Fat-washing is a technique pioneered in New York City and was popularised due to Don Lee's Benton Old Fashioned cocktail made with bacon fat-washed bourbon. Grill 24 slices of smoky bacon to obtain at ...

Thai basil has a more assertive flavour than the more usual sweet basil varieties. The leaves are smaller and the stems purple. The flavour has hints of liquorice (licorice) and mint. Basil leaves don ...

Swizzles are sour-style drinks with a similar composition to a punch that, distinctively, must be churned with a swizzle stick. They are usually served in a tall Collins or sling glass and always with ...

As Stuart Hudson says, "Throwing is incredibly easy - if you can catch a ball you'll be able to throw. It's physically gentle, balletic and elegant, and while shaking causes injuries and is tough on ...

Step 1: LAYER the first four ingredients by carefully pouring in order into a Martini glass. Step 2: In two shot glasses POUR the remaining two ingredients separately. Step 3: IGNITE the contents of ...

The Spritz is a drink from northern Italy, particularly Venice and the Veneto region where it is pronounced 'Spriss' (from the German verb Spritzen, meaning spray or splash). This aperitif cocktail's ...

Classically the Gimlet is a simple 50-50 mix of gin and lime cordial but the rise in vodka's popularity during the 1990s and early noughties saw vodka frequently used in place of gin to make a Gimlet.

Since Richard Cook wrote the first known dedicated book in the English language recording drinks recipes in 1827 there has followed an awful lot of cocktail recipe books, many such titles having ...

What has become known as the Regal Shake refers to adding a freshly cut broad strip (a swath) of citrus zest into the shaker along with the ice and other ingredients when shaking a cocktail. This is ...

Amaro takes the place of aromatic bitters and adds bitter-sweetness in this riff on a Dry Manhattan. A Sweet Manhattan with a herbal touch of Bénédictine and cognac. Drier and more complex than our ...

Rum producers from Mauritius have a new spring in their step and you're likely to be seeing more of the island's agricole rums exported to a bar near you. It was RumFest 2011 where diffordsguide got ...

The 1990s turned into the decade of the V-shaped glass and any cocktail served in such a glass could be, and usually was, christened a member of the Martini family. With the fashion for 'fresh' so the ...