Cocktails under 'Alcohol cocktails'
This beautiful ocean - blue cocktail makes your mouth water before it even reaches your lips! It brims with exotic fruits and has just a subtle hint of coconut. Wonderful!
INGREDIENTS:
- 30ml (1 oz) white rum
- 30ml (1 oz) blue curacao
- 30ml (1 oz) cream of coconut
- 60ml (2 oz) freshly pressed pineapple juice
EQUIPMENT:
- Blender
- Strainer
- Highball glass
MIXING METHOD:
Put some ice in your blender and pour in rum, curacao, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice. Whizz until smooth. Strain into a highball, garnish with a cherry on a stick, and serve with a straw.
June 5th, 2008
Created in 1879 to celebrate the opening of Myer’s rum distillery in Jamaica, this delicious, deep orangey-red cocktail is able to balance the strong flavours of dark rum with sweetness from the sugar and grenadine, herbiness from the bitters, and citrus from the lime.
INGREDIENTS:
- 45ml (1 1/2 oz) Myer’s dark rum
- 15ml (1/2 oz) freshly squeezed lime juice
- 30ml (1 oz) sugar syrup
- Dash grenadine
- Few drops Angostura bitters
- Soda water to fill
EQUIPMENT:
- Shaker
- Strainer
- Highball glass
MIXING METHOD:
Fill the shaker with ice and pour in all the ingredients except the soda. Shake well and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Top with soda water, and garnish with a sprig of mint in the glass and a slice of orange on the rim.
June 5th, 2008
This is the ultimate party cocktail, though a few too many could make for a stormy night! Despite its name, this cocktail does not contain tea. Every bartender has their own twist on the recipe - some take out the tequila, but double the quantity of vodka; some do the opposite. Whatever the precise mix, the flavours that come through are of the exotic orange from the Cointreau and the citrus characters of the gin and lime juice; the other ingredients provide a mellow alcoholic backdrop.
INGREDIENTS:
- 10ml (1/3 oz) white rum
- 10ml (1/3 oz) gin
- 10ml (1/3 oz) vodka
- 10ml (1/3 oz) Cointreau
- 10ml (1/3 oz) tequila
- Chilled cola to fill
- Freshly squeezed juice of one lime
EQUIPMENT:
- Stirring spoon
- Highball glass
MIXING METHOD:
Pour all the spirits and the lime juice into the highball glass and stir well. Fill with ice cubes and stir well again, and then top with chilled cola. Garnish the cocktail with wedges of lime inside the glass, and perhaps a wheel of lime on the rim of the glass.
June 5th, 2008
This Cuban classic, thought to have been created at Sloppy Joe’s bar in Havana in 1900s, was a favourite of the writer Ernest Hemingway. Tall, cool, fresh, and minty, the key to this drink is the partnership between the rum and the lime tang. Wonderful!
INGREDIENTS:
- 4 leaves fresh mint
- Freshly squeezed juice of half a lime
- 45ml (1 1/2 oz) Bacardi white rum
- 210ml (7 oz) soda water
- 2 tsps sugar
EQUIPMENT:
- Stirring spoon
- Muddler
- Highball glass
MIXING METHOD:
Muddle the mint leaves in the highball; add the juice and sugar, and lots of crushed ice. Pour in the rum. Stir well and top with soda. Garnish with a wedge of lime and a sprig of mint.
June 5th, 2008
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