Lesser Known Cocktail Ingredients, and How To Use Them

This guest post is from our lovely friends at Vinspire. We can all shake up something tasty to drink at the end of a long week, but one of the best things about making cocktails is learning about all the weird and wonderful spirits, liqueurs and bitters that bring the extra flavour to some of […]

My Favourite Brighton Cocktail Bars

Fran at The Graphic Foodie The party town of Brighton is certainly not short of a place or two to drink. Saying that, the majority of bars cater for the influx of stag and hen parties and mainstream clubbers that want their drinks cheap and cheerful. But if you prefer your poison refined and a little more exclusive […]

Review: Red Vermouths

Red Vermouths First produced and consumed for medicinal purposes, drinkers soon realised you needn’t be ill to enjoy red vermouths as an aperitif, the Italians being particularly enthusiastic about a glass or three of aperitif. Around the turn of the 20th Century, its abilities to mix with a host of other boozy ingredients led to […]

Cocktail Bar Review: The Milk Thistle, Bristol

Why is it that taxidermy animals are now synonymous with Speakeasy bars? I thought the point was that everyone was busy making moonshine gin in their bathtubs out of potatoes and their mistress’ nail polish, not shooting badgers and then artfully dressing them in comedy bowler hats? Still, it seems that it’s de rigeur  in […]

Review: White Vermouths

For almost as long as wine has been produced, so has something that resembles vermouth. Even the big-name Greek physician Hippocrates was known to be a producer of a wine-based digestive. Today, vermouth is required to be made from wine fortified with spirit and aromatised with herbs and spices. Wormwood is an absolute must; no […]

Cocktail Bartender Interview – Adam Montgomerie

Adam Montgomerie is the Head Cocktail Bartender at Bar Kohl Edinburgh, which turns 20 this year and celebrated in November with a huge party that was the talk of the city. Throughout 2013, Adam and his dedicated team have been working on the Bar Kohl cocktail list – gone are the flavoured vodkas and shots […]