A Last Word with Light rum in place of gin, hence initially named Light Word, but A Quiet Word had more of a ring to it. Bird is the Word No. 1 To quote Fraser Campbell, the drinks creator, influenced ...

The most common style of champagne is 'Non-vintage' (NV) and this tends to be base wine available from each house and most reprehensive of its house style. A blend of wines from several different ...

The Noble Experiment – US Prohibition – came to an end on this day in 1933 when the House of Representatives passed the Twenty-first Amendment to the ...

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POUR beer into Boston glass. Layer amaretto and rum in chilled shot glass by carefully pouring amaretto and then rum. IGNITE the rum and carefully lift shot glass then drop (bottom first) into Boston ...

THROW all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of ice block). Today is, of course, Christmas Eve and it's also, rather splendidly, the ...

POUR first 2 ingredients into ice-filled glass. TOP with soda (leaving room for the brandy). Briefly stir and then FLOAT brandy.

POUR absinthe into ice-filled glass and top with water. Leave the mixture to stand in the glass. Separately, STIR all ingredients with ice. Finally discard contents of absinthe-coated glass and fine ...

The Noble Experiment – US Prohibition – came to an end on this day in 1933 when the House of Representatives passed the Twenty-first Amendment to the Rich, cakey squares of chocolatey deliciousness.

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 ...

Alcohols ability to draw out flavoursome substances from herbs and spices by infusion and then preserve those flavours has been used since the Middle Ages – originally by monks to produce potions with ...

The idea of Maria Vieira who won the 2018 Gabriel Boudier Wizard competition held in Dijon in January 2018. The competition challenges bartenders to come up with an original liqueur that is not ...