Journal
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Making Hay While the Sun Shines
Summer is here, and if you are lucky enough to have an outdoor drinking area then it can be hard to keep up with the demand that an unexpected day of sunshine can bring. Balancing your labour costs, the degree of prep required, the amount of stock to order and the opportunity for sales that can disappear with a single grey cloud can feel like a near impossible task
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The Magic Number
3-Ingredient Serves
Great cocktails don’t have to feature a laundry list of components. They can be hard to execute – both in remembering the spec and the amount of time it takes to reach for each bottle – not to mention difficult for punters to imagine the resulting flavour profile -
Syrups, Shrubs & Cordials
Syrups, shrubs and cordials are key balancing elements in a great many cocktails. Outside of the commercially available range that you can get through Distilled, we've curated a few additional recipes
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Top 10 Cocktails in GB
A useful few drinks to reference if you are building a list and you're looking for some safe bets...
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Rum with a Twist
Rum has been a maritime staple for many a moon, with daily naval rum rations starting in 1731 and only really drawing to an official close on Black Tot Day, July 31st, 1970. Of course, sailors weren’t exactly sipping on Diplomatico on the rocks back in the day; quality was known to be pretty sketchy at the best of times, necessitating mixing into grog and precursors to what we now know as flavoured rum
These days rums aren’t flavoured or spiced as a need to disguise dire distillates, in fact consumers cannot seem to get enough of the category, with flavoured and spiced growing to half of all off-trade rum sales and moving in the same direction in the on-trade
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Total Smoke Show
Smoke, pepper, citrus, earthy charms, this Mezcal has it all. While it might not be everyone's bag, it most certainly is a favourite at Distilled. Beyond a smoky Marg, we've a few ideas for you to get stuck into that charred charmer so that you can see what it can really do
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Pina Colada Day – 10th July
Nothing says 'holiday' more than pineapple, coconut and rum. The Pina Colada has been maligned for too long now; with some work, good ingredients and, admittedly a bit of a sweet tooth, this cocktail can be a real pleasure... guilty or otherwise. So crack open the rum, check the date on that coconut cream and get the blender out of the cupboard; it's time to party like it's 1989
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World Mojito Day – 11th July
It's coming up to Mojito Day, so why not put a few specials on and maximise the opportunity. We have a few recipes for you, some of them playing pretty fast and loose with the term 'Mojito', but extremely smashable - in a responsible fashion - either way