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  • Trendy Gin

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    From the days when British colonies introduced tonic water with the combination of quinine & carbonated water as a way to ward of  malaria & added a wee of gin, thereby giving rise to the popular Gin & Tonic, the gin has travelled a long way.
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    McDowell”s Blue Riband Dry Gin has been in India since 1950s &  must say still a very popular brand.  In the past, most of the gin cocktails would invariably have Blue Riband as it’s base. Well with passing years, the pubs started seeing wave of new gin labels such as Hapusa, Greater Than, Stranger & Sons, Jaisalmer crafted by entrepreneurs. The trend of gin culture made a big shout & the counters started pelting some amazing cocktails right from G&T to Martini to Negroni to Gimlet to Tom Collins & many more.

    Here is one simple gin cocktail made with the popular Blue Riband Gin
    Ingredients
    Gin – 45 ml
    Lemon juice – 15 ml
    Triple Sec – 15 ml
    Soda – to top
    Orange wheel, Pepper & Cloves to add a wee tangy spice of life.

    Preparation Method

    Combine all, except soda, and give a wee shake with some ice. Strain it in a cocktail glass with ice cubes & release some pepper & cloves as well the orange wheel & top it up with Soda.

    I also take this opportunity to make a mention that I have been following my friend Morten Krag – @thecocktail.blog for a couple of year & have been mesmerised by his amazing cocktails. He has since released his Cocktail Recipe book – “Sophistication Declassified” & I am looking forward to get one of it soon. Congratulations Morten!

    Cheers!

  • Penicillin Cocktail

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    Penicillin Cocktail

    Originally created by New York Bartender Sam Ross, the Penicillin Cocktail comes with a mellow flavors of honey, fresh ginger & lemon juice. The punch is added with a heavy dose of scotch whisky & the drink is topped with a thin pour of Islay malt. However, I have my twist to it. I used the George Dickel Tennessee Whisky & a part of Single Malt Scotch for the shake. For the float the Monkey Shoulder which is a blend of single malts from three famous speyside distilleries🥃🥃🥃
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    Ingredients
    Whisky – 45 ml @georgedickel
    Fresh Lemon juice – 20 ml
    Honey Syrup – 20 ml
    2 Fresh ginger pieces
    Single Malt Scotch – 20 ml @monkeyshoulder
    Bitters – a dash @angosturahouse
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    Preparation Method

    Muddle the fresh ginger in the bottom of a cocktail shaker until it is well mashed. Add the Tennessee Whisky, 10ml of Single Malt Scotch,  Lemon juice, and Honey syrup, and fill the shaker with ice. Shake until well chilled. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Add a dash of bitters followed by the remaining 10 ml Single Malt Scotch over the top. Garnish with honeyed ginger or candied gooseberry 
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    Cheers!

  • Maple Jamun Margarita

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    Maple Jamun Margarita

    Ingredients

    Tequila – 60 ml Don Alejandro Blanco
    Orange Liqueur – 25 ml @cointreau
    Whiskey – 20 ml @jackdaniels_us
    Lemon juice – 25 ml
    Jamun fruit – half a dozen
    Cocktail lime wedges
    Salt – to rim
    Ice cubes

    Preparation Method

    Take a tall glass. Rim it with lemon & salt. Combine tequila, orange liqueur & lemon juice over ice cubes and stir well. Add more ice cubes & intersperse jamun & lemon wedges and stir more. To finish, float the Maple Charcoal filtered whiskey. Sip & Sip & Sip the cool Margarita & Relax
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    Don Alejandro Blanco Tequila with a 40% abv & falls under the classification of ‘Mixto tequila’ which requires minimum 51% agave. This one  comes with 75% Agave. With subtle vegetal elements, white pepper, floral aroma & vanilla flavour it is a good selection  for margaritas more coz of  it’s 75%Agave profile
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    Jack Daniel Whiskey from Tennessee with a mashbill of 80% corn, 12% rye, 8% malt is a spirit which is filtered through sugar maple charcoal to produce a mellow slightly smoky character. At 40%abv , it’s mellow smoky character fits in right as a floater to finish the cocktail. Simply amazing 🥃

    Cointreau with 40% abv a well known liqueur to several well-known cocktails. It was originally called “Curaçao Blanco Triple Sec”. A must for classic margaritas 🥂
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    Jamun is a berry type fruit from tropical evergreen tree which comes with a taste profile that is a combination of sweet, mildly sour and astringent flavour. It goes great with salt. Being a seasonal fruit, I thought to give it a try in my drink. With few slits, the fruit went in the drink leaving it’s sweet & sour flavour to the drink Check out pic 4 of the image slide

    Cheers!

  • Vanilla Bean & Fig Cocktail

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    Vanilla Bean & Fig Cocktail

    Got some fresh figs from the market. Surfed for some fig cocktails. Found this wonderful Fig & Vanilla Cocktail by @platingsandpairings
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    Made with vodka and a vanilla bean & fig simple syrup. Though, suggested to combine it with soda water, I thought of Brut to get a nice fizz
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    This recipe calls for simple sugar syrup which is infused with chopped fresh figs & cut vanilla bean & set to rest before being  strained & ready to use
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    Ingredients

    Absolut Vodka – 60 ml
    Fig & Vanilla Bean Simple Syrup – 15 ml
    Lemon juice – 5 ml
    Brut sparkling wine – to top it
    Ice
    Fresh figs for garnish


    Preparation Method

    Add vodka, simple syrup and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake it well and strain into cocktail glass with a couple of ice cubes. Top with Brut & garnish with fig
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    Sip & enjoy the fizzy brut vodka with the flavours of vanilla & fig to finish.

    Cheers!

  • Hot Frozen Margarita

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    Hot Frozen Margarita

    Ingredients

    Tequila – 60 ml @donalejandro
    Orange Liqueur – 30 ml @grandmarnierofficial
    Dark Rum – 10 ml @bacardi
    Lemon juice – 30 ml
    Green chilli
    Crushed ice

    Preparation Method

    Use Boston Shaker to shake tequila, liqueur, lemon juice with ice. Pour it over crushed ice in a Margarita cocktail glass half rimmed with lemon & salt. Gently release dark rum. Float a lemon ring and a slit hot green chilli. Stir the concoction with slit chilli as you sip on the Frozen Margarita.
    Cheers 🥂
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    Margarita is often hailed as the quintessential “Mexican” cocktail.
    Carlos “Danny” Herrera, owner of Tijuana restaurant Rancho La Gloria, claims he invented the drink in 1938. .
    Dallas socialite Margarita Sames insisted that she concocted the drink for a group of her friends while vacationing in Acapulco in 1948.
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    Story also goes that in 1941, bartender Don Carlos Orozco was tending bar in Ensenada, Mexico. While, he was futzing around making cocktails, Margarita Henkel, daughter of a German ambassador, walked into his bar. He allowed her to taste his experiment and coined the drink in her honor.
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    Danny Negrete is also named as inventor of the drink. Apparently, the cocktail was a wedding gift for his sister-in-law, yep another Margarita, bestowed upon her at the Garci Crespo Hotel. Interestingly enough, Negrete worked at Agua Cliente Race Track, where starlet Margarita Cansino (you might know her as Rita Hayworth) would often perform.
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    However the margarita may not be named after a beautiful woman at all, but instead may just be a variation of another cocktail that was popular during Prohibition: the Daisy. In fact, margarita means “daisy” in Spanish. The only difference between the Daisy and the margarita is that the former was made with brandy and the latter with tequila.

    Cheers!

  • Lemon Grass Feni Martini

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    Lemon Grass Feni Martini

    Ingredients

    Feni – 60 ml @cazulo_premium_feni Dukshiri
    Orange liqueur – 30 ml @grandmarnierofficial
    Lemon juice – 20 ml
    Lemon grass – an inch stalk
    Lemon wedges – 02 wedges .

    Preparation Method Combine lemon juice, lemon wedges, lemon grass stalk & muddle it gently in a mixing glass. Add Feni & the Orange liqueur along with six ice cubes. Stir for around 2 minutes till the ice melts. Double strain in a Martini glass. Garnish it with lemon grass twig. Enjoy & explore the flavours as they come alive in your palate.

    Cheers!

  • Long Island Iced Tea

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    Long Island Iced Tea

    Robert “Rosebud” Butt is the personality who appears to have invented the Long Island Iced Tea as an entry in a contest to create a new mixed drink with triple sec in 1972 while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, New York.
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    Variation to the Long Island is the Purple Rain, which uses the same mix as a Long Island but the Triple Sec is replaced with a shot of raspberry liqueur and the cola replaced with lemonade.

    Ingredients
    Tequila – 15 ml @reposado
    Vodka – 15 ml@absolutvodka_gallery
    Gin – 15 ml @gordonsginuk
    Rum – 15 ml @bacardi
    Orange Liqueur – 10 ml
    Lemon juice – 10 ml
    Cola – to top up @cocacola
    Preparation Method
    Pour lemon juice & orange liqueur in a Collin glass. Stir. Top it up with ice. Add the famous fours.
    Stir. Top it up with Cola & garnish with fresh mint leaves. Enjoy the long drink
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    Cheers!

  • Boston Sour

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    Boston Sour

    Boston Sour is a fantastic drink with whiskey, lemon juice, sugar & egg white.
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    Minus the egg white, it’s the conventional Whiskey Sour.
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    And if you float full-bodied red wine to a whiskey sour concoction, then what you have is the New York Sour.
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    Mine this evening is the Boston Sour.
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    Ingredients

    Bourbon – 45 ml
    Fresh lemon juice – 20 ml Sugar syrup – 10 ml
    Egg white – 10 ml
    Cubed ice
    To garnish: Strawberry and an orange slice
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    Preparation Method

    Dry Shake all for 15 seconds & then shake it hard with ice for about 20 seconds to chill the liquid really well.
    Strain the mix into a old fashioned glass filled with ice and garnish with the strawberry and orange slice.
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    Cheers!

  • Long drink

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    December 13th, 2018

    Tonight I decided to first select the glass & then suit the cocktail to the palate & senses of the glass  A 550 ml lager glass was the toast of the evening. A Long drink for sure. A Long Drink is one of the first papyrus puzzles you can find in Assassin’s Creed Origins
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    My Long drink puzzle was finally solved with this concoction🥂
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    Ingredients

    Gin – 45 ml @greaterthangin
    White Wine – 50 ml @conasur Bicicleta
    Orange juice – 50 ml @tropicana
    Ginger ale – 20 ml
    Lemon juice – 10 ml
    Beer – to top up @carlsberg
    Lemon wedge – to garnish
    Bitters – 5 ml @peychauds

    Long Drink


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    Preparation Method

    Take your favorite lager glass. Pour in lemon juice, ginger ale & the gin. Stir well. Chuck in generous ice cubes and add in orange juice. Add the white wine and top it off with with your favorite lager. A dash of bitters adds to the complexity. Garnish with a fresh lemon wheel.
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    Cheers!

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