Great Cocktails – Making and Drinking Cocktails

Bahamas Punch is a fruity rum-based alcoholic drink originating in the Caribbean islands of the same name. We’ve got the recipe for you and we’ve added a few more recipes for alcoholic punches and drinks – as well as an alcohol-free version – to make...

You’d think it should be very simple: a martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth; a vodka martini is a cocktail made with vodka and vermouth. But do you shake or stir your cocktail? Does it matter? And can a real martini be made with anything...

Jungle Juice is, in essence, a fruit punch – but a fruit punch with a kick that a mule would envy!
It became popular in New York and in college campuses across America, and recipes for it are as numerous as the tales of ‘what happened after I’d drunk it – or so I’m told’! It’s said to have got its name from the wild animal-like behaviour of imbibers...

Feeling blue? Then we have just the cocktail for you!
The majority of blue cocktails get their colour from Blue Curaçao.
Curaçao is an island in the southern seas of the Caribbean, and home to an orange too bitter to enjoy on its own. Fortunately for the sun-worshippers who gather there – and for the rest of us – the dried peel of this orange has been turned into a liqueur...