By Rob Pickard
With Christmas round the corner, I’m sure the spirits fans amongst you will be dusting off those obscure bottles in the spirits cupboard and stocking up on the essentials for the annual period of experimental cocktail making. However if you are drinking out over the next few weeks in London and want to sample …
By Will Lowe, http://www.willlowe.com/
When I was asked to write an article on dairy based cocktails, my head was immediately filled with the sound of Calvin Harris singing “it was acceptable in the 80’s”. Fortunately, it’s a short song, so it wasn’t long before I was able to focus on the task at hand.
Fashions in what …
By Rob Pickard
With the autumnal weather slowly rolling in, it will soon be winter and we’ll all be getting ready for the madness of Christmas. Well in prepartion for the festive season, one of London’s leading Rum bars, Trailer Happiness, has created an awesome little winter warmer using Bibendum’s Plantation Cognac and Pierre Ferrand Curacao.
A great winter drink, the Hot Buttered Rum …
By Rob Pickard
With the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel’s Booking Office Bar officially launched earlier this month, the bespoke drinks menu, designed by Bibendum and consultancy firm Strange Hill, is bringing long lost Victorian punch recipes back to London’s bar scene.
The new menu offers customers an interesting look at an era when mixed drinks were beginning to emerge within …
By Rob Pickard
The recently opened St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is quite a sight, set within one of London’s most iconic landmarks, this 5 star hotel is now one of the leading hotels in the city, and hailed as the city’s most romantic building. Originally opened as the Midland Grand Hotel in 1873, it was designed to …
By Rob Pickard
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without indulging in a few seasonal drinks, and in true festive style, drinking things that at any other time of year would seem ridiculous: Snow Ball, Eggnog, Mulled wine……Cream Sherry!
Following a team Christmas party – which kicked off with a cocktail master class from Stuart Hudson at The Alice House, West Hampstead - I offer you …
By Juel Mahoney, http://www.winewomansong.co.uk/
A good way to break up a hot afternoon sipping Sherry in the sunshine is to do what local Sevillianos do and make a Rebujito. This is a cocktail from the traditional Andalucian fairs (or Ferias). Sherry is deceptively dry and high alcohol (15.5%), so by the time you get around to making them, thankfully, the recipe is very easy to remember:
50% …
By Bibendumtimes
Sir Richard Whittington in a drink
British food? Past are the days when eyebrows were raised and questions asked. Local Chefs are now proud of their heritage. Nowadays almost every other restaurant prides itself with being the true representative of modern British cooking.
The same can be said about English wines. In the last few years wine drinkers began to understand that …
By Bibendumtimes
Following from last week’s Tim Atkin Caption Competition, here is this week’s chance to win a bottle of Laurent Perrier Ultra Brut Champagne. All you have to do is watch our very own spirits maestro Will Lowe make our Bibendum Times cocktail then come up with a name for Will’s creation.
The best name for the cocktail (as judged by the B …
By Will Lowe
I’ve got a new toy. It’s a 0.5 ltr Mosa Nitrous Oxide Cream Whipper. Sounded very masculine until that last bit…Anyway, I’ve decided to put it to the test. And of course, a new toy calls for a new recipe! Starting out with my all time favourite rum, I made the basic inroads towards a rum old fashioned. A bar spoon of demerara sugar, …
