Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
A searchable library of over 3,000 easy to follow recipes, including the Mojito, Margarita, Old Fashioned and Daiquiri, and thousands of other vodka cocktail...
Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: This infamous drink reached the height of its popularity in the early 1980s and by 1985 The New York Times reported, "A potent alcoholic drink called Long Island Iced Tea is sweeping the Island's bars as well as watering spots across the country. Of the many stories surrounding its origin, perhaps the most credible attributes its creation to the 1970s, perhaps 1972, by Robert …
Vieux Carré Cocktail - Difford's Guide
Review: A Sweet Manhattan served on-the-rocks with added herbal complexity and an all-important splash and dash or two of New Orleans bitters. Driven by comments on Difford's Guide, particularly one left in January 2021, I changed my Vieux Carré recipe to use 25% less whiskey, cognac, and vermouth but the same 10ml of Bénédictine, so amplifying the herbal richness it …
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
Blue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao stands out as the only vivid blue ingredient to be found in bars across the world. And like many things from the 1970s, blue drinks are retro and so back in vogue. Here's our best blue curaçao cocktails.
Manhattan (Perfect) Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
How to make: Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.; Prepare orange zest and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry for garnish.; STIR all ingredients with ice.; FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.; Express orange zest twist over cocktail and discard. Garnish with maraschino cherry.
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Paloma Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: Paloma is Spanish for 'dove'. Its origins are unknown although it is reputed to date back to the 1950s. Some attribute its creation to the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, the former owner/bartender of La Capilla (The Chapel) in Tequila, Mexico, who created the Batanga.
20 best Bénédictine cocktails - Difford's Guide
One of the truly classic liqueurs, Bénédictine contributes honeyed herbal notes to cocktails. All those below call for the original Bénédictine D.O.M., which is richer than the Bénédictine B&B version of this liqueur popular in countries such as the USA.
Paper Plane Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: A riff on the classic Last Word created in 2007 by Sam Ross for The Violet Hour, Chicago, USA.He first made it with Amaro Nonino Quintessentia and Campari but switched Campari out for a less bitter aperitivo liqueur soon after creating the cocktail when he started making it at New York's Milk & Honey.Sam says, "This cocktail is named after the M.I.A. track …
Degree of sweetness (brix) - Difford's Guide
A liquid's sweetness is measured on a scale called 'brix'. At 20°C, 1.0°brix is equal to 1 gram of sugar in 100 grams of water and sugar solution. Or, to put it another way, there is 1 gram of sucrose sugar and 99 grams of water in the 100 grams of solution.