Introduction to Home Mixing
Why do people cook at home and not make cocktails at home? Everyone uses the internet nowadays to look up recipes for their dinner but very few look up cocktail recipes to make at home.
I think there are two key differences between cooking and making cocktails that discourage people from trying it at home:
These two differences are very much correlated. In fact point 1 is possibly the cause of point 2. Imagine if you made cocktails as regularly as you made food? The knowledge you possess that you take for granted about food, you would also have for cocktails. So does this mean that it is possible to whip up a cocktail out of random ingredients you have in your kitchen like you would a meal?
In this line of blogs I am going to try and offer up some recipes made up from ingredients that might just be lying around your kitchen and so you could potentially make at home without having to run out to get ingredients. Obviously I don’t know what is in people’s kitchens so I have decided to stick to one rule and one assumption:
From Aviation highs all the way down to a Dark and Stormy, the Bar 135 blog will guide you through the cocktail world and make sure you end up with the perfect drink in your hand.
Keep coming back for the latest food and drink fashions as well as expert advice on recreating your favourite drinks at home.