The quest for the perfect gin and tonic, the perfect cocktail, taste, or recipe can be compared to the search for the philosopher’s stone (an elusive or imaginary key of metal transmutation), but this time applied to the purely subjective conscious interpretation of …
Thandai is a popular and refreshing Indian beverage. It is a milk-based drink prepared with sugar and full-cream milk infused with nuts, seeds, spices, and herbs such as almonds, fennel seeds, rose petals, pepper, cardamom, saffron, and those are only some flavors used …
No Name Drinks is an ever-updating collection of ideas and recipes I created over the years, some of them I already made, and some of them I didn’t have time to get to.
Short island Iced Tea begins as L.I.T., but I used masala tea foam instead of coke to finish the drink. The strength of the base alcohol helps carry out all the flavors of the tea and turn the drink into a completely different …
Ginzu cocktail is an apéritif- a stimulating before diner drink. Combine gin, Italian bitters – Aperol and Averna, and yuzu juice.
It is named after the pseudo-scientific idea that grafting monkey testicle tissue into humans would increase longevity, the concept developed by the Russian doctor Serge Voronoff.[2] It was created by Harry MacElhone, Harry’s New York Bar in Paris.
Gimlet was very popular with the British Navy. To prevent scurvy, a severe and sometimes deadly disease caused by Vitamin C deficiency, they were given preserved lime juice, but no self-respected sailor would’ve drunk straight lime juice. It sure tastes much better if …
The predecessor of Martini probably was the Martinez, which had more sweet vermouth than gin, according to a recipe from the 1887 Jerry Thomas book Bartender’s Guide, How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks. A year later, in 1888, Harry …
Many people are making Gin Fizz the same way as Tom Collins. The ingredients being the same is hard to differentiate between them. The proper way to serve Gin Fizz is into a shorter highball glass, with no ice and no garnish. If …
Singapore Sling was created at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore, around the early 1910s by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon. The recipe was published in 1922; it was found written on a coaster from the Raffles Hotel, and soda water was not mentioned in the …
