Homemade Tonic Syrup

Yes, you could just buy a bottle of ready-made tonic water, but where's the fun in that? Wouldn't it be infinite more fun to be able to tell your guests that you made it yourself? If you follow the recipe below you will make a delicious…

Blackberry and Lime Flavoured Gin & Tonic-cocktail (4 servings, great as a welcome drink)

Ingredients 2 dl (~6.6 fl oz) tonic syrup (or just ordinary tonic water)1 untreated lime1 handful blackberries8-12 ice cubesApprox 6 dl sparkling waterGin according to tasteA small handful of rose petals (e.g. rose hips) How To Mix Mix…

The Perfect Manhattan Cocktail

TL;DR: You make the perfect Manhattan Cocktail by stirring Whisky, Vermouth and Angostura Bitters with ice cubes. Strain into a cocktail glass. Ingredients 5 cl whisky (Rye Whisky is preferred, but not required. any canadian, bourbon, blended…

Top 10 Gin drinks

Gin is a lovely thing. It's very tasty and can be used for a huge variety of cocktail and drink recipes. Most prefer to mix it with tonic (you know, the G&T - nice!), some prefer Schweppes lemonade (uhm!). Others prefer to mix it with "snaps"…
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Fish House Punch

Invented at a gentlemen's club in Philadelphia in 1732, the Fish House Punch was one of later Founding Father George Washington's preferred drinks. Apparently he once drank so much of the punch that it took him three days to recover from…

Zombie

The cocktail zombie has a somewhat foggy past however there is one thing that seems to be the cause for the name of the drink: apparently everyone drinking it turn into a zombie... Of course this has nothing to do with the cocktail containing…

Mojito – Recipe

Recipes and tips to make the perfect mojito Mojito recipe The mojito is an old classic, whose creator is not certain. In short there are two theories where one tells the tale that the mojito was created among the black slaves in early America,…

10 champagne drink recipes for New Year’s Eve

All over the world New Year's Eve is a night of celebration - and champagne! But what champagne, champagne-cocktails and drinks should you serve to your guests? Read on to find the editorial staff's top 10 list of excellent cocktail recipes…

Cucumber Yum-Yum

Image credit: Michael Bothager Cucumber Yum-Yum won the Danish National Drinks championship in 2009. Hardeep Rehal (from the "1105" cocktail bar in central Copenhagen) invented and presented the Cucumber Yum-Yum to the jury in the contest. Ingredients …

White Russian and Black Russian

Even though you might think so, the cocktail White Russian is not originating from Russia (or Belarus). According to The Oxford English Dictionary the cocktail is mentioned for the first time in the Oakland Tribune way back in 1965. Back then,…