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Black Bush Spritz

Black Bush Spritz

Spritzes are not only for summer! Here we use Irish whiskey and apricot to create more of an autumn drink. There’s a certain earthy quality to apricot liqueur that we appreciate and that goes well with Bushmills Black Bush whiskey in this case. Black Bush Spritz Recipe by Cocktail Detour Ingredients 30 ml whiskey 30 ml Lillet 15 ml apricot liqueur 30 ml club soda 50 ml Champagne Mixing Gently stir directly in a big wine glass with a big ice cube. Glassware Wine glass
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The Wizard

The Wizard

The Illusionist gin [https://www.theillusionist-gin.com/eng/home] is truly magical. When poured from the bottle it has an almost purple colour, but when it is mixed with other ingredients its colour changes. Part of the excitement is seeing what colour the mixed drink gets after adding the gin.⁠ ⁠ When we created this drink we thought it would end up a bit blue, but when the gin was mixed with Suze, it decided to go golden/amber instead. When seeing that, we just had to call the drink “The Wizar
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Corpse Reviver No. 2

Corpse Reviver No. 2

The Jawbox [https://jawboxgin.com/story] gin that we are using today is a particularly good one, made in Belfast. In the gin there are eleven different botanicals, one of them being local Belfast Black Mountain Heather. It's a potent and powerful gin that we knew we needed to use in a similarly styled cocktail.⁠ ⁠ A classic Corpse Reviver No. 2 was decided upon. It is one of our favourite drinks, as we love both gin and Absinth. The licorice notes from the Absinth worked in perfect harmony with
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The Rosé Bouquet

The Rosé Bouquet

When we were challenged to use rosé wine in a cocktail we immediately started to search for a good recipe. It turns out there are actually lots of them and in the end we had a hard time picking only one. “The Rosé Bouquet” we chose for two reasons; it has grapefruit juice in it which we love, and we happened to have a bouquet of tulips at home making the prefect side garnish for this drink.⁣ ⁣ There's a certain dryness to rosé wine that makes it work pretty well as a cocktail ingredient. It's
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Flatiron Martini

Flatiron Martini

Take a look at this portable vodka from Dervana Vodka [http://www.dervana.com/] founded in Sweden back in 2018. It comes in mini bar sized bottles, which becomes completely flat when the vodka is gone. So the Flatiron Martini seemed fitting to make. It's an elegant riff, adding Lillet Blanc and orange liqueur to the vodka itself. We thought the drink was delightful. And although being no vodka connoisseurs we can tell the Dervana vodka is of high quality! We also think the packaging looks re
Cocktail cointreau
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La Rosa Louisiane

La Rosa Louisiane

Peychauds is a quite astonishing cocktail ingredient. Not only is it a very versatile bitter, found in both classic and contemporary drinks. But it also gives drinks a very beautiful pink to red colour when mixed with clear spirits. A very good example of this is a cocktail called La Rosa Louisiane by Will (who makes up 50 percent of the inspiring @kaleandcocktail Instagram account). This cocktail is boozy, herbal and bitter. And we love it!! La Rosa Louisiane Recipe Ingredients: 2 oz gin 0,
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Albert Mathieu

Albert Mathieu

We recently spotted these green tinted glasses in a local charity shop here in Stockholm. Normally we only buy clear glassware as we want to be able to see the colour of the actual cocktail. But there was something about these green vintage glassware that made it impossible to walk away from them. So after buying them, against our believes, we knew we needed to mix up a green cocktail so that the photo would still somehow be true to the cocktail. Thankfully we came across Kevin Martin's recipe
Cocktail elderflower liqueur
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Edgewood

Edgewood

As Punt E Mes is one of the ingredients in Greg Best's Edgewood cocktail, it gets an almost golden colour making it look very appealing. And it also tastes phenomenal, being a bit bitter and sweet at the same time. When poured into coupes this cocktail almost looks like a beer we think. We are also playing with perspectives in this photo (these glasses are actually tiny) and this further enhance the beer look. This cocktail is perfect for sipping on a Saturday. It's sophisticated, interesting
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