• Gin Appletini

    Gin Appletini

    Some of the categories of  gin
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    Genever
    Distilled gin
    London gin
    Compound gin
    Plymouth gin
    Old Tom gin
    Sloe & flavoured gin
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    I have here my Tanqueray a London dry gin which has  its’  origin in London. London dry gin is made by double distilling grain, with select botanicals  added during the second distillation. Tanqueray predominantly is known to contain four botanicals: juniper, coriander, angelica root, and liquorice, all common botanicals in gin productions overall
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    So with fresh green apples around, here’s the muddle-shake-strain drink tonight. Though recommended with Vodka, here is a twist – Gin APPLETINI
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    Ingredients

    Gin – 60 ml @tanqueraygin
    Orange liqueur – 20 ml @grandmarnier_uk
    Lime juice – 20 ml
    Sugar syrup – 10 ml
    Green Apple wedges – 4
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    Preparation Method

    Combine the lime juice & apple wedges in a shaker and muddle the apple.  Add the gin, liqueur & sugar syrup to it and shake it well with ice cubes. Double strain it in a cocktail glass. Garnish it with apple wedge & mint 
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    Cheers! 

  • Monk Tea

    Monk Tea

    Monkey Shoulder Scotch is a blended malt whisky  made with single malts from three famous Speyside distilleries. The Whisky maturation in used Bourbon American oak cask, which is high in Lactones, gives this dram it’s unique vanilla, caramel, anise to nose. It’s malty, smooth, fruity, honey on palate with  a spicy oak finish.
    An excellent choice for whisky cocktails
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    The website of MS describes : “Some say it tastes just like riding bareback on the wild moors of Scotland with a flame haired maiden on Christmas morning🤶 Others agree it tastes like 007 wearing a tuxedo wetsuit.”
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    So with the base spirit as flamboyant as Monkey Shoulder, I couldn’t think better than a shake with Grand Marnier, Monin lemon tea le sirop & with a dash of Regan’s Orange bitters
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    Ingredients

    Single malt blended Whisky – 60 ml @monkeyshoulder
    Orange liqueur – 20 ml @cointreau
    Lemon tea – 20 ml @monin_usa
    Orange Bitters – A dash
    Two toasted Star Anise – to garnish


    Preparation Method

    Combine all in a Cobbler Shaker with half filled ice. Give it a good shake. Strain it in a Coupe crystalware with two ice cubes. Garnish &  float a toasted Anise. A feel of sophistication as you sip & enjoy.

    Cheers!

  • Maple Jamun Margarita

    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!

  • Hot Frozen Margarita

    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

    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

    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!

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