Join me on a journey to master the world of cocktails—whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or a complete novice, my cocktail guide will become your ultimate companion in creating effortless cocktails.
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🍹 Guide to getting started with cocktails
📑 Curated collection of 125 cocktail recipes
📷 Full page photos & a video for every recipe
✔️ Learn about cocktail families and templates to enable you to create better drinks.
✔️ Discover the essential ingredients and techniques to improve the quality of your cocktails.
✔️ Learn the fundamentals of mixed drinks from shaking & straining to chilling & dilution.
✔️ Become the life of the party by recreating cocktails from the 125 featured recipes.
✔️ Every cocktail features a full page photo and a step by step video linked via QR code.
Learn the fundamentals of making cocktails. Start with a brief history of cocktails, master cocktail templates and discover the bottles, barware and equipment needed to make great drinks.
Make your way through 125 modern and classic cocktail recipes. Each including the drink's background, a stunning full-page photo and QR code linking to a step by step video.
Originally, the Smash family of cocktails was only a step away from the Julep family, with the main difference being the addition of garnishes. Modern versions of the Smash have evolved significantly and often contain citrus in the form of muddled lemon or lemon juice and herbs such as mint or basil. Today, a Smash is more reminiscent of a Whiskey Sour than a Julep.
3-4 mint leaves
0.5 lemon, cut into quarters
2 oz (60 ml) bourbon whiskey
0.75 oz (22.5 ml) simply syrup
The Jungle Bird saw a resurgence in popularity when Giuseppe Gonzalez adapted and revived the drink whilst working at Painkiller in New York in the mid-2000s. His recipe reduced the amount of pineapple juice and specified blackstrap rum as the rum of choice. The drink was originally served in a porcelain bird-shaped vessel but is now commonly served in an old-fashioned glass.
1.5 oz (45 ml) dark Jamaican rum or blackstrap rum
0.75 oz (22.5 ml) Campari
1.5 oz (45 ml) pineapple juice
0.5 oz (15 ml) lime juice
0.5 oz (15 ml) simple syrup
The Artichoke Hold was created by Jeremy Oertel from the Brooklyn cocktail bar Donna. It's a classic riff on one of his other creations, the Bitter Mai Tai, which in turn is a riff on a classic Mai Tai. The funkiness of the Smith & Cross rum creates the base whilst the Cynar and elderflower liqueur add an interesting bittersweet combination of flavours.
0.75 oz (22.5 ml) aged Jamaican rum (Smith & Cross)
0.75 oz (22.5 ml) Cynar
0.5 oz (15 ml) St-Germain elderflower liqueur
0.75 oz (22.5 ml) lime juice
0.5 oz (15 ml) orgeat)
The East 8 Hold Up was created by Kevin Armstrong, a bartender at London's Milk & Honey, in 2010. Kevin and a friend were returning home one evening through the E8 area of London, when his friend was mugged with his pants down. They nicknamed the mugging the East 8 Hold Up, which later gave inspiration to the drink.
1.5 oz (45 ml) vodka
0.5 oz (15 ml) Aperol
0.75 oz (22.5 ml) pineapple juice
0.5 oz (15 ml) lime juice
0.5 oz (15 ml) simple syrup
1 tsp (5 ml) passion fruit syrup
✔️ Introduction & a brief history of cocktails
✔️ Cocktail timeline & templates
✔️ Getting started: stocking your bar, DIY syrups and mixers
✔️ Bar tools, glassware and equipment
✔️ Essential and advanced techniques
✔️ Cocktail menus designed for entertaining
✔️ 125 curated cocktail recipes (sort by liquor category)
✔️ Alphabetical cocktail list & ingredient index
✔️ Full page photos for EVERY cocktail recipe
✔️ Step by step video for EVERY recipe linked via QR code
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