Our penultimate episode sees us looking back on some of our favourite people, places and products from the past 12 months.
The Cocktail Lovers podcast, Episode 9, Season 4 – listen here!
What we’re mixing:
Chicago
Ingredients:
15ml cognac
15ml triple sec orange liqueur
2 dashes Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1 brown sugar cube
100ml Champagne or sparkling wine to top
Orange peel garnish
Method:
Drop the sugar cube into a champagne coupe or flute and a couple of dashes of the Angostura Aromatic Bitters on to it. Add the cognac and and triple sec. Carefully top up with the Champagne or sparkling wine. Squeeze the orange peel over the drink to express the oils and discard.
With thanks to Simon Difford
Catch up with all previous episodes of The Cocktail Lovers Podcasts:
The Cocktail Lovers Podcast Seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4
The Cocktail Lovers theme music is by Travis ‘T-Bone’ Watson
A handfuls of our highlights from 2022…
Bars…
Amaro, London amarobar.co.uk
Chandelier Bar, Four Seasons, New Orleans fourseasons.com
Common Decency, London thenomadhotel.com
Himkok, Oslo hickok.no
Line, Athens lineathens.gr
Lowback at Hawksmoor, London thehawksmoor.com
Seed Library, London seedlibraryshoreditch.com
Schofield’s, Manchester schofieldsbar.com
Sterling Bar, Manchester sterlingbarmcr.com
Velvet, London corinthia.com
Products…
Beefeater Crown Jewel beefeatergin.com
Capreolus Distillery capreolusdistillery.co.uk
Empirical spirits in cans empirical.co
Fords Sloe Gin fordsgin.com
Nixta Corn Liqueur nixtalicor.com
Old Duff Genever oldduffgenever.com
Oxford Red Red Rye theoxfordartisandistillery.com
Smål Boosted Gin kaskadrinks.com
Woven wovenwhisky.com
People…
Simone Caporale & Marc Alvarez
Drew Fleming
Giacomo Gianotti
Jon Nicholl
Dan & Joe Schofield
Looking ahead to 2023…
With just one episode left in the current season of The Cocktail Lovers podcast we’re already looking ahead to 2023. If you any suggestions for the next season we’d love to hear from you. Please drop us a line here.
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