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2019 Predictions

What drinking trends are on the horizon?

Julep Cocktails

Juleps are tall drinks served over crushed ice and based on a spirit, liqueur, wine or fortified wine. They are most often served with fresh mint in julep

Gentian cocktails – the world's 100 best

Continuing my quest, I'm sampling 100s of gentian liqueur cocktails to boost the number of tasty drinks using Suze on Difford’s Guide and for a cocktail

Monin Sugar Free Sweetener Syrup

A zero sugar sweetener alternative to sugar syrup designed to be used in low-calorie cocktails or to sweeten coffee. This sweetener has a sweetness roughly equal to 2 parts sugar...

No sugar & low-calorie (no & low) cocktails

Frustratingly alcohol is calorific with your average spirit coming in at approx. 65 calories per 30ml (1oz). Start adding sweet liqueurs and sugar syrups

World's top 100 cocktails

As in previous years, the following ‘Top 100 Cocktails from 2018’ are mainly based on the number of visits to individual cocktail pages on this website

Bitters – Daiquiri & Margarita Bitters

With the cocktail renaissance came bartenders rediscovery of aromatic bitters, their use driven by calls for drips and dashes in dusty old books. Back

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How to open a bottle of champagne & sabrage

Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right, said Mark Twain, and he was bang-on. Champagne is our go-to drink for celebrations,

The Dead Rabbit Mixology & Mayhem

Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry, founders of award-winning bar The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog, alongside esteemed bar manager Jillian Vose, present their second cocktail book and...

Champagne Cocktails

Cocktails are intrinsically decadent, but those with champagne are also lavish, invigorating and celebratory. Usually the most expensive drinks on cocktail

Cheryl Charming

“I’m not a real writer, yet, I have published 16 books,” says Cheryl Charming, the bar director at Bourbon O Bar in New Orleans, who has just released

Flip cocktails

A flip is a cocktail containing egg (whole egg or just yolk), sugar and a spirit or fortified wine. They are similar to Egg Nogs but while Egg Nogs contain

Douglas Ankrah

“The guy who created the Caesar salad never saw any money; the guy who created the Espresso Martini never saw any money,” says Douglas Ankrah, founder

Trends - Drink trends predicted

Gin, Porn Star Martinis, Espresso Martinis, Negronis, reusable drinking straws and ridiculously overpriced soft drinks masquerading as spirits are already

Acids & cocktails

It’s time to talk about acids. As you progress and flourish, it’s only natural to want to experiment, and I’d rather you did so in a safe circumstance

José Luis León & 1964 - one of Heering's 200 years

For José Luis León, presiding deity at Mexico City’s Licorería Limantour, 1964 resonates as the year his mother was born.

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