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The Old-Fashioned is delightfully simple, just whiskey, sugar, bitters and dilution from melting ice. That's three ingredients that can be swapped out - a different spirit base, a liqueur or flavoured ...

Vermouth is a fortified wine, part of the 'aromatised' wine family, flavoured with botanicals-aromatic herbs, spices, roots, seeds, fruits, and flowers. Traditionally, vermouth is distinguished from ...

While the exact origins of the Mojito cocktail and its name are lost in time, some trace it back to 1586 and a medicinal drink named after Sir Francis Drake. Francis Drake was one of a band of ...

The name coconut comes from 'coco', the Portuguese word for head or skull, and despite the name, is a fruit rather than a nut.

Glowing red, the Negroni manages to be both sophisticated and simple at the same time and is definitely for a grown-up palate - for many it's simply too Enjoy a Negroni at any time. This recipe is ...

The Dry Martini, a blend of dry gin (or vodka) with a hint of dry vermouth and perhaps orange bitters is one of the quickest and simplest cocktails to make. However, due to the myriad of different ...

Distillation does not produce alcohol, it merely concentrates it. To produce a distilled spirit you need to start with an alcoholic liquid ('wash') to distil your spirit from. The majority of vodkas ...

The history of Bombay Gins stretches back to 1760 just after the repeal of the Corn Laws, when a 24-year-old Thomas Dakin built his distillery on Bridge Street in Warrington, north-west England. Due ...

The name coconut comes from 'coco', the Portuguese word for head or skull, and despite the name, is a fruit rather than a nut.

The combination of base spirit, water, sugar and citrus mean that a sour is basically a scaled-down punch. Punch is the earliest form of cocktail [see history of punch] and due to the similarity in ...

As with most pastimes, a bewildering array of bartending equipment is available but watch a bartender at work and you'll find they use few pieces of equipment. The majority of cocktails need either ...