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I'm On a Boat

The recipe for I'm On a Boat is from bar Stoddard's in Boston. It's a tiki style cocktail based on rum, orgeat and lime. The orgeat combined with the Cognac and rum creates a rather creamy feeling. The cocktail is smooth, silky and shiny. It's extremely easy to drink. Be careful though because it's quite strong! In fact the drink kind of looks like a stormy sea when ice cubes are added and the glass is swirled anti clockwise. We served the drink in a huge Cognac coupe to really get the feeling

angostura bitters Cocktail

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Feb 2, 2018 — 1 min read

The Center of the Galaxy

This is The Center of the Galaxy. At least according to Martin Cate over at Smuggler's Cove, who created this cocktail. Raspberries always add a certain freshness to cocktails, as well as a nice colour. It also gives this cocktail a tiki vibe, although served in regular coupes and with no pineapple or coconut whatsoever in sight. What's also very likable about this cocktail is that it has honey syrup as one of its ingredients. This is quite different from regular simple syrup, and has a rounde

chambord Cocktail

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Jan 29, 2018 — 1 min read

Back To Basics

Irene Benjamin is soon to compete with her creation Back To Basics, and she kindly shared the original recipe with us. It's a fun cocktail to make at home, because it's very visual and stunning thanks to the red wine syrup in it. Also, despite all that lovely foam forming at the top, this is a one hundred percent vegan cocktail as aquafaba is creating the foam. (Aquafaba is the viscous water in which chickpeas have been cooked). The cocktail is really nice. The red wine and orange syrup contrib

Cocktail dry vermouth

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Jan 27, 2018 — 1 min read

The Invisible Skier

Okay, let's Tiki the Snow Away! We decided to call this original cocktail The Invisible Skier. It's a milk cocktail gone vegan as we used almond milk as the base. We then made a banana nut bread syrup out of the very same tea from DAVIDsTEA. To really give the cocktail a tiki kick we used Smith & Cross's tropical tasting rum, and to enhance the almond notes we added a small amount of Amaretto. This is a cocktail on the sweeter side. However as the sweetness is coming from almonds, banana and o

Cocktail Amaretto

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Jan 9, 2018 — 1 min read

Roman Holiday

The Roman Holiday might not sound like a winter cocktail, but look close in the ingredients list and you'll see the chili liqueur. And when this spicy spirit is combined with Cognac, rum and orange juice it actually feels like winter. This recipe is from bar Canon in Seattle and in their book there's an interesting text about how spicy spirits can be used to balance sweetness, in the same way as bitters and sours does. Ancho Reyes chili liqueur is relatively sweet on its own, but it's definitel

ancho reyes angostura bitters

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Jan 5, 2018 — 1 min read

Brown Sugar

This is another gem by Leo Robitschek, and it's simply called Brown Sugar. And brown is certainly what you end up with, as every single ingredient has a golden brown colour. There is the wonderful Lustau East India sherry, and delicious Italian amaro Cynar. Then there's both rye and rum and mole bitters to bind it all together. We like how balanced this cocktail is. It's many different flavours compliment each other and create a boozy and stiff cocktail, that's still so easy and enjoyable to si

Cocktail cynar

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Dec 29, 2017 — 1 min read

Mots de Caraïbes

We've been waiting to open our bottle of rum Fire for a while. We wanted to decide on the perfect premiere cocktail to make with this rum that we've heard so many good things about. So finally we decided to make a Mots de Caraïbes by rum enthusiast Brian Di Maggio. Brian cleverly composed this drink as an equal part cocktail, combining the sweet rum with tart Suze and balancing it all with fresh maraschino liqueur and sour lime juice. It's a brilliant recipe, so delicious. Hands up for you Bri

Cocktail maraschino

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Dec 20, 2017 — 1 min read

The Great Pretender

In The Great Pretender by Thomas Waugh there is a big splash of overproof rum. But as it is the amazing rum from Smith & Cross that's used this is totally fine if you ask us. It's such a wonderful rum with flavours of butterscotch, citrus and sugar. As there is also pineapple juice in this drink we wanted to use some pineapple cocktail picks. Getting them to balance with the little green pineapple facing upwards proved impossible. If you are looking at this photo on a smartphone you could turn

Cocktail rum

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Dec 11, 2017 — 1 min read