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Malibu, Blue Curaçao and pineapple juice, shaken, topped with lemonade and about as blue as a drink can be. The Electric Smurf is a pub classic that takes two minutes and one shaker. Sweet, cold and not remotely serious. Serves...
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Fresh orange juice and cold bubbles, equal parts, and brunch is sorted. The Mimosa is the easiest drink you will make all week and the hardest to make badly: keep everything cold and squeeze the oranges yourself. This one is...
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Bright green, equal parts and invented in Melbourne. Jean-Paul Bourguignon first mixed the Japanese Slipper at Mietta's in 1984: Midori for the melon, Cointreau for the orange, fresh lemon to keep it sharp. You need a shaker, some ice and...
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Gin, fresh lemon and a glass packed with crushed ice, then a drizzle of blackberry liqueur that bleeds purple down through the ice. London bartender Dick Bradsell created the Bramble in 1984, and bars have poured it ever since. You...
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Gin, fresh lemon, a little sugar and a long pour of soda over ice. The Tom Collins has been the tall drink of choice since the 1870s, and it is still the easiest way to make a bottle of gin...
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