The Backbar Project

Fairytale of New York

2008-01-09T20:35:00.000-08:00

Glass: Martini
Garnish: Cinnamon stick
Method: Shake all ingredients with ice and fine-strain into chilled martini glass.
Ingredients:
1 shot Absolut Raspberi
1 shot Galliano
1 shot White Cranberry juice
¼ shot Lime juice

Sol Y Sombra

2007-10-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

Glass: Old-fashioned
Garnish: none
Method: muddle grapefruit, orange and sugar in base of glass. Add rum and fill with crushed ice. Stir well and float Creme de Mure.
Ingredients:
¼ pink grapefruit, cut into wedges
¼ orange, cut into wedges
2 barspoons demerara sugar
50ml Mount Gay Eclipse rum
12.5ml Creme de Mure

The Cilantropist

2007-10-12T19:17:00.000-07:00

Glass: martini
Garnish: single coriander leaf
Method: shake all ingredients with ice and fine-strain into chilled martini glass.
Ingredients:
50ml Plymouth Gin
12.5ml Limoncello liqueur
1 dash Martini Extra Dry Vermouth
1 dash Angostura Bitters
3 leaves fresh coriander

Watermelon Man

2007-10-08T18:43:00.001-07:00

Glass: highball
Garnish: physalis
Method: muddle watermelon and grapefruit in base of shaker. Add liquids and shake with ice; strain into ice-filled glass.
Ingredients:
1 thick slice of watermelon
¼ pink grapefruit
50ml Sagatiba cachaca
25ml Gomme syrup
25ml pineapple juice

Firestarter

2007-10-08T07:00:00.000-07:00

Glass: shot
Garnish: n/a
Method: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into shot glass.
Ingredients:
25ml Grand Marnier
12.5ml Green Chartreuse
2 dashes Tabasco sauce
Notes: makes two shots.

LDN

2007-09-26T07:57:00.000-07:00

Glass: highball
Garnish: Lemon wedge
Method: Shake all ingredients except the soda with ice and strain into an ice-filled glass. Top with soda.
Ingredients:
37.5ml Bombay Sapphire
12.5ml Lychee Liqueur
2 barspoons Elderflower Cordial
1 barspoon Blue Curacao
1 dash lemon juice
Top with soda water
Notes: Named for the Lily Allen song. Careful with the elderflower - it can overpower the drink.

Lychee Sour

2007-09-26T07:51:00.001-07:00

Glass: Rocks or Old-fashioned
Garnish: Orange zest twist
Method: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice-filled glass.
Ingredients:
50ml Lychee liqueur
25ml lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura Orange Bitters
½ Egg white
Notes: Add sugar syrup to taste, if required. If you don't have any egg white, a small splash of soda will serve a similar purpose, but not as effectively.

Maple & Cranberry Treacle

2007-09-26T07:45:00.000-07:00

Glass: Old-fashioned
Garnish: Orange zest twist
Method: Stir maple syrup and bitters with two cubes of ice in the base of the glass. Gradually add the rum and more ice, stirring continuously. Once all the rum is in, add a float of cranberry juice.
Ingredients:
15ml Maple syrup
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
50ml Bacardi 8yr old
Float cranberry juice

Grandmaster Smash

2007-08-19T20:05:00.000-07:00

Glass: Rocks or Old-fashioned
Garnish: None
Method: Muddle the mint leaves with the sugar and the lime wedges in the base of the glass. Add the Grand Marnier and fill the glass with crushed ice. Mix well with a barspoon, and float the Absinthe.
Ingredients:
4 lime wedges
2 barspoons brown sugar
8 mint leaves
50ml Grand Marnier
10ml La Fee Parisian Absinthe
Notes: The recipe just popped into my head while doing some more mundane work-related stuff. Seemed too good not to put down somewhere.

Neopolitan

2007-08-05T17:52:00.000-07:00

Glass: Martini
Garnish: Maraschino Cherry
Method: Shake all the ingredients with ice and fine-strain into a chilled martini glass.
Ingredients:
25ml Tuaca
25ml Cherry brandy
25ml White cranberry juice
15ml Lime juice
Notes: I formulated this drink on spec for a private event, but it wasn't used. The name's a bit misleading, as there's nothing from the area surrounding Napoli in this drink, but I think it conveys the idea of the cocktail - an Italian twist on a Cosmopolitan - pretty well.

Uptown Girl

2007-07-31T04:44:00.000-07:00

Glass: Martini
Garnish: Lemon zest twist
Method: Shake all ingredients with ice and fine-strain into chilled martini glass.
Ingredients:
25ml Skyy Vodka
25ml Limoncello
1 dash Angostura bitters
25ml Grapefruit juice
25ml Pineapple juice
1 dash Lime juice

Bridgetown Bumbo

2007-07-27T11:25:00.000-07:00

Glass: rocks or Old Fashioned
Garnish: Cinnamon stick
Method: Dissolve the molasses in the base of a mixing glass with the bitters and a touch of water if required. Flake off some of the cinnamon into the glass and add some grated nutmeg. Add a couple of ice cubes and stir. Start adding the rum, little by little, and continue stirring, adding more ice as you go. Don't dissolve the ice completely - the whole process shouldn't take more than a minute or two. Finally, fine-strain the cocktail into an ice-filled Old-Fashioned or Rocks glass and garnish with the remainder of the cinnamon stick.
Ingredients:
50ml Mount Gay Extra Old
2 barspoons Molasses sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1 nutmeg seed
1 dash Angostura bitters
Credits: Formulated from an old, old recipe mentioned in Wayne Curtis' And a bottle of rum.

Azteca

2007-07-27T11:20:00.000-07:00

Glass: highball
Garnish: Mint sprig & cherry
Method: Shake all ingredients except Creme de Menthe with ice and strain into an ice-filled highball glass. Crown the drink with the Creme de Menthe.
Ingredients:
25ml Jose Cuervo Tradicional tequila
12.5ml Appleton's V/X rum
12.5ml Galliano
25ml Lime juice
25ml Pineapple juice
12.5ml Creme de Menthe
Credits: Created by myself for the Paris cocktail menu at Le Monde.

The Grand Tour

2007-07-27T11:13:00.000-07:00

Glass: Martini
Garnish: Mint leaf
Method: Stir all ingredients except the prosecco with ice, and strain into a chilled martini glass. Top with prosecco.
Ingredients:
10ml Bombay Sapphire gin
40ml Tuaca
2ml Campari
3 mint leaves
20ml of prosecco
Notes: too much prosecco will kill this drink, likewise too much Campari. If you have no prosecco, champagne will do, I suppose.
Credits: created by myself for a Tuaca competition, May 2007.