This cocktail is a collection of some of my favourite ingredients. Plus, I realised the acronym spells out LIIT which feels appropriate.
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Dalgona Jalisco Espresso
Thought I’d hop on this dalgona trend and see how it works in a cocktail. It’s pretty intense in this one in terms of the coffee flavour, but I enjoyed it by drinking the cocktail underneath first and then moving onto the dalgona after.
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Sour Loaf
I was lucky enough to be given a bottle of this @bakersbestgenever recently. They have a really cool brand purpose, saving unused bread and turning it into delicious spirits! I wanted to stick with this sustainability theme and also had the idea of making a super sour cocktail, so I decided to use up the citrus…
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Fire-Starter
The February #homebarawards challenge was to create a tiki drink with at least two rums and an element of fire. Here’s my entry!
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West Auckland Daiquiri
Here’s a little original recipe that I made up a while ago. This is a riff on the classic daiquiri which replaces white rum with spiced rum and uses honey as a sweetener as apposed to plain sugar syrup. Enjoy!
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Gold & Chivas
At the end of last year, the boys from @drinksfromamsterdam and I organised a cocktail jam session and photoshoot with a bunch of amazing Amsterdam bartenders at the beautiful @visqueamsterdam. I made three drinks in total, all original recipes. This is the first one, which uses the delicious @chivasregal XV. The smooth cognac infused flavours of this whiskey work so…
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Love Potion
I was recently reminded of one of my first original recipes. It’s a tasty mix of gin, kombucha, soda and bitters. I was drawn to this idea because both kombucha and bitters are really good for your stomach (and gin is just delicious).
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Flaming Dragon Fruit
It’s #secretsanté time again!! Big thanks to my man @servedbysoberon for organising it again this year. I was lucky enough to get to make a cocktail for the amazing @garnish_girl! I had a wee scroll through her account. Saw that she is pretty into her dragon fruit and likes to make a tiki cocktail every so often I thought this…
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Pavlova Ramos Gin Fizz
I put a very Kiwi spin on the classic Ramos Gin Fizz. Pavlova is an egg white based cake, similar to meringue, that is super popular in NZ.
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Gingerbread Old Fashioned
It’s time for another one of my Christmas collaborations with @victoria.makes! This one is a whole level up from the gingerbread old fashioned I made last year.
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Clink Clink Drink 