Raise your glasses to making it to the end of 2020! Inspired by the notorious Shelby family, these delicious cocktails will certainly lift your spirits. Mix yourself a drink, sit down in a comfy leather armchair, make a toast and enjoy… by Order of the Peaky Blinders!

The 1919

       40 ml Sexton Single Malt Irish Whiskey    20 ml green creme de menth

20 ml Noilly Prat                                            20 ml green Chartreuse

Directions 

1. Into a shaker filled with ice, pour the whiskey, the Noilly Prat, the creme de menthe and the Chartreuse.
2. Shake well and pour through a strainer into a champagne coupe or saucer, or a cocktail glass. Enjoy!

Birmingham Sour

                  30 ml lemon juice, freshly squeezed     20 ml cane sugar syrup

10 ml red wine                          60 ml rye whiskey

Directions

1. Into a shaker filled with ice, pour the lemon juice, sugar syrup, red wine and rye whiskey.
2. Shake, then pour through a strainer into an old fashioned glass. Enjoy!

Billy Kimber

30 ml Bushmills Black Bush     Malt Beet

20 ml triple sec (such as Cointreau)    Ground Cinnamon

1. Into a beer glass filled with ice, pour the Bushmills Black Bush and the triple sec.
2. Finish off with the malt beet and dust with ground cinnamon. Enjoy!

Epsom

1 Egg white  40 ml gin

20 ml Giffard Parait Amour Liqueur   20 ml Cherry Marnier Liqueur

10 ml lemon juice, freshly squeezed   Tonic water

Directions

1. Place the egg white into a shaker with no ice and shake. Add some ice cubes, along with the gin, the liqueurs and the lemon juice.
2. Shake and pour through a strainer into a stemmed beer glass with no ice. Top up with the tonic water. Enjoy!

Derby

60 ml Cognac   15 ml triple sec

10 ml lemon juice, freshly squeezed, plus zest for garnish

2 dashes of Angostura Aromatic Bitters   Sugar for decoration

Directions

1. Into a shaker filled with ice, pour the Cognac, the liqueur, the lemon juice and the bitters. Shake.
2. Create a sugar frosted rim on a tall stemmed glass and fill with crushed ice. Strain the cocktail into the glass and add slices of lemon zest. Enjoy!

By Order of The Peaky Blinders

80 ml pink grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed   salt

40 ml amber rum   20 ml Galliano

Directions

1. Insert the rim of a tall glass into the grapefruit used to make the juice, then roll the glass in salt to create a salt-frosted rim.
2. Fill the glass with ice cubes, add the rum and the grapefruit juice and finish off with the Galliano. Enjoy!

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