Cocktail Detour (Page 56)

Le Coquetiez Du Lion

Apparently the house cocktail of Bar Le Lion in Hamburg, Le Coquetiez Du Lion is as simple to make as it is delicious to drink. We love cocktails like this, few and available ingredients, but still a stunning end result. Its colour is so delicate, and all that fruit from the Lillet combined with the stiff gin, proves that the final mix can be even greater than its good parts. Le Coquetiez Du Lion Recipe Ingredients: 1,75 oz Lillet Blanc 1 oz gin 3 dashes Peychaud bitters Mixing: Stir with fr

Cocktail gin

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Jan 23, 2018 — 1 min read

The Last Word

We have barrel aged a two liter batch of The Last Word since a few weeks, and now it's time for a first taste. What we immediately noticed is how the green colour, from the Chartreuse, has somehow faded a bit. We'll never find out if the inside of our barrel is now completely green, but nevermind. What's happened flavour wise is that the sweetness from the Chartreuse and the Maraschino liqueur has somehow decreased a bit, and instead the whole cocktail feels slightly stiffer and boozier. It's d

Cocktail gin

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Jan 21, 2018 — 1 min read

Monferrato

The Monferrato by Leo Robitschek is a rose coloured sparkling cocktail that tastes gorgeous. It's those few drops of Peychaud that colours the cocktail so nicely, also contributing with a lot of flavour. This is actually one of the cocktails we had on our New Years Eve celebrations. The cocktails are partially shot outside, in the dark and cold just hours before 2017 turned into 2018. It was the perfect festive cocktail for such an occasion. Monferrato Recipe Ingredients: 3 dashes Angostura b

champagne cocchi americano

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Jan 19, 2018 — 1 min read

A(i)nt no S(c)herry

A(i)nt no S(c)herry - that's what we decided to call this Cocktail Detour original. It takes full advantage of the deliciousness of Maraschino liqueur and cherries as well as dry sherry. And as we couldn't resist having some worker ants deliver the cherries, the name of the cocktail was quite obvious in the end. This drink really bursts with cherry flavour. It's fresh, fruity and easy to drink. As there is also Champagne in the mix you get the sparkles and that tingling sensation as well. Comp

Cocktail elderflower liqueur

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Jan 17, 2018 — 1 min read

Mestizo

We are quite excited about new book “Do It The French Way” by Daniel Gaujac. This book covers five of France's most iconic apereitifs; Byrrh, Suze, Ricard, Lillet and Pernod Absinthe. While not being a recipe book per se, it rather covers the history of these spirits, accompanied with some gorgeous photographs. There's also a lot of vintage barware in the photos, if you just like us think that's intriguing. However, the second part of the book are interviews with some of the world's best barten

aperol Cocktail

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Jan 15, 2018 — 1 min read

Black Manhattan

The Black Manhattan, from Bourbon and Branch [http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/] in San Francisco, is an amaro-driven riff of the classic Manhattan cocktail. Swapping the regular sweet vermouth for herbal amaro Averna creates this deep, dark brown, boozy and spicy cocktail that will appeal both to lovers of whiskey as well as amari fans. The recipe for this gem of a cocktail we found in Brad Thomas Parsons's book Amaro [http://amzn.to/2wHrzqO]. It's filled with several other tempting amari re

Cocktail amaro averna

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Jan 13, 2018 — 1 min read

Manhattan

Manhattan - one of the most iconic cocktails ever - finally featured in our feed for the very first time. A cocktail doesn't get more simple and yet refined at the same time. If you don't count the bitters, this is a two ingredients only cocktail, made with whiskey and sweet vermouth. The dashes of bitters are essential though and the cocktail would not be the same without them. We like to stir this classic for a rather long time, say at least a minute. Two things will then happen; the cocktai

angostura bitters bourbon

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Jan 11, 2018 — 1 min read

The Invisible Skier

Okay, let's Tiki the Snow Away! We decided to call this original cocktail The Invisible Skier. It's a milk cocktail gone vegan as we used almond milk as the base. We then made a banana nut bread syrup out of the very same tea from DAVIDsTEA. To really give the cocktail a tiki kick we used Smith & Cross's tropical tasting rum, and to enhance the almond notes we added a small amount of Amaretto. This is a cocktail on the sweeter side. However as the sweetness is coming from almonds, banana and o

Cocktail Amaretto

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Jan 9, 2018 — 1 min read