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Book SynopsisIn Irish Kitchen Cocktails, industry pro Oisin Davis shows you how easy it is to make cocktails with Irish spirits using everyday kitchen equipment. Ireland is home to some of the best distilleries on the planet, and it's no longer just whiskey. We're also creating incredible Irish gins, poitins, vodkas, rums, liqueurs, meads, vermouths and fruit distillates. Understanding the basics of cocktails will allow you to explore these Irish spirits in delicious - and easy - ways. Do you have a spoon and a large bowl? You can stir up the perfect punch for any kind of party, like Mrs Doyle's Iced Tea. Remember that NutriBullet you bought because you wanted to go on a smoothie diet? Dust it off and you can rock out a whole heap of frozen cocktails, like a Frozen Jameson, Ginger Ale & Lime. Got a decent-sized jug and a hand blender? You can lash together amazing cocktails in minutes, including a Wicklow Wanderer. Found yourself in a cocktail emergency? Be prepared with drinks such as The Ginger Divil. Slainte!
Trade Review"Oisín Davis makes drinking fun, and Irish Kitchen Cocktails makes cocktail making fun, and shows how the great spirits we distill in Ireland can make world-class drinks. Vive Cum Gaudio – Latin for Live with Joy – is Oisín’s signature. Irish Kitchen Cocktails will help you to live with joy." – John and Sally McKenna, McKennas Guides
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Irish kitchen cocktail essentials. 1. FROZEN BLENDER COCKTAILS: Frozen gin & tonic; Frozen Club Orange gin fizz; Frozen Jameson, ginger ale & lime; Frozen poitin pina colada; Frozen Irish mule; Chocolate riot; Frozen Irish coffee 2. FRIDGE DOOR COCKTAILS Old fashioned; Stout old fashioned; All-Irish old fashioned; Black Barrel boulevardier; The emerald; Wicklow wanderer; Blackwater martini; Gunpowder negroni; White negroni; Bertha's rickey; Bee's knees 3. WHOPPER PARTY PUNCH BOWLS: All-Irish punch bowl; Synger Minger surprise; Mrs Doyle's iced tea; Summer soiree; Halloween hooley punch; Killahora medley; Hibiscus & Irish rum punch 4. EMERGENCY GATECRASHER COCKTAILS: Stonewell cider spritz; Caskmates grapefruit shandy; Holy Irish trinity; The ginger divil; Irish honey julep; Elderflower Collins; Lady Roisin 5. WINTER HAND WARMERS: Hot buttered Irish rum; Irish coffee; Mulled apple & whiskey; Hot pear & chestnut; Ginger hot toddy; Gin hot toddy; Mulled Kinsale mead 6. HOMEMADE INFUSIONS: Wild elderflower gin; Spiced gin; Spiced vodka; Plum vodka; Wham Bar vodka jelly shots; Rhubarb & honey whiskey; Crab apple & ginger whiskey; Sloe whiskey; Blackberry & honey poitin; Poitin limoncello 7. IRISH CREAM DESSERT COCKTAILS: Irish cream Alexander; Pimped-out Baileys hot chocolate; Irish cream espresso; Five Farms frozen mochaccino; Coconut Irish cream 8. HANGOVER HELPERS: Sally's birthday Bloody Mary; Bloody Molly; Jameson pickleback; Berrisimo & OJ; Irish espresso martini; Belfast coffee
