The mixer’s manual The cockTail bible for serious drinkers
dan jones
featuring: the ClassiCs, PunCh Bowl favourites, syruPs, Brines & sours and Mini Bar Must haves
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SYRUPS, brines
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sours The boozy trinity: syrups, brines and sours are the warheads in the home mixer’s arsenal. Syrups sweeten it down, sours sharpen it up, and brines slip in a pickle.
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sYruPs, brines & sours
Š 2014 Hardie Grant Books. All Rights Reserved
The boozy trinity: syrups, brines and sours are the warheads in the home mixer’s arsenal. Syrups sweeten it down, sours sharpen it up, and brines slip in a pickle.
© 2014 Hardie Grant Books. All Rights Reserved
bourbon, disguised with sugar, bitters, and loosened up with a dash of soda. a large twist of orange peel, left sticking out of the old Fashioned like a middle finger, rubs aromatically against the nose as you sip.
bourbon, disguised with sugar, bitters, and loosened up with a dash of soda. a large twist of orange peel, left sticking out of the old Fashioned like a middle finger, rubs aromatically against the nose as you sip.
1 ingredienTs
1 ingredienTs
2
50 ml (2 oz) dry gin
mint to garnish 50 ml (2 oz) vodka
1 lime
1 lemon
3 meThod Add the bitters, soda water and bourbon into a tumbler, and the sugar cube to dissolve. Muddle with a twist of orange peel, add two large pieces of ice and a maraschino
equipmenT muddler glass Tumbler
manhattan
equipmenT muddler glass Tumbler
old Fashioned
50 ml (2 oz) dry gin
mint to garnish 50 ml (2 oz) vodka
1 lime
1 lemon
2
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3 meThod Add the bitters, soda water and bourbon into a tumbler, and the sugar cube to dissolve. Muddle with a twist of orange peel, add two large pieces of ice and a maraschino
bourbon, disguised with sugar, bitters, and loosened up with a dash of soda. a large twist of orange peel, left sticking out of the old Fashioned like a middle finger, rubs aromatically against the nose as you sip.
bourbon, disguised with sugar, bitters, and loosened up with a dash of soda. a large twist of orange peel, left sticking out of the old Fashioned like a middle finger, rubs aromatically against the nose as you sip.
1 ingredienTs
1 ingredienTs
2
50 ml (2 oz) dry gin
mint to garnish 50 ml (2 oz) vodka
1 lime
1 lemon
3 meThod Add the bitters, soda water and bourbon into a tumbler, and the sugar cube to dissolve. Muddle with a twist of orange peel, add two large pieces of ice and a maraschino
equipmenT muddler glass Tumbler
manhattan
equipmenT muddler glass Tumbler
old Fashioned
50 ml (2 oz) dry gin
mint to garnish 50 ml (2 oz) vodka
1 lime
1 lemon
2
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3 meThod Add the bitters, soda water and bourbon into a tumbler, and the sugar cube to dissolve. Muddle with a twist of orange peel, add two large pieces of ice and a maraschino
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sYruPs, brines & SoURS
Š 2014 Hardie Grant Books. All Rights Reserved
The boozy trinity: syrups, brines and sours are the warheads in the home mixer’s arsenal. Syrups sweeten it down, sours sharpen it up, and brines slip in a pickle.
© 2014 Hardie Grant Books. All Rights Reserved
singaPore sling 1
ingredienTs
• 50 ml (2 oz) dry gin • 1 tsP dry vermouTh 1 lime • 1 lemon • lemon wedge To garnish • mint to garnish
2 equipmenT
glass Tumbler
simple, sharp, refreshing and – after a couple – dizzying. Tweak the balance between sugar and lime to taste, but a good rickey should be bright, sharp and strong. 24
muddler
glass muddler Tumbler
3 meThod add the bitters, soda water and bourbon into a tumbler, and the sugar cube to dissolve. muddle with a twist of orange peel, add two large pieces of ice and a maraschino.
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manhattan
simple, sharp, refreshing and – after a couple – dizzying. Tweak the balance between sugar and lime to taste, but a good rickey should be bright, sharp and strong.
1
ingredienTs
2 equipmenT
glass Tumbler
• 50 ml (2 oz) dry gin • 1 tsP dry vermouTh 1 lime • 1 lemon • lemon wedge To garnish • mint to garnish
muddler
glass muddler Tumbler
3 meThod add the bitters, soda water and bourbon into a tumbler, and the sugar cube to dissolve. muddle with a twist of orange peel, add two large pieces of ice and a maraschino.
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