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London Cocktail ClubProtein Drinks with a Difference from London Cocktail Club

Keen on continuing your New Year’s health kick? Sounds like you’re in need of some delicious non-alcoholic and low alcohol cocktails. Bartender and entrepreneur JJ Goodman – the man behind…

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How do you make a Martini cocktail?The Martini: The Ultimate Cocktail?

The Martini. There’s no cocktail like it for bringing out the purist in certain people. You know the sort of thing they say: “Show the gin a bottle of vermouth, throw…

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Festive cocktailsDefy Christmas Tradition with 20 Alternative Festive Cocktails

This is your call to arms: it’s time to reclaim Christmas. Knock over a gingerbread house, wear your Christmas jumper backwards, and shake up 20 experimental festive tipples that promise…

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The Great Negroni Bundle is Here!The Great Negroni Bundle is Here!

Need an excuse for festive Negronis? How about a whopping £20 off all three key ingredients and a fancy Riedel tumbler to sip from, with our super-duper Bathtub Gin, Martini…

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Six Futurist Cocktail Recipes For The Experimental Home BartenderSix Futurist Cocktail Recipes For The Experimental Home Bartender

The Italian Futurist movement laid the foundations of what became the pioneering cocktail industry we know and love today – and yet very little is known about its provocative, theatrical…

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Behind the Scenes at London’s New Ziggy Stardust-Inspired BarBehind the Scenes at London’s New Ziggy Stardust-Inspired Bar

In 1973, David Bowie toasted the retirement of his alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, with a star-studded bash dubbed ‘The Last Supper’ at Hotel Café Royal. Now, 25 years on, the…

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Shaken – Drinking with James Bond and Ian FlemingWant To Imbibe Like Bond? London’s Top Bartenders Show You How…

From the Vesper in Casino Royale, to his iconic Martini ‘shaken, not stirred’ in Diamonds are Forever, James Bond’s penchant for high-class tipples is something we can certainly get behind….

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This Is Why Your Next Drink Should Be A Bottled CocktailThis Is Why Your Next Drink Should Be A Bottled Cocktail

Pre-batched cocktails have experienced something of a glow-up in the last few years. Forget ‘shaken or stirred?’, we’ll take ours bottled, please. Here’s why you should, too… When you consider…

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The Nightcap: 27 JulyThe Nightcap: 27 July

As a bevy of drinks companies post their full-year results, let’s get down to business with this week’s The Nightcap. Greetings from another Friday! You’ve made it through a week,…

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The Nightcap: 13 JulyThe Nightcap: 13 July

Friday the 13th might be unlucky for some, but not if you follow the world of booze! It’s been an action-packed week, and we have the glorious highlights right here,…

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These Are The Biggest Cocktail Trends in the UK Right Now…These Are The Biggest Cocktail Trends in the UK Right Now…

Like keeping your finger on the garnish? As Bacardi Brown-Forman Brands’ bartender education roadshow Jigger, Beaker, Glass approaches the final leg of its UK-wide tour, Shervene Shahbazkhani shares four cocktail…

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The Nightcap: 6 JulyThe Nightcap: 6 July

Happy Friday, team! Summer is ON (at least here in the UK) and there’s a certain football match on the agenda tomorrow… But before that comes around, it’s time to…

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All Hail the Apéritif! Author Kate Hawkings on the Art of Pre-Dinner CocktailsAll Hail the Apéritif! Author Kate Hawkings on the Art of Pre-Dinner Cocktails

We have a very special guest on the blog today: it’s Kate Hawkings, drinks writer, restaurateur and now author of a book on apéritifs called, controversially, Aperitif. Aperitif contains recipes…

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The Nightcap: 29 JuneThe Nightcap: 29 June

Down those tools and pick up a dram: it’s Friday, folks! And with the last day of the working week comes your regular round-up of delicious developments from the wonderful…

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Kombucha: What Is It and Why Is Everyone Drinking It?Kombucha: What Is It and Why Is Everyone Drinking It?

Kombucha is touted as something of a health elixir, but the effervescent fermented tea has plenty in common with the drinks industry. Brewed like beer, as complex as wine and…

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In pictures: Behind the scenes at The Art of Campari exhibitionIn pictures: Behind the scenes at The Art of Campari exhibition

Partial to a Negroni? Then feast your eyes on The Art of Campari exhibition, coming to North London’s Estorick Collection next month. Not in the capital? No worries! Enjoy a…

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