Fred's Cocktails and Cruises

Negroni Sour

30ml Tequerary Ten, 30ml Campari, 30ml Martini Riserva Special Rubino vermouth, 45ml lemon juice, 20ml simple syrup and an egg white

Day 14 of my lock down cocktail countdown and here is something a bit more unusual but delicious.

A Negroni Sour. I drink negroni’s in the evening after dinner and have literally a hundred different recipies. This is one I drink in the early evening, at cocktail hour.

It is made up with 30ml each of Tequerary Ten, Campari and Martini Riserva Special Rubino vermouth.To this add 45ml lemon juice, 20ml simple syrup and an egg white. Dry shake then add ice and reshake

Cosmo 43

40ml Absolut Vanilla Vodka, 40ml Licor 43, 40ml lemon juice and 40ml Cranberry juice

Day 13 of my lock down cocktail countdown and as the news gets grimmer I’m going to persever and make a different cocktail every night until I can have one for real on board

Tonight it’s a Cosmo 43… a slight twist on a Cosmopolitan with a Spanish twist

Bird is the Word No1

Equal parts Don Julio Respado, Yellow Chartreuse,apricot Brandy and lemon juice

For myself I’ve made a the Bird is the Word No1…

Dry Martini Taste off

50ml Gin, 30ml Noilly Prat.

Day 12 of my lock down cocktail countdown and in reply to Mary Messier Wrinn and Linda Joyce Adam I’m doing a martini gin tasting for my DW. Tanquery Ten Vs Star of Bombay both at 50ml with 30ml Noilly Prat.

Both these gins are available on board so please use your beverage package on your next cruise to further scientifically taste test these gins.

Dry Martini

60ml Tanqueray Ten and 30ml Dolin Extra Dray stirred with ice

As the doom mounts on day 11 of my lock down cocktail countdown I’m going simple and a martini but this time with Tanqueray Ten and Dolin

Bar Tender on Acid

40ml coconut rum, 30ml Amaro Nardini, 10ml dark rum, 20ml Green Chartreuse, 10ml lime, 30ml pineapple. Shake with ice, serve in an iced martini glass.

10th day of my lock down cocktail countdown and here’s a wierdly rather good one by Brooklyn bartender Garret Richards. It’s called the Bartender on Acid.40ml coconut rum, 30ml Amaro Nardini, 10ml dark rum, 20ml Green Chartreuse,10ml lime and 30ml pineapple. Surprisingly good and all the ingredients are available on boardI had planned to do a different cocktail every night of this corona lockdown but current UK government advice is for the older and more vulnerable members of our society to lock down for 12 weeks…. That’s 84 different recipes

Zacapa Old Fashioned

60ml Zacapa 23, 10ml simple syrup, 2 dashes Angostura Bitters, 2 dashes Chocolate bitters. Stirred over ice and served in a rocks glass with a large cube and garnished with an expressed lemon zest and a grate of dark chocolate.

…….But for my dearest gastronome a Zacapa Old fashioned from the WCB (almost as good as the ones Osman Umit Ergean made for her last October)

Averna Jim Jam

60ml Averna, 30ml apricot brandy, 30ml of lemon. Shake with ice, serve in an iced martini glass.

tonight a favourite cocktail for me but one that may not be to everyone’s taste called an Averna Jim Jam a composed of 60ml Averna, 30ml apricot brandy and 30ml of lemon…..

Japanese Slipper

40ml Cintreau, 40ml Midori, 40ml Lime, Shake with ice, serve in an iced martini glass and garnish with a cocktail cherry

Last August we spent an evening in Michael’s and the Ensemble Lounge and I finally worked out why many of the cocktails made on board are often over sweet. Most bars other than the Martini and WCB don’t use Lime or Lemon but a mix instead that has a lot of sugar and doesn’t quite taste of either. Well we fixed it and the bartender in the Ensemble Lounge made me a Japanese slipper that tasted right. I first had this cocktail in 1984 in Stringfellows in London and it is a equal mix of lime, Midori and Cointreau.So for my 8th night of lockdown with bars and clubs across the UK closed I’ll bring back memories of that night in August aboard the Silhouette

Swiss Watch

30ml Kirsch, 30ml Suze, 30ml Yellow Chartreuse, 20ml lemon juice

The glass should be rimmed with sugar but personally I prefer it without. Oh and sorry Mari Jo Jones I can’t deliver.