Category Archives: Cocktails

Blackberry Liqueur

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GO PICK BLACKBERRIES NOW

There are a ton of recipes that have red wine or brandy and require cooking, forget all that, I promise you will love this I have been making this for about 10 years now.

You will need about 1kg of blackberries rinse them but don’t worry about anything else.

Put the blackberries in a large ceramic container I find a large soup kettle with a lid is ideal.

Pour on two bottles of full strength vodka don’t buy any expensive ones you want the alcohol and no flavour.

Now leave these soaking for a month and when you remember give them a little stir.

After 1 month using a potato masher give it a light mash just to break the berries.

Pour on 2lb or 1kg of granulated sugar and give a good stir.

Give a thorough stir every time you remember for the next 2 months.

After 2 months give it a good mash and stir and then leave another 2-3 days, get sterilised bottles strain the lucious liquid into bottles and leave for 2 weeks.

This amazing syrup can be used in cocktails to make Kir Royale and even poured over crêpes.

Quarantini Martini

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QUARANTINI INGREDIENTS 

You luckily only need 3 ingredients to make this Quarantini. This is perfect since the stores are sold out of everything and in epic chaos. I bet you already have everything you need.

Vodka (or gin)

Lemon

Honey

You can use vodka or gin. And sure, if you want to you can even use rum. You know what, grab whatever is left in the drinks cabinet and add it to the martini shaker. After the first couple, you won’t taste it much anyway.

  1. Rim your glass with Vitamin C. Place vitamin c on plate, wet the edge of the martini glass by running a lemon wedge around the edge and then press into vitamin c. You can also run water or honey around the edge of the glass.
  2. Squeeze juice of half a lemon into shaker, add a good dollop of honey and a large measure of spirit, gin or vodka. Shake with ice and strain into your rimmed Martini glass.

Turbo Gin & Tonic

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​Ingredients

35ml Gin (Gin Foundry uses Sipsmith at Junipalooza)

10ml Sandows Cold Brew Coffee

Tonic water

Lemon peel to garnish

Method

Pour the gin over ice into a Collins glass.

Add the cold brew coffee, then top up with tonic water and garnish with a long lemon peel.

We recommend either using a classic gin or a citrus forward gin in a Turbo G&T – the coffee wants to dominate the mix and you need either some fresh acidity or big punchy juniper core to balance it out.

So who’s excited about their first Turbo G&T then?

Pimp your Gin and Tonic

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If you’re partial to a gin and tonic, then here’s a product we know you’ll love. Personalising your drinks is all the rage at the moment, so these new botanical packs from OriGINario are just the thing.

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There are four contrasting styles each one adds an intriguing slant to your G&T.

Floral – roses and lemongrass
Mediterranean – lemon and orange peel
Spiced – star anise and clove
Traditional – juniper berries and Brazilian pepper

Either pair your botanical pack with a complementary gin that is similar in style, or go leftfield and choose a contrasting style – either way, the result will be a cut above your average G&T! Once you’ve made your drink, simply add the contents of the pack, and you’ll notice a fresh hit of aromatics that takes your G&T to the next level.

Available for £16.95 from the Whisky Exchange

Caipirinha

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1 Lime

2 and Half Measures of Cachaça

1 and half tea spoons of sugar.
Cut lime into 8 pieces.

Put lime and sugar in glass and muddle until sugar is disolved.

Add Cachaça and muddle some more. Add ice and muddle more.

Bacardi Cocktail

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A simple but delicious cocktail, very moreish.

1.5 Measures of Bacardi

1 Measure of Lime Juice

0.5 Measures of Gomme Syrup

1 teaspoon of Grenadine

Put ice in shaker with all ingredients and shake thoroughly.

Garnish with a cherry.

Enjoy

Nightjar Cocktail Bar – City Road, Old Street, London

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Last night I tried out Nightjar bar just round the corner from Old Street Tube Station. The entrance is quite discrete and we walked past twice.

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We arrived at the entrance to be greeted by the door person who checked our name off on the list and we were allowed to “step inside” and make our way to the top of the steps but to go no further! We were then told we were allowed to descend the stairs and taken to our table.

The cocktail list, divided into historical eras (pre-Prohibition, post-war and so on), makes for enthralling reading with all its unexpected ingredients, including: smoke, squid ink, burning pine cones and foam. Part of the fun here is watching the way the cocktails are mixed using smoke machines and blow torches. It’s a full table service and the staff know the cocktails inside out so you can get recommendations.

Prices range from around £10-£14 per drink, so pretty much normal cocktail prices, but nothing about these cocktails are normal and they certainly pack a punch! We had to try the one with Squid Ink, the smell wasn’t great but the it was surprisingly delicious and well worth a try!

The only downside – we had a table booked from 6-8pm and at 7.30pm we were told that our time was nearly up and we should consider buying our last drink and we would have to leave, only to be repeated by another waitress shortly after.(However, we did manage to persuade them to give us another table as they’d had a cancellation.)

If you’re in the area it’s well worth a visit, but you must book a table as you won’t get in.

129 City Road
London
EC1V 1JB

www.barnightjar.com

Open 6pm-1am Mon-Wed, Sun; 6pm-2am Thur; 6am-3am Fri, Sat