If his brilliant minimalist cocktail posters are anything to go by, it must permanently be Pimm’s O’Clock at Nick Barclay Designs! One request for a new drink though, where’s my Mojito please Nick?
Bellini
4 ounces Champagne
2 peach puree
1 splash Grenadine
Fine sugar
Bloody Mary
2 ounces Vodka
4 ounces tomato juice
½ tablespoon lemon juice
1 splash Worcestershire sauce
3 to 4 dashes Tabasco
1 teaspoon horseradish
Stalk of celery
Cosmopolitan
2 ounces Vodka
1 ounce Cointreau
1 ounce cranberry juice
1 ounce lime juice
Daiquiri
2 ounces White Rum
½ teaspoon superfine sugar
½ ounce lime juice
Manhattan
2 ounces Rye Whiskey
1 ounce Italian Vermouth
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Twist of orange
Maraschino cherry
Margarita
2 ounces Silver Tequila
1 ounce Cointreau
1 ounce lime juice
Garnish rim with salt
Martini
4 ounces Gin
1 ounce Dry Vermouth
Cocktail Onion (Gibson)
Twist of lemon
Olive
Negroni
1 pt Gin
1 pt Sweet Vermouth
1 pt Campari
Ball of ice
Twist of orange
Old-Fashioned
1 sugar cube
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Club soda
2 ounces Rye Whiskey
Large ice cube
Sazerac
1 sugar cube
2 ½ ounces Rye Whiskey
2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Absinthe
Lemon peel
All of these posters are available to buy from Nick Barclay Designs as A3, A2 or Ikea Ribba prints on matte paper (frame not included). If you’re thinking of making the real thing using any of the cocktail recipes shown above, please also remember to drink responsibly. Chin chin!
Some really cool images