All About Cocktails

It’s claimed to have been invented by Gosling Brothers – a Bermuda-based distillery – around the time of the First World War, using their Black Seal rum. Anecdotally the drink has probably been around a lot longer, with sailors finding a combination of their daily rum ration with ginger beer easier and tastier to drink and the lime being added for vitamin C to ward off scurvy.

The ice that’s been floating around the back of your freezer in trays (or bags from the supermarket) for weeks – if not months – really isn’t up to the job of enhancing your drink. If you’re going to go to all the effort of making cocktails at home with quality ingredients, then skimping on your ice is not a great idea...

Many cocktail recipes call for sugar syrup, but it’s not something that everyone is likely to have hanging around their kitchen cupboards. However, the good news is that it’s incredibly easy to make at home! Read all about it right here.

Dive into your fridge and kitchen cupboard to find some tasty yet easily available combinations of ingredients. Find out which ones, right here!  

Sweet, cool and refreshing, mint is the most commonly used herb leaf in cocktails – think juleps and mojitos –, and is readily available at the local store or a...

The origin of the Daiquiri is simple – this cocktail gained its moniker from the village of the same name in southeast Cuba. The drink was invented in 1898 during the Spanish-American...

There are literally hundreds of different styles of glassware, some of which are simply aesthetic, whilst others have more practical qualities to enhance your drinking experience. We take a look at a few of the glasses that you’ll most commonly find in a cocktail bar.