This weekend I made two cocktails from the pack of cocktail recipes that Emmet and Christina bought us for a wedding pressie (along with glasses and a shaker, they don't do things by halves!).

They were randomly selected so it was just chance that they both contained one of Ian's favourite drinks - ginger beer. And they were both very easy to make.


Sailor's Quaff is a mixture of dark rum and ginger beer with a little hit of fresh orange and a handful of ice. Very refreshing and tasty. Ian was a big fan.


Shandy Gaff turned out to just be lager shandy made with ginger beer. Perhaps unsurprisingly this tasted just like ginger beer. Of course it was only half the strength of a pint of unsullied lager but it was so tasty and light it was drunk in a third of the time.