Let’s play bartender

There’s nothing more fun than channelling your inner Tom Cruise, twirling around your bar glasses at home and whipping up your own crazy concoctions. But sometimes it’s easier to make something simple without all the extra flare. Besides, that means you can enjoy them quicker! We all love a delicious, refreshing cocktail, but not all of us know how to make them. We’re giving you five of our favourite DIY cocktail recipes, straight from our very own Jimmy’s Bar & Lounge.

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Five DIY cocktail recipes

DIY cocktail recipe #1: Jimmy’s Fishbowl Sangria

Ingredients

  • 15ml Germana cachaça
  • 15ml Cointreau
  • 15ml Crawley’s burnt orange & vanilla syrup
  • 100ml red wine
  • 2 strawberries
  • 4 pieces green apple
  • 4 orange slices
  • 2 lemon wedges

Directions

  1. Add alcohol, syrup and fruit to red wine glass and stir
  2. Add ice and stir again

DIY cocktail recipe #2: Mojito

The mojito is always 2 nips of white rum, and we’re not using granulated sugar. We just use sugar syrup.

Ingredients

  • 60ml Havana Club 3 Anos
  • 15ml sugar syrup
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • Fresh mint
  • Top with splash of soda

Directions

  1. Add alcohol, syrup, mint and lime to hi-ball and muddle with flat-end barspoon
  2. Add ice and stir
  3. Top with splash of soda
  4. Garnish with mint sprig

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DIY cocktail recipe #3: Margarita

Margaritas should be made with lime juice, and the tequila should be 3 parts to Cointreau 1 part. Margaritas should be sweetened slightly.

Ingredients

  • 45ml reposado tequila
  • 15ml Cointreau
  • 30ml lime juice
  • Barspoon agave syrup

Directions

  1. Shake ingredients with ice and double strain into coupette with sea salt rim

DIY cocktail recipe #4: Old Fashioned

Old Fashioned are an expression of a bartender’s skill and knowledge of flavours and how to combine them properly. An old fashioned is a drink consisting of layers, and should be constructed, rather than just made.

 Ingredients

  • 60ml whisk(e)y
  • 10ml sugar syrup
  • 2-3 dashes bitters
  • 2 orange zests

Directions

  1. Squeeze one orange zest into double rocks glass
  2. Add syrup and bitters and coat inside of glass with mixture
  3. Add 30ml spirit and half fill glass with ice
  4. Stir gently for 30sec
  5. Add other 30ml of spirit and stir gently for 30sec
  6. Squeeze other orange zest over drink and garnish with spent zest

DIY cocktail recipe #5: Whiskey Sour

Whiskey Sours are garnished with a maraschino cherry, and ours are shaken with egg white

Ingredients

  • 60ml whisk(e)y
  • 30ml lemon juice
  • 15ml sugar syrup
  • 2 dashes egg white

Directions

  1. Dry shake all ingredients hard, then add ice and shake again
  2. Strain over fresh ice into double rocks glass
  3. Garnish with lemon wedge and maraschino cherry

Cocktails at Jimmy’s Bar and Lounge

While it’s fun to play bartender at home, sometimes it’s a little more relaxing to go out and have a drink with friends. Here at The Westport Club’s Jimmy’s Bar and Lounge, we’ve got an array of cocktails that will quench anyone’s thirst. Our master mixologists carefully craft each drink as you watch, which is hypnotising in itself. And if fruity drinks aren’t your style, come and sample our whiskey menu .We’ve got over 100 different whiskeys on offer. We look forwarding to seeing you, and hearing about your experiments with our DIY cocktail recipes. Come relax with a drink at The Westport Club!