X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

This week we have gone with a winter warmer with the temperature dropping below zero out there.

A bit late for tonights episode but this will be perfect for tomorrow night.

This is a recipe we created for the guys at Slane Castle Whiskey and is soon to be launched in the US so watch out for it over there!!!!!

Hot Henry
40mls Slane Castle Whiskey
20mls Cinnamon syrup
1 small orange wedge
100mls boiling hot water

Method :- Boil the kettle!!!! pour some boiling water into a heatproof glass or mug to heat it. After about 1 minute discard the water. Add the whiskey and syrup. Top up with boiling water and stir to dissolve the syrup. Squeeze the orange wedge into the glass and serve with a napkin.

Cinnamon syrup is available on www.coffee-ireland.com or in Celtic Whiskey Shop on Dawson Street, Dublin........ the whiskey is also available in Celtic Whiskey Shop

THANKSGIVING COCKTAIL RECIPE

Here is a delicious recipe for you to try on 'Turkey Day'!!!!!

Black Forest
20mls fresh cream
2 tsp drinking chocolate powder
20mls Chambord
20mls Creme de Cacao Brown
Hot milk

Place the cream and powder into the bottom of a heat proof glass/mug.
Mix until like a paste.
Top up with hot milk to halfway.
Add the chambord and Creme de cacao Brown. Stir.
Top up with more hot milk and add some faom to the top of the drink.
Garnish with chocolate flakes................

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

HERE IS THIS WEEKS X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE:-

Vanilla Sky

40mls Vanilla Vodka
20mls fresh lemon juice
20mls sugar syrup
35mls raspberry puree
20mls Galliano Vanilla or Vanilla Liqueur

Method:- Pour the puree into the bottom of a tall glass. Top with crushed ice. Then add the vodka,lemon juice and sugar syrup to a cocktail shaker. Shake well and strain over the crushed ice. Drizzle the Galliano pver the top. Garnish with a mint sprig and berries

Vanilla Vodka is available in good off liciences like Gibney's Malahide, Celtic Whiskey Shop,Dawson St or Redmonds in Ranleagh.

To make raspberry puree just buy a tin of raspebrries in the supermarket and blend them. They will last for a couple of days in the fridge

To make sugar syrup just add equal parts sugar and water to a container and stir until the sugar dissolves.

Enjoy!!!!!!

X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

Here is this weeks X Factor Party Cocktail.......

RASPBERRY COLLINS
40mls Gin
20mls fresh lemon juice
2 tsp caster sugar
5 muddle raspberries
Soda Water

Method:- Muddle the raspberries in the bottom of the shaker. Add the lemon and sugar. Stir, then add the gin. Fill the shaker with ice and shake well. Pour the contents of the shaker into a tall glass(12-14oz). Top up with soda. Garnish with a raspberry and a mint sprig.

Enjoy!!

SHOPPING LIST:-
Gin.....17 portions per 70cl bottle
lemons for juicing(we advise pre squeezing if making a lot of them, half a lemon will generally give you the amount of juice you need but it is always best to measure for your cocktails!!)
Raspberries
Caster sugar
Soda Water
Cubed ice
Cocktail shaker
measure
muddler

X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

This week's recipe is a tribute to our own Mary Byrne!!!!!

We have taken the classic Scarlett O Hara and revamped it. The original Scarlett O Hara was made with Southern Comfort, but we have tweaked it to be more like a cosmo as we know how girls like their cosmos and have used Irish whiskey and apricot brandy liqueur instead. Apricot Brandy is readily available in off licences......happy shaking and raise a glass or two to Mary!!!!!!!

SCARLETT O HARA
40mls Irish Whiskey
20mls Apricot Brandy
60mls cranberry juice
2 lime wedges

Method:- Put some ice into a martini glass to chill it. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Squeeze in the lime wedges. Discard the ice from the martini glass. Shake the mixture and strain into the chilled martini glass. Garnish with a piece of orange zest.....enjoy!!

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X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL

This weeks recipe is dedicated to Wagner, the Brazilian lothario. We are sure he would really enjoy a Caipirinha about now.

The Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and all you need to make it is some limes, caster sugar and Cachaca, a Brazilian sugar cane spirit, available in higher end off licences like Celtic Whiskey Shop on Dawson St, D2 and Redmond's in Ranleagh and you will get 19 portions out of a 70cl bottle.

Recipe:-
35mls Cachaca
half a lime cut into 4 wedges
2 teaspoons of caster sugar

Method:- Place the wedges in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add sugar and muddle to release the juice from the fruit. Add the cachaca and some ice and shake hard. Pour the contents of the shaker into an old fashioned glass(whiskey glass)

Garnish with a lime wheel and piece of sugar cane(optional, available on http://www.mixo-logic.barstore.com/)

X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

Ok, ladies!

Here is your first recipe......

We will post a different recipe each week so that you can have a delicious cocktail while you and your girlfriends watch Simon Cowell & Co.

This week we are breaking out the bubbles, but not breaking the bank.....

What you need:-  Vodka, raspberries, pineapple juice and Prosecco(Dunnes do a great Prosecco for about €7 a btl)Martini Glass

FLIRTINI
20mls Vodka
40mls pineapple juice
5 raspberries
Prosecco(to top up)

Glass:- Martini Glass
Garnish:- Raspberry

Method:- Muddle the raspberries in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the vodka and pineapple juice and shake hard. Strain the mixture into a martini glass and top with chilled Prosecco. Garnish with a raspberry floating in it. 

COMING SOON!!!!! OUR COCKTAIL BOOKLET

Shortly we will have booklets of cocktail recipes available to buy online. They will be released monthly and will incorporate seasonal flavours and recipes and advise you on what you need to buy to make them and more importantly where to shop...... watch this space

TRUE ORIGINALS NO. 2: THE HUMMINGBIRD

A PERFECT PINA COLADA!!

Saba Cocktails - Beteljuice

BLACK EYED PEAS IN DUBLIN

Mixio-logic's Paul Lambert is making drinks at the Pre and After show parties of the Black Eyed Peas Concerts this weekend.

The E.N.D World Tour is sponsored by Bacardi and 50 guests each night will be treated to delicious Bacardi Cocktails like Mojitos, daiquiris and a special cocktail created by Paul, for the event. Named the V.I.Pea it will be the signature drink of the weekend.

Recipe and photo to follow

42BELOW COCKTAIL WORLD CUP 2010

Congratulations to Team Ireland for finishing 4th overall in the 42Below Cocktail World Cup in Wellington, NZ.

They also won the Modern Martini section of the competiton, keeping up Ireland's consisitent record in this competition. We have always won one round of the competition since we first started entering in 2006.

Team Ireland consisited of Max La Rocca, Aaron Wall, Andy Ferreira and their recipes were as follows:-

WILDE HONEY PORTER                                
1 muddled cardamom pod                                  
25 mls lillet blanc

15 mls creme de cacao

15 mls simple syrup

15 mls lime juice

2 dashes angostura

35 mls guinness

35 mls 42 Below Manuka Honey

15mls egg white

(thanks to Max for the recipe and photo http://www.maxologist.blogspot.com/)



KIA KAHA (stand strong) Modern Martini Winner

50 ml 42BELOW Pure
20 ml Little Blanc
2 Dashes Peychaud
42 Below Feijoa Vodka mist
"Throw" the mix form one tin to another in order to aerate and chill the drink without giving too much dilution

(old technique from Baodas Cocktail Bar in Barcelona)

Strain in chilled cocktail coupe

Garnish with a twist of grapefruit

SUMMERTIME IS HERE!!!

To celebrate the arrival of summer, here is a recipe we created for today.

Loosey Goosey
40mls 42Below Vodka
20mls Orange curacao
5 red grapes
6 mint leaves
2 drops of Peach Bitters
20mls fresh lime juice
20mls MONIN Cane Syrup
7up

Method:- Muddle the grapes in the bottom of the cocktail shaker with the mint, lime jucie and sugar syrup. Add some ice and then pour in the vodka and bitters. Shake well and pour the contents of the shaker into a tall glass with ice. Top with 7up. Garnish with a mint sprig.

42 BELOW COCKTAIL WORLD CUP 2010

We would like to wish Team Ireland the very best of luck at the 42Below Cocktail World Cup in Queenstown, New Zealand next week.

Team Ireland is made up of Aaron Wall(Noo Bar), Max la Rocca(Sheen Falls Lodge) and Andy Ferreira(Long Island Cocktail Bar) and they have been working very hard on their recipe for the World Cup.

Best of luck guys and bring it home!!!!!!!

ST PATRICK'S DAY COCKTAIL

Here is a little recipe that I have enjoyed on many a Paddy's Day and actually made this for Bulgarian TV as part of a show aired on Paddy's Day 2007.

I got the idea when I was in Greece teaching bartenders for Jameson in 2006. Each bar we went to gave you a plate of watermelon with your drinks.

So sitting there, eating a piece of watermelon and sipping on some Jameson on ice and I realise that they actually go well together, so when I get back to Ireland I created this little number called PULP FICTION.

PULP FICTION
5 big chunks of watermelon
15mls Monin Cane Sugar syrup
50mls Jameson

Method:- Chill a martini glass with some ice.Muddle the watermelon with the syrup in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the Jameson. Add some ice and shake hard to break down the watermelon even more. Discard the ice from the martini glass and strain the liquid into the glass. Garnish with a small slice of watermelon.

So enjoy this drink for whats left of Paddy's day or at any other time.

Slainte!!!!!!!!

Cocktail recipe

Here is another recipe I tried recently:-

RYE N GINGER OLD FASHIONED
70mls Rye Whisky( I used Rittenhouse, from Celtic Whiskey Shop)
10mls Monin Ginger Syrup
5 drops Bokers Bitters

Method:- Add the syrup and bitters into an empty old fashioned glass. Add a little ice and 35mls of whisky. Stir for about 10 seconds, add more ice and another 35mls of whisky. Stir for another 10 seconds. ad a little more ice and garnish with an orange spiral.

(Not bad but to be honest cud have done with more syrup. The ginger notes were quite tame. I recommend 15mls Monin Ginger Syrup.)

Cocktail Recipe

Here is one of my favourite tipples at the moment, El Presidente #1. There are two El presidente recipes, one is manhattan-like the other martini like. I prefer this one.

Recipe

50mls Bacardi 8

25mls Carpano Antica Formula

2 drops angostura bitters

Method:- Put some ice into a martini glass/coupette to chill the glass. Add ice to a large glass or mixing glass. Pour in the rum,vermouth and bitters. Stir for about 20 seconds. Discard the ice from the glass and strain the liquid into it. garnish with an orange zest.

ENJOY!!!

3 MOST PROMISING RECIPES OF 2010

Congratulations to Erik Lorincz,Scott Tyrer and Matthew Dakers for making it through to Bacardi's, 3 MOST PROMISING RECIPES OF 2010.

The three guys now, with Bacardi's help and support will promote their drink during the rest of the year in as many ways as possible and at next years Founders Day Party(4th Feb 2011) the overall winner will be announced and their recipe will go into the Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Book alongside the likes of Mojito, Daiquiri, El presidente and co.

Here are the guys recipes:-

Erik Lorincz, Connaught Bar
50mls Bacardi Superior
15mls Tawny Port
10mls Oloroso Sherry
30mls lime juice
2 barspoons caster sugar
3 drops peychauds Bitters

Method:- Shake all ingredients over cubed ice and fine strain into a coupette. garnish with  large crystal clear ice cube

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Scott Tyrer, Bibis Italianissimo
62.5mls Bacardi Superior
12.5mls Giffard White Creme de cacao
4 dashes Bitter truth Xocolatl Bitters(http://www.bittertruth.com/)
1.25mls Lagavulin

Method:- Stir all ingredients over ice until well chilled. Fine strain into a chilled coupette, garnish with half a vanilla pod.
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Matthew Dakers, Hoxton Pony
40mls Bacardi Superior
10mls Yellow Chartreuse
20mls lime juice
10mls honey
10mls egg white
1 dash Grapefruit bitters
2-3 mint leaves

Method:- Shake all ingredients with cubed ice and fine strain into a chilled coupette, garnish with a grapefruit zest sprayed around the glass and then discarded and float a mint leaf on top.

Good luck to the guys and watch out for their drinks popping up on the net and TV.

LEGACY COCKTAIL COMPETITION 2010

Congratulations to Ago Perrone, Head Mixologist at The Connaught in London who became the first entry into Bacardi's Legacy Cocktail Book alongside such greats as the Original Mojito and Classic Daiquiri.

Ago's recipe won out over three recipes chosen last Feb as part of the Founders Day Celebrations and will now go down in history as a Bacardi Legacy recipe. Ago is pictured here with David Paskins and Peter Dorelli celebrating his victory.





Ago's recipe is as follows:-

Mulata Daisy

40mls Bacardi Superior
25mls creme de cacao dark
20mls lime juice
2 barspoons caster sugar
10mls Galliano L'Authnetico
1 and 1/2 barspoons of Fennel seeds

Method:-Dust the rim with cocoa powder and carefully rinse it with Galliano L'Authentico. In a cocktail shaker muddle the fennel seeds, add the other ingredients, shake hard with cubed ice and double strain into the martini glass rimmed with cocoa powder.



I have made this cocktail at a couple of training sessions and the feedback from bartenders is very positive. I really like the drink myself too!! I think this drink will be around for a long time to come!!':- Paul Lambert, Mixo-logic Ltd.

TRUE ORIGINAL NO 2

Check out this video. Now this is a good Pina Colada!!!! Not with Malibu,pineapple juice and cream!!!!!

I was asked to make a Pina Colada this way in Puerto Rico as part of my training with Bacardi and it is by far a much nicer drink.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFJuL6nt6_M&feature=rec-rev-rn-1r-3-HM


Enjoy!!!

SIMON DIFFORD SEMINAR

Legend of the cocktail industry Simon Difford was in Dublin last night for a seminar with Dublins top bar managers discussing 'what makes a great bar great!'

Simon has a wealth of knowledge of bars having reviewed them for over 10 years for his magazine CLASS and offered some invaluable adivce on different areas of bar from Decor, to food, to cocktails and beer selections. Over 20 bar managers trunred up and were treated to delicous Bacardi cocktails by Paul Lambert and Alan Kavanagh.

COCKTAIL RECIPE

Here is a recipe for an amazing drink I first tried in London, in a bar called Prohibition, near London Bridge.
I couldnt source Gingerbread syrup by Monin here but am delighted to announce that now it is available over here through the guys at Food Solutions.

They carry the full range from Monin, syrups,liqueurs and purees/sauces so check them out.
http://www.coffee-ireland.com/


GINGERBREAD DAIQUIRI
50mls Bacardi Superior
25mls freshly squeezed lime juice
17.5mls Monin Gingerbread Syrup

Method:- Pour all ingredients into a shaker in the following order, syrup, lime juice, rum. Shake well and double strain in to a chilled martini glass/coupette. Garnish not necessary but you can. Use a lime circle or lime wedge.

Enjoy!!