A Liquor Cabinet is not a privilege, it is a right.
Times are tough, days are long and you deserve a rest.
With higher tax on alcohol, more people are drinking at home these days, as an alternative or a precursor to a night on the town. Alcohol in excess is undeniably unhealthy and I’m not promoting it on-record (Off-the-record we can discuss it at length in the pub). But if you are going to drink, why not slosh some class in your highball?
Here are a few simple cocktails to lubricate your soirée
Godfather
an easy classy standard, good to ease you into your liquor
1 part Amaretto (best: Disaronno)
1 part Scotch Wiskey
Garnish: Orange peel
pour the wiskey first, add the amaretto and swirl
Cosmopolitan
an effeminate and fundamental accessory
2 parts Vodka (best: Absolut)
1 part Triple Sec (best: Cointreau)
1 part Lime juice
2 parts Cranberry juice
Garnish: slice of Lemon
cocktail shake it
G & T
surprisingly fruity take on the traditional
1 part Gin (Hendricks)
3 parts Tonic Water
Garnish: wedge of Cucumber
pour the gin first, add the tonic and swirl. Hendricks a must.
Chilli and Ginger Martini
my favourite cocktail, as served at Bacchanalia, see below for more
3 parts Gin (best: Bombay Sapphire)
1 part dry Vermouth (best: Noily Prat)
Garnish: sweetened stem of Ginger and hot Chilli Pepper
pour into separate glass to mix and strain over the ginger in the cocktail glass. Rest the chilli pepper on the lip of the glass, allowing the cocktail to absorb the heat.
made the way they should be made, as I drank them in Cuba
4 parts Rum (best: Havana Club Añejo 3 Años)
3 parts lime juice
Tonic Water and Sugar to taste
Garnish: Mint leaves
pour the rum, then lime over the rocks, add the mint leaves (do not crush) and the tonic water. Stir. Fall madly in love.
If these libations aren’t a cause for celebration, we are at odds.
All these and more are served to an excellent standard at Manchester
Your tongue should never suffer the blows your brain gallantly endures. Thanks, brain.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
ReplyDeleteOver many a quaint and curious whiskies of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my liquor cabinet door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my liquor cabinet door
And unless they've brought a mint plant and some nuts they can naff off"
Quoth the Raven
Presently my spirits grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
ReplyDelete`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your beverages I implore;
But the fact is I was drinking, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my liquor cabinet door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Whiskey there, and nothing more.