CHRISTMAS SPIRITS Stir it, muddle it, shake it like a Polaroid picture; for our Bristmas issue we’ve collated ten of our favourite wintry cocktail recipes from Bristol’s best mixologists, to make your Yuletide swing like a pendulum do By Ursula Cole
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emember the bad old Christmases past, when festive drinking was limited to breaking out the Bristol Cream? Maybe a Snowball down the local, if you were lucky, while the turkey dried out to the texture of cardboard; or a glass of Cinzano Bianco to wash down the cheesy footballs when the neighbours popped round. At least ‘popping round’ was a thing; maybe those days weren’t so bad after all. Today, however, we live in more enlightened times, when the Christmas drinks selection is wide open, with the kind of cocktail recipes that would have blown Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins’ socks off ( just look up ‘Cinzano Bianco ad’ on YouTube, if you’re obscenely young).
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