The bar
Recipes
Nothing here needs a blowtorch, a centrifuge, or an opinion about strain names. Most of it is one can and something sour.
Grapefruit Rosemary Highball
Two milligrams, twelve ounces, and a rosemary sprig doing most of the heavy lifting.
build3 min1 servingMicro Paloma
A paloma that lets you drive home. Salt on the rim is not optional.
build4 min1 servingLavender Lemon Cooler
The one to hand someone who says they do not like the taste of any of this.
build3 min1 servingRoadie Mule
A mule with the vodka taken out and nothing missing.
build2 min1 serving- mind the dose
The Two-Milligram Spritz
The smallest real drink on this site, and the one to start with.
build2 min1 serving The Two-Five
The house drink. Bitter, dry, faintly floral, and small enough that you can have it while cooking dinner.
build2 min1 serving- mind the dose
The Quarter Pour
The same build at half the dose, for an afternoon where you want to feel pleasant rather than affected.
build2 min1 serving Mimosa Hour
Three milligrams at brunch, which is about as gentle as this gets.
build2 min1 servingBlack Cherry Sour
Five milligrams, properly sour, and dark enough to feel like an evening drink.
shake5 min1 servingRuby Bitter
For the person who orders Campari and soda. Genuinely bitter, genuinely adult.
build2 min1 servingDirty Cola
Cola, lime, a lot of ice. The least fussy thing on this site and one of the best.
build1 min1 servingPineapple Shrub Highball
Five milligrams of tropical, cut with vinegar so it does not read as a soft drink.
build3 min1 servingMango Chili Cooler
Ripe mango, lime and a salted chilli rim. The most food-adjacent drink here.
build3 min1 servingBlood Orange Spritz
The spritz shape, at five milligrams, with no alcohol anywhere in it.
build2 min1 servingLime and Mint Smash
Two minutes, one can, and a handful of mint you actually bruise.
build3 min1 servingTangerine Aperitivo
Bitter, orange, and built to be drunk before dinner rather than instead of it.
build2 min1 servingBlackberry Hibiscus Cooler
Dark fruit and a sour floral edge, which is a harder combination to find than it sounds.
build2 min1 servingRaspberry Lime Rickey
The soda fountain drink, done properly, at five milligrams.
build2 min1 servingMagic Mule
A real mule needs ginger heat, not ginger sweetness. This one brings its own and then borrows more.
build2 min1 servingChamomile Nightcap
The one on this list built for the end of an evening rather than the start.
build3 min1 servingGrapefruit Kush Spritz
Pine, grapefruit and rosemary, which are closer relatives than they sound.
build3 min1 servingRoot Beer Float
Exactly what it says. The only recipe here that needs a spoon.
build2 min1 serving- mind the dose
Nowadays Sour
A proper sour built on a dosed spirit rather than a can, so the format finally works.
shake5 min1 serving - mind the dose
Juice and a Half-Ounce
Fruit juice, a full glass of ice, and half an ounce of flavourless spirit. The whole point is that it tastes exactly like juice.
build2 min1 serving - mind the dose
Long Peach Tea
A 10mg shot stretched across a full pint of iced tea, on purpose.
build3 min1 serving - mind the dose
Root Beer Nightcap
Ten milligrams, vanilla, and nowhere to be in the morning.
build3 min1 serving - mind the dose
Cherry Cola Long
Ten milligrams, stretched deliberately long so it lasts an hour instead of ten minutes.
build2 min1 serving - mind the dose
Peach Iced Tea Spritz
Ten milligrams of peach tea, opened up with lemon and soda so it is not just sweet.
build2 min1 serving - mind the dose
The Flavourless Pitcher
One ounce, four glasses, and a jug that tastes like an ordinary soft drink because it essentially is one.
batch5 min4 servings - mind the dose
Session Punch
A batch punch for six where everybody knows exactly what they had.
batch10 min6 servings - mind the dose
Paloma for Four
A pitcher that stays honest, because every serving is one can.
batch8 min4 servings