Cocktails

Alma Bloody Mary

50ml Chili Vodka
1/2 Lemon – juiced
10 shakes Worcester
3 shakes Tabasco
Celery salt – little bit
Black pepper – a few twists
Tomato juice
Dry Sherry float

Garnish
Celery stick
Lemon slice garnish
Wassabi sesame seeds
Straw

*Add vodka, Worcester & Tabasco to glass.
*Add bit of celery salt, few grinds of pepper and lemon.
*Top up to ½ full with tomato juice.
*Nearly fill with ice.
*Add celery stick and lemon slice.
*Drizzle dry sherry on top.
*Sprinkle a sew sesame seeds
*Add a straw

FOR A VIRGIN MARY/BLOODY SHAME LEAVE OUT VODKA & SHERRY

Espresso Martini

25ml Vodka
25ml Kahlua
1 double espresso

*Make a double espresso
* Pour into shaker full of ice
* Add vodka and kahlua
* Put top on shaker and shake vigorously until your hand is cold
* Strain into fancy martini glass – use the strainer if you are not confident doing it without.

Pimm’s

50ml Pimm’s
Lemonade

Ice – lots of
Strawberry – sliced or quartered
Mint sprig
Cucumber – sliced or diced
Orange slice
Straw

In a pint glass add loads of ice, strawberries, cucumber, mint and any other nice fruit that’s available. Top up most of the way with lemonade. Put 50ml of Pimm’s on the top. Serve with a straw. If you add the lemonade to the Pimm’s you will just get a scummy mess.

Negroni

25ml Campari
25ml Martini Rosso
25ml Gordons gin
Ice
Orange Slice

Pour all the booze into a glass full of ice.
Stir.
Garnish with orange slice

Nick’s Best-Ever Red Sangria

INGREDIENTS

4 x (750-ml.) bottle house red wine 
1 litre orange juice
 4 Dbl shots brandy / calvados
200g granulated sugar

Put wine, sugar, brandy & juice in large pitcher, leave overnight in the fridge.

TO SERVE
Ice, Sliced orange, Sliced apple, Blueberries, Sliced strawberries & Soda water

DIRECTIONS, 1 glass

1. Fill a very large wine glass with ice, add sliced apple, orange, blueberries & strawberries.
2. Add 175ml of Sangria mix – using normal wine measure.
3. Top up with soda water and add sliced orange to rim of glass.

DIRECTIONS, 1 caraf

1. Put wine, sugar, brandy & juice in large pitcher, leave overnight in the fridge.
2. Fill a curvy water bottle ¾ full of Sangria mix and top with soda water.
3. Serve with required number of very large wine glass filled with ice, sliced apple, orange, blueberries & strawberries.

Gay Farmer / Gay Estate Agent

Born in the heady days of Gerald & Kinkers lunches these two “cocktails” where once an Alma midweek standard. Sadly not as popular as they used to be, they still deserve their place on this list.

“Gay Farmer” 50ml Campari, orange slice, soda water, ice.
“Gay estate agent” 50ml Campari, 25ml Gordons gin, orange slice, soda water, ice.

Both these should have an additional slice of orange added to the glass for each refill – when there is no more room for booze it’s hometime.

Irish Coffee

25ml Jamesons
2 sachets of sugar
1 cup of coffee
Double cream

Put the booze in a wine glass
Add sugar
With a spoon in the glass make a full cup of coffee straight in there.
Stir to make sure sugar is dissolved.
Float the cream on top – slow and steady with a very shallow angle.

Serve on a saucer with a teaspoon and extra sugar.

Name of Liqueur Coffee and Liqueur Used

Gaelic coffee: (Drambuie or Glayva)
Irish Coffee: (Whiskey)
Brandy Coffee: (Brandy)
Keoke Coffee: (Brandy and Kahlúa)
English Coffee: (Gin)
Calypso Coffee: (Tia Maria or Kahlúa and Rum)
Jamaican Coffee: (Tia Maria & Rum)
Shin Shin Coffee: (Rum)
Baileys Irish Cream Coffee
Monk’s Coffee: (Bénédictine)
Seville Coffee: (Cointreau)
Witch’s Coffee: (Strega)
Russian Coffee: (Vodka)
Priest Coffee: (Brennivín)
Corfu Coffee: (Koum Quat liquor)
Kaffee Fertig: (Coffee: with Swiss prune schnapps)
Caffè corretto: (grappa, brandy or Sambuca)