Sugarplum

Sugarplum

Three ingredients. That's all it takes to make the Sugarplum by Joseph Schwartz. The marriage between the bitter grapefruit juice and the super sweet grenadine syrup is very successful. And when also the generous splash of gin gets involved an adorable cocktail is literally born. As there's only three ingredients in it, your choice of gin matters. It's completely up to you if you wanna go floral, citrusy or maybe spicy. Sugarplum Recipe Ingredients: 2 oz gin 1 oz grapefruit juice 0,5 oz gren
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Bicycle Thief

Bicycle Thief

Bicycle Thief - is what Zachary Gelnaw-Rubin and Abraham Hawkins call this joint-effort creation. There are quite a few ingredients in the drink, so measuring it up is a bit time consuming. Take your time though and be accurate as the ratio between the ingredients is quite delicate. The ruby red coloured cocktail you end up with is not only beautiful but also very delicious. It's relatively bitter with all that gin, Campari and grapefruit juice but it is of course nicely countered by the simpl
campari Cocktail
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Ephemeral

Ephemeral

The Ephemeral by David Shenaut is an interesting riff of a classic Martini cocktail. By using Old Tom Gin rather than regular gin, and by adding elderflower liqueur this cocktail gets significantly less dry than the original. But then there's also the single dash of celery bitters that is surprisingly much noticeable in the final outcome. We love clear cocktails like this one. What might look like a coupe of water immediately surprises you on the first sip. The Ephemeral is boozy, sweet and ear
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Cuzco

Cuzco

An almost metallic flavour is what you get if you shake up a Cuzco cocktail by Julie Reiner. The combination of Pisco, grapefruit juice and Aperol is so spectacular, but hard to describe, that you have to try this cocktail to understand what happened in the shaker. The Aperol colours the drink in a very nice way. This subtle pale orange tone is so flattering to any cocktail, it looks immediately delicious we think. Cuzco Recipe Ingredients: 2 oz Pisco 0,75 oz Aperol 0,75 oz simple syrup 0,5 o
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The Stark

The Stark

This is The Stark, as commented upon by Carolyn Gil in Sasha Petraske's “Regarding Cocktails”. It's one of the most beautiful and philosophical cocktail books out there according to us. Most cocktails in the book are relatively simple when it comes to number and type of ingredients, equipment required and preparation time needed. However this doesn't mean the cocktails are less interesting, it's rather the other way around. The Stark is a good example of this. A bourbon driven recipe, sweetened
angostura bitters bourbon
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Into Great Silence

Into Great Silence

We'll say it straight away. This recipe is slightly more complicated and time consuming than the typical recipe in our feed. The cocktail by JP Fetherston is called Into Great Silence and it's one of the most smashing cocktails we've ever made. Drink your greens some say, and it is exactly what this cocktail enables. Because the first thing you need to do before mixing this cocktail is to make a “jus vert” which is basically a slightly sweetened green vegetable juice made of spinach, parsley a
Cocktail green chartreuse
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Captain Ron

Captain Ron

Our families know us too well. Among the Christmas presents we recently got were Kara Newman's new book “Road Soda” and a beautiful flask from Rabbit. Wanting to put these thoughtful gifts into immediate use we made a Captain Ron cocktail from Kara's book. This drink, adapted by John Henderson, is supposed to be served at room temperature making it ideal to store in a flask and enjoy even when there is not a fridge or ice around. Consuming a cocktail at room temperature might seem strange to b
amaro averna aperol
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Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air

Finally we were able to get a bottle of Italicus, and we are trying it in cocktail Into Thin Air by Lucinda Sterling. Here it is mixed with Irish whiskey (we used Jameson), fresh lemon juice and tonic water. First of all we tried the Italicus neat. It's sweet, fruity and citrus driven. Very refreshing, with a certain bitterness going on in the background. Worth mentioning is the low ABV. At only 20 % this is almost more like a dessert wine, and to us that means it's the perfect cocktail ingredi
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