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Cocktail of the Day
30th of August 2025
Today is Angostura Bitters' Birthday, so we are drinking a Dunmore Cobbler.
20 best Angostura Bitters cocktails
I've heard it said, You can tell a newly opened cocktail bar is successful when they need a second bottle of Angostura. Over 500 cocktails on this website
Gaberdine
Spirit-forward, bittersweet and herbal.
Fair & Warmer No. 1
Sloe gin adds a touch of fruitiness to this delicately herbal, vinous aperitivo.
Amalfi Spritz
A refreshing, delicately bittersweet and sweet 'n' sour, more interesting take on a Limoncello Spritz.
Fab Fortified Four
Layers of vinous complexity and with richness balanced by delicate acidity and bitterness.
Italian Gentleman
The Boulevardier meets the Whiskey Sour.
Bitter Swagger
Suitably bitter with herbal notes freshened and lifted by lemon and pisco.
Silvio's Consoler
Rye whiskey underpins an interplay between herbal and zesty citrus flavours.
Banana Spider
A banana-flavoured riff on a Pisco Sour.
Real Lemonade
The classic English summertime refresher.
Snyder Martini
A 2:1 Dry Martini but with a splash of orange curaçao mellowing the dryness and adding more subtle complexity than orange bitters.
Odessa
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.
A Farewell to Arms No. 1
Wakey, wakey! Fernet replaces rum in this falernum-influenced Daiquiri-like cocktail to enliven your taste buds.
Mexico Navy
A tequila-based riff on the gin-based Army & Navy with a hint of ginger heat.
Lumière
A floral elderflower-influenced riff on a Last Word.
Alfa-Romeo
This sporty lovechild of a Negroni and Martinez has plenty of vrooom with fruity bittersweetness.
Journalist
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 increased
