This drink is a winter whiskey sour with a hint of festive allspice. It makes for a great pre-dinner option as the citrus and cranberry juice keep it nice and light. The Christmas spice here comes from falernum, a Barbadian sugar syrup commonly used in tropical drinks. Despite that obvious nod to the summer, tiki recipes and little paper umbrellas, as it also contains ginger, vanilla, cloves and allspice, it…
Cinnamon-spiced pear whisky forms the base of this winter twist on the classic old fashioned. The whisky was inspired by the sheer quantity of pears the tree in our front garden produces every year. As the old saying goes, ‘if life gives you pears, add them to whisky…’. So we did. The recipe takes its name from the legal principle of …zzz… yeh, sorry about that, I almost slipped back…
Cinnamon-spiced pear whisky forms the base of our winter twist on the classic old fashioned – Without Prejudice and a number of other Christmas recipes we debuted in 2017. It was inspired by the sheer quantity of pears the tree in our front garden produces every year. So many pears that old ladies from the neighbourhood come by and fill carrier bags with the things – whacking the tree with…
“At this time of year I like a little whisky in my camomile tea before bed. I find it keeps the chill out from your paws long enough for you to fall asleep. How about it?” – Fox, Christmas with Fox & Beagle I couldn’t have put it better myself. This Camomile Hot Toddy is a twist on the classic whisky, lemon and honey cure-all which uses camomile tea instead…
With our Christmas Tincture, all your drinks can smell like Christmas! For me, nothing evokes the joy of Christmas like the smell of a Christmas tree. Well, apart from the smell of the Christmas box that stores my parents’ decorations for eleven months of the year, though that has been building up year on year since I was a kid, and I haven’t worked out how to bottle it yet.…
In my first piece for Scotchwhisky.com, I argue that too many whisky bars – old and new – are clinging to tired old clichés of tartan and haggis, perpetuating the myth that Scotch is an ‘old man’s drink’. It’s time they caught up with the rest of the whisky industry.
Don’t we all want to be a little bit more like 007? Well, here’s the perfect guide to help you drink like James Bond…
It’s a spooky time of year, so here are some scary cocktails to help your Halloween party go with a ‘boo!’
A question to which the answer is clearly no, but they still wanted me to hit the word count…
The days are shorter and colder, but there’s no reason your winter wedding can’t go with a swing. Here are some of our favourite cocktails for winter weddings.
