This amaretto liqueur is made using almonds from Puglia roasted and distilled. The distillate is then aged in a bourbon cask for eight months and blended with sugar, coffee, cocoa, cinnamon, and a ...
Described by Rudyard Kipling as being "Compounded of the shavings of cherub's wings", the Pisco Punch was created in or en route to San Francisco. The cocktail was made famous at the city's legendary ...
Part of the 'sour' cocktail family, the Margarita traditionally consists of three ingredients: tequila, triple sec orange liqueur and lime juice, often served in a glass with salt on the rim.
James Bond drank a Negroni when he wasn't in the mood for a Martini, and when Orson Welles tried his first one in 1947, he commented, "The bitters are excellent for your liver, the gin is bad for you.
Absinthe adds a distinctive flavour to cocktail and long drinks and is widely called for in vintage cocktail books. However, two ritualistic styles of serve are synonymous with absinthe. Both drip ...
While the exact origins of the Mojito cocktail and its name are lost in time, some trace it back to 1586 and a medicinal drink named after Sir Francis Drake. Drake was one of a band of privateers ...
The combination of coffee and milk goes back a fair way in the history of coffee. William H Ukers in All About Coffee, notes that the Dutch Ambassador Johan Nieuhof, was experimenting with milk in ...
Tequila is a distilled spirit made from the cooked and fermented juice of the agave (pronounced 'Uh-Gah-Vee'), a spiky Mexican plant which resembles a cactus. Traditionally the process is labour ...