Martha Stewart was wrong! Yes, I said it. The Queen of Entertaining got it wrong this Thanksgiving. While her recipe for a Cranberry Old Fashioned was delightful, it needed some…
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Category: Cocktails
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Today is two things: 1. It’s a day all the trains from London were delayed dramatically. 2. It’s Thanksgiving! What do these 2 things mean when combined? Well, I found…
Published today – an open letter from Tunbridge-Wells-Based manufacturer, The Handmade Cocktail Company to Commander Bond. The letter reads: Dear Commander Bond, I write to you today in the gravest…
So – a few weeks back you may remember we launched a couple of ‘experimental’ cocktails – the Hanky Panky and the Boulevardier. The good news on this front is…
So – Summer’s here. Sort of. From time-to-time. When it’s not flooding or what-have-you. With this in mind, Professor Cornelius Ampleforth has turned his attention to perhaps the most quintessentially…
The handsome devils at The Handmade Cocktail company have mixed a very tasty martinez, the latest addition to a range of superbly convenient cocktails. The origins of the martinez are…
We are soon approaching that quadrennial day in which we un-married men must hide fearfully from our other halves in case they try to enslave us in a life of…
It really only struck me as I was trying to explain to a (non-whisky-loving) friend the weekend after this event that I was, to all intents and purposes talking in…
It all began last month, when I was invited by the founders of the London Cocktail Society to go up to London and present our range of bitters to their…
Okay – I’m not going to lie – it’s busy around here at the moment. Anyone would think that there’s some kind of holiday impending… Anyway, it turns out…
Every year on the 5th of November here in the UK we set off fireworks and burn an effigy of a man who tried to overthrow a king who enforced…
It’s hot today in Tunbridge Wells. Really hot. Whilst it’s never too hot for whisky (by Jingo I could go for a Great King Street Highball right about now), the…
I’ve long held up Bushmills 10yo as one of my all-time favourite Irish Whiskeys, predominantly because it has such an incredibly clear and obvious flavour component within it, that of…
New product announcements! Hurrah! Yes, today we are announcing a terrific addition to the Handmade Cocktail Company’s sterling range of ready-made bottled cocktails. Many of you cocktail enthusiasts have already…
So – we’ve been doing our Drinks by the Dram whisky sample service for almost a year now, and in that time have decanted ‘loads’ of 700ml bottles into…
Astonishing. It’s an easy term to bandy around (and god knows I’m possibly more guilty of doing so than most), but from time to time, one is simply so taken…
We gave a few whisky bloggers a simple brief: come up with a great cocktail using our 8 year old blended whisky. We’ve had some great responses, and today’s cocktail…
It’s a trend we’ve seen emerging for many years, that of bartenders mixing their own versions of the Manhattan, Rob Roy, and other Classic cocktails, then bottling them and simply…
Continuing on in our series of guest cocktail posts, we are thrilled to bring you Chris Hoban, who writes for the excellent Edinburgh Whisky Blog – a detailed, brilliantly written site…
We asked a few well-known spirits/drinks writers to come up with delicious wintry cocktails using our 8 year old blended whisky, and our new cask-aged whisky bitters. This week we’ve…