Signature cocktails recipes

Signature cocktails recipe: Courtesy United Spirits Limited   

Black and White: Orange and Mint Julep

45ml Black and White, 4 slices of orange, 8-10 mint leaves, topped with Ginger ale. This drink is built in a hi-ball glass over cubed ice and stirred quickly before service.

Share your love for scotch with this sweet and refreshing drink -grainy and sweet notes of this exceptionally smooth Scotch whisky combined with the citrusy notes of orange pronounced with an aroma of mint.

 Black Dog Black Reserve: Sunset Cinnamon

45ml Black Dog Black Reserve, 10 ml Cinnamon syrup, 2 of Maraschino Cherries, 5 dashes Angostura bitters. Stir all the ingredients over ice and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Unwind yourself with our twist on the classic American cocktail, a rich sweetness from cinnamon stirred with Scotch and bitters served on the rocks.

 Red Label: The Red Label Mule

45ml Johnnie Walker Red Label, 2 squeezes fresh lime, 2 dashes of Angostura bitters and topped with Ginger ale. This drink is built in a hi-ball glass over cubed ice and stirred quickly before service to mix.

This simple serve displays Johnnie Red label at its finest, marrying the spice and smoky notes with ginger ale, a squeeze of citrus and a splash of bitters.

 Black Label: West Coast Julep

45ml Johnnie Walker Black Label, 20 ml ginger infused honey syrup, 30ml apple juice, 10 fresh mint leaves, 5 ml lime juice. Add all ingredients to shaker and shake hard. Then double strain into a rocks glass, add crushed ice and serve with a fresh mint sprig garnish.

Our twist on the classic American cocktail, fresh mint and a rich honey sweetness are shaken with apple and served on crushed ice for this nod to a whisky classic.

The above content has been extracted from USL's #LoveScotch Press Release and all rights belong to USL.

Music and Mind games at #LoveScotch Pub Crawl Week 2

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ~  Martin Luther

The same could just as easily be said about Scotch! Requires a specialist to make, can soothe the mind and has to definitely got to be a gift from God.  :) 

Kudos to the creative guys at USL and their associate companies to bring together a Musical Talent and a Mind reader extraordinaire for the continued advocacy of Scotch. Nakul Shenoy and Anushka Manchanda, both Scotch lovers, multi talented and extremely energetic and fun people.

 

Week 2 of the #LoveScotch campaign saw us heading to 1 of my favorite brew pubs in #Bangalore, Arbor Brewing Company but the event kick started at 1 of the new hip joints, The Permit Room.

What was really nice to see was that the patrons of the pub really get excited on seeing the #LoveScotch cocktail menu and I noticed a lot of people ordering off that and waxing eloquent about it. 

 

What they perhaps dint realize is that the cocktails were being mixed by master mixologist Andrew Qadri who is a reserve brand ambassador for USL.
I had the unique opportunity to not only interact with him but also with James Walker another master mixologist and USL brand ambassador. Needless to say, am far more enlightened and wiser about Scotch :)

Meanwhile we had Anuskha and Nakul mixing up a storm of cocktails at the bar surrounded by admirers who wanted to taste all the magic.

I also got to spend some time discussing scotch with Anushka and Nakul and had some interesting stories to hear. From Nakuls love for VAT69 to Anushkas passion for Black Label, stemming from her dad's love for it.
Extremely sweet and jovial set of people.

Was also nice of Anushka to have decided to do an impromptu gig at ABC which had the crowd get really excited.

All in all a very memorable evening thanks to USL. Made even more special with the amazing set of friends and cocktails that go hand in hand :)

I was lucky Andrew mixed a special set of Red Label Mule for me that has me in love with this cocktail, making it my all time favorite. Step aside Whisky sour.

History will confirm i have never been buzzed at 9.30 ever before, but hey there's always a FIRST  :) LOL

Looking forward to week 3 :)

Drink responsibly 

#LoveScotch... A splendid evening involving #Scotch & scotch lovers

                                                      Love, love me do

You know I love you, I'll always be true, So please, love me do, Whoa, love me do.

Nostalgic inducing lyrics aren't they.

Well, I had a nostalgic filed Saturday evening.

The occasion was a momentous one.

World Whisky Day.

United spirits launched a stellar campaign, #LoveScotch.

Scotch is something we love to savor and this evening was certainly one to savor. It resonated with us whisky lovers perfectly.

The stage was set at ShangriLa Bangalore. The perfect location. Celebrities graced the occasion of this momentous launch at India's Pub Capital "Namma Bengaluru".

The Spotlight was completely focused on  

International Supermodel Coco Rocha.

Bangalore heartthrob Dino Morea.

The Punjabi Beauty Mandira Bedi.

The brooding hunk Randeep Hooda.

We got to interact with them, learn about their favorite whiskey and how they like to drink them. Not to miss out the fun photo shoot getting to take #Selfies and sound bytes with these beautiful and absolutely wonderful people. So down to earth and friendly, it felt like this was more a gathering of friends which is the magic one experiences when you get to indulge in your favorite Scotch although that part was to come later.

 

  

Would you like to know how each of them prefer to have their drink? Here is how they like their Scotch:

Coco Rocha - Loves Black Label with Ginger Ale. I got to try this one and I can vouch for this. It tasted like Heaven.

Mandira Bedi - Loves Singleton with 2 blocks ice. That's it. The perfect way to savor it. Hearing about how she shares a drink with her Dad when in Delhi was a delight.

Randeep Hooda - Is a Black Dog guy. Loves it as cocktails in the day and with ice and Water in the evenings.

Dino Morea - Loves Black & White. Favorite Cocktail is Whisky Sour :) 

The panel discussion and interaction between them was extremely fun and really had the crowd cheering and wanting more. Hearing about their stories, anecdotes and incidents was the highlight.

Like Randeep Hooda owns a horse called Johnnie Walker.

Mandira Bedi has a ritualistic drink with her father every time she is in Delhi. 

And best of all is that when Rajiv Mehta, CEO Arvind Lifestyles ltd. was at INSEAD Singapore, he revealed professors used to allow students to drink alcohol in class if it helped them do better. 

Can you believe that?

The party then moved to Skyye Bar at UB City where the crowd went crazy on spotting the celebration. People were jostling for space to get a glimpse of their favorite stars.


The finale was at Sanchos UB city where we wound down our pub crawl with more celebrity mixing and scotch tasting. I do wish we could have spent more time at the pub crawls but all in all it was an extremely memorable evening. One that has memories to cherish for a lifetime.





To top it all we got to taste some extremely brilliant cocktails made by some very talented people behind the bar. A very well put together ensemble of ingredients left everybody wanting MORE!

        

We also got to see the stars mixing their own drinks and creating interesting cocktails. I wish we could taste them but Dino Morea assured me that they came out really well. 

                  


Looking forward to the next one.

P.S. ALWAYS #DrinkResponsibly and remember, Never Drink and Drive :)