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Jam, jelly and marmalade cocktails

20 of our favourites, from the Breakfast Martini to an Orchard Crush...

Double Black

Adapted from a recipe created in 2019 Wilson Hernandez at El Del Frente, Havana, Cuba.

Highballs

The term highball appears to have emerged during the 1890s with the first known written mention appearing in a play, My Friend From India by Ha Du Souchet

Tayer + Elementary

At first glance, this is yet another brutalist Shoreditch/Hoxton/Old Street bar with bare concrete, exposed aircon ducking and raw steel trunking. But

Joe Schofield

“When you get recognition from your peers it is incredibly humbling,” says Joe Schofield, the award-winning bartender rising to the top. Since his

Singapore Sling (Dale DeGroff's recipe)

We're indebted to Dale DeGroff for sharing this recipe, which he, in turn, was given by a former bartender at Singapore's Raffles Hotel. For more Singapore

Singapore Sling

Convention has it that the Singapore Sling was created sometime between 1899 and 1915 by Chinese-born Ngiam Tong Boon at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel,

Masterclass with Libbey: The Glass is the Link

Join Kevin Vollebregt, brand ambassador from Libbey Glass Europe, and bar manager Matt Linklater from acclaimed bar Black Pearl in Melbourne, at an exclusive

Bartenders' guide to foraging: Blackberries

'Blackberrying' is a long-held British pastime and the familiar hedgerow fruits evoke memories of childhood summers berry-picking in the countryside. The

Patrón Estate Release

After entering the Hacienda Patrón estate, you drive past an agave field as you approach the distillery and this very limited-edition tequila is made

Gran Patrón Smoky Tequila

Made using a baking process usually more associated with mezcal, Patrón Smoky starts with roasting 2 tonnes of agave piñas with mesquite in small underground

Tequila

The origins of tequila date back to around 250-300 A.D. when the Aztec Indians first fermented the juice of the agave to produce their ceremonial wine,

Black Tears cacao & coffee spiced rum

Based on Cuban rum flavoured with Cuban grown coffee, cacao and Ají dulce peppers to produce a distinctively Cuban spiced rum, set apart from other spiced

Daiquiri cocktail

My quest to find the perfect Daiquiri and the recipe to replicate it started in 1997 when Dick Bradsell, England’s most famous bartender, said I needed

Barka Irsai Oliver Grape

The fresh juice of Hungarian Irsai Oliver grapes are slow fermented in temperature-controlled tanks and the wine produced then distilled in a hybrid copper

Joe Gilmore

Joe Gilmore, the former head barman of The American Bar at The Savoy Hotel, sadly passed away just before Christmas 2015 at the age of 93. We were lucky

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