New Cocktails

Spirit-forward and bittersweet with the tang of arrack, laced with gin. Perhaps best served on-the-rocks as an arrack-influenced riff on a Negroni.

Wakey, wakey! Fernet replaces rum in this falernum-influenced Daiquiri-like cocktail to enliven your taste buds.

A tequila-based riff on the gin-based Army & Navy with a hint of ginger heat.

A floral elderflower-influenced riff on a Last Word.

This sporty lovechild of a Negroni and Martinez has plenty of vrooom with fruity bittersweetness.

Like some journalists I've met, this cocktail is classically bitter and sour. Hence, I balanced with an optional splash of sugar syrup, which I've...

Zingy, sweet and sour, fruity and bourbon-laced. The sugar syrup is my own addition, and depending on your lemons and tastes, you may want to either...

Gin-laced with clove spice, apricot and orange fruitiness.

Something of a holiday disco drink, but tasty all the same.

A bergamot rosolio-influenced riff on a White Negroni.

My favourite way to enjoy Chartreuse. Especially good when made with V.E.P. Chartreuse. Use equal parts of each liqueur or use more of the stronger...

Tequila, vanilla and orange topped with luxuriant cream.

Rum is the most exciting and diverse spirits category, offering clear, clean, light, delicate rums through to dark, full-bodied, pungent estery rums...

The Boulevardier goes nuclear. I discovered this cocktail thanks to J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails, who says, "This is truly excellent, though it...

A bittersweet mezcal-based sour, which, as the name suggests, is pink, and depending on your mezcal, delicately smoky.

Sip through layers of bitter stout and Irish whiskey-laced raspberry sour.

Spirit-forward and bittersweet, this is a very tasty digestivo or late-night tipple.

A variation on PDT's Newark Cocktail, the Lakeshore is a delicious spirit-forward, herbal, fresh, bittersweet aperitivo or cleansing late-night...

As the name suggests, this rum-laced riff on an Espresso Martini benefits from a splash of stout.

Best described as a "bright, bittersweet Manhattan." Perhaps more a digestivo than a Manhattan to close the night with.

Gin-laced and bittersweet. Reminiscent of Becherovka and tonic.

Creamy cream of soda-like coconut and pineapple with sherry providing rich depth of flavour.

Valentine's Day cocktail names tend to be as corny as the Valentine's cards, and due to strawberries being uncannily heart-shaped, many Valentine's...

Blue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao...