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Penicillin cocktail

Smoke and honey with subtle spice and plenty of Scottish attitude.

Perfectly Straight Blood & Sand

I'm usually a maximum of five ingredients in a cocktail kind-a-guy but this Blood & Sand riff with seven ingredients is balanced and tasty. If I were in

Bitter Jean

Scotch malt whisky, and particularly Islay single malt balance and work brilliantly with rich crème de cassis and Antica Formula, helped by a generous

Blood and Sand (Difford's recipe)

The equal parts (scotch, cherry brandy, sweet vermouth and orange juice) formula from the 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book is the accepted classic Blood &

Smoked Old Fashioned Godfather

A quartet of whiskies: bourbon, rye, blended Scotch and Islay single malt, stirred with, and lightly sweetened and flavoured by amaretto liqueur. The result

Smokey Joe

Sake sweetened with Sauternes and flavoured with cognac and Islay whisky.

Smoky Martini

Smoky Islay malt combines with London dry gin to give a smoky, almost sweet character to a traditional Dry Martini.

Three Storms Flip

Peat smoky whisky subtly influences this complex and silky-smooth rum flip.

100 Year Old Cigar

Stirred down and boozy so suited to late night sipping. This cocktail has broader appeal when served on-the-rocks in an old-fashioned glass, either way

Amaro-etti Biscotti (barrel aged)

Cognac, amaretto and amaro aromatised with vanilla bitters and Islay single malt.

Amber Nectar

Honey lifts and enhances this blend of scotch, single Islay malt and dry vermouth.

Bloody Blood & Sand

A Blood & Sand with the smoky influence of Islay single malt whisky and the rounding citrus notes of blood orange juice.

Denny & Eleni

Named after Denny Kallivoka and Eleni Nikoloulia, our favourite Greek drinks writers, this whisky based cocktail has a healthy glug of mastiha with birch

Esmeralda cocktail

Cachaça, lime and elderflower with a smoky hit of Islay whisky.

Fumigator Flip

Smoky Islay malt adds a distinctive aroma and flavour to this appropriately named cocktail with cherry fruitiness and smoothing egg yolk.

Grosvenor cocktail

On the bitter side of bittersweet this is a great aperitif cocktail.

Holy Smokes No.1

Bourbon-laced and spirit-forward but mellowed by bittersweet amaro and herbal liqueur with a hint of Islay smokiness.

Homely Smoke

Honey and amaretto’s rich almond flavours brilliantly balance and marry with cognac and Islay single malt whisky.

Islay Old Fashioned

Islay single malt is for many the king of all whiskies so it should be celebrated in more cocktails – particularly Old Fashioneds.

Jack Pot

Creating this cocktail started with a desire to make a properly British cocktail to toast those special occasions when a fellow Brit wins a sporting event.