- 2 - - 3 - The AMPM Drinks List - Vol 3 June 2020 First published in 2020 by AMPM Restaurant 38 - 42 Upper Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GH www.ampmbelfast.com No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, withour permission from AMPM Restaurant. Head Mixologist - Eugene Blagoci - 4 - CONTENTS BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS 9 FRUITY COCKTAILS 22 PUNCHES 41 SIGNATURE COCKTAILS 46 PINK COCKTAILS 54 AMPM ORIGINALS 61 DIGESTIF & DESSERT COCKTAILS 67 WHITE WINE 74 ROSÉ 74 RED WINE 75 DESSERT WINES & PORT 75 SPARKLING WINE, PROSECCO AND CHAMPAGNE 76 PROSECCO SPRITZERS 77 SPIRITS 78 TALL DRINKS & GIN PERFECT SERVES 80 BEER, CIDERS, SOFT DRINKS, & PREMIUM MIXERS 81 MR FITZ AQUA SPRITZ 82 HOT DRINKS 84 INDEX 88 - 5 - - 6 - - 7 - - 8 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS BELLINI £12.50 Created by Giuseppe Cipriani at Harry's Bar, Venice, Italy in 1945 and named after the 15th-century Venetian painter Giovani Bellini due to the drinks hue and the painter's use of colour on his canvases. QUICK FACTS The Bellini's home, Harry's Bar is said to have been often frequented by Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Dorthy Parker and Orson Wells, and it continues to be a celebrity haunt to this day. INGREDIENTS 01. Add ice to a cocktail shaker, then 120 ml Prosecco add, blended freshly puréed peach 60 ml Fresh puréed peach and lemon juice. Shake vigorously 7.5 ml Lemon juice 02. Strain contens into a champagne Freshly Squeezed flute GARNISH 03. Top with prosecco Peach slice 04. Garnish with a slice of peach EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Cocktail shaker, Champagne flute - 9 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS BLOODY MARY £10.50 The origins of the Bloody Mary like many cocktails are open to debate. The French bartender Fernand Petiot claimed that he invented the drink while working at the famed Harry's New York Bar. The Bloody Mary started life as a potent mix of half Vodka and half tomato juice; the recipe was then further developed by Petiot with seasonings such as Tobasco, horseradish, celery salt and lemon juice. The cocktail was at one point called the 'Red Snapper' before being renamed the Bloody Mary. QUICK FACTS The Tobasco used in a bloody mary to give its signature kick takes its name from the chilli variety used to produce it, known as Capsicum Frutescens or the tabasco pepper. INGREDIENTS 01. Rim the edge of a hiball glass with 50 ml Vodka salt and pepper 15 ml Sherry 02. Add a ring of finely chopped 1 ring Yellow Pepper yellow pepper to the base of 90 ml Tomato Juice a shaker and muddle with a 15 ml Lemon Juice muddler Freshly Squeezed 03. Add ice to the shaker then 7.5 ml Sugar Syrup add, vodka, sherry, tomato 4 dashes Worcestershire Sauce juice, lemon juice, sugar syrup, 5 dp. Tobasco Worcestershire sauce and tobasco. 2 p. Celery Salt Shake vigorously. 3 p. Black Pepper 04. Add ice to a collins glass, strain GARNISH contents of shaker into the glass Salt & Pepper, Celery Stick, Gherkin 05. Garnish with a piece of the celery EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE stick and a small gherkin Cocktail shaker, Strainer, Muddler, Hiball glass - 10 - - 11 - - 12 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS BLUSHING MIMOSA £11.95 The Mimosa's origins can be traced back to 1925, and it is said to have been created by Frank Meier at The Ritz Hotel, Paris a full four-years after the invention of Buck's Fizz in 1921 at The Buck's Club in London. The Mimosa has also said to have been later invented by film director Alfred Hitchcock in San Fransisco in the 1940s. QUICK FACTS The name of the cocktail comes from the flowers of the mimosa plant, which are yellow. INGREDIENTS 01. Fill a Collins glass and fill with ice 90 ml Prosecco 02. Pour 45ml of prosecco over the 60 ml Orange juice ice, then orange juice, followed by Freshly Squeezed pineapple juice, and another 45ml 30 ml Pineapple Juice of prosecco 10 ml Grenadine 03. Gently pour in grenadine and allow to sink through the cocktail GARNISH 04. Garnish with a dehydrated orange Dehydrated Orange Wheel wheel or small pineapple wedge EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Cocktail shaker, Strainer, Collins Glass - 13 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS BREAKFAST MARTINI £9.90 The Breakfast Martini was invented in 1996 by the long-term president of the United Kingdom's Bartender's Guild, Salvatore Calabrese. Similar cocktails have allegedly come before it with a comparable drink featured in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. QUICK FACTS Ian Fleming's 1957 novel From Russia, With Love, it's revealed that James Bond - arguably the most famous Martini fan- has marmalade on his toast in the mornings. INGREDIENTS 01. Add marmalade and gin to a 50 ml Gin cocktail shaker. Stir with a bar Gordons spoon until combined 10 ml Cointreau 02. Add ice, Cointreau and lemon 10 ml Lemon Juice juice to the shaker. Shake Freshly Squeezed vigorously 1 tbsp. English Marmalade 03. Strain into a chilled martini glass GARNISH 04. Garnish with orange peel Orange peel EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Cocktail shaker, Strainer, Bar spoon, Martini glass - 14 - - 15 - - 16 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS NEGRONI £10.50 There are many accounts of how the Negroni came to be. One version has it that Count Camillio Negroni invented this drink by asking his bartender to substitute the soda water in his favourite cocktail (the Americano) for something more robust. Soda water substituted for gin, and the Negroni was born. QUICK FACTS Legendary actor Orson Welles discovered the cocktail while shooting Black Magic in Rome in 1947, lauding the drink's balance, saying, "The bitters are excellent for your health, the gin is bad for you. They balance each other." INGREDIENTS 01. Add ice to an Old Fashioned glass, 35 ml Gin then add gin, vermouth and 35 ml Sweet Vermouth Campari to the glass and stir 35 ml Campari 02. Garnish with orange peel GARNISH Orange peel EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Bar spoon, Old fashioned glass - 17 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS ESPRESSO MARTINI £9.90 The Espresso Martini was invented in 1983 by Dick Bradsell at the Soho Brasserie. The Espresso Martini started life when a customer asked for a drink that would wake her up. When asked why he settled on this particular mix of ingredients, he told Difford's Guide, "The coffee machine at the Soho Brasserie was right next to the station where I served drinks. It was a nightmare, as there were coffee grounds everywhere, so coffee was very much on my mind, and it was all about Vodka back then - it was all people drank". QUICK FACTS While the recipe has mainly stayed the same, the espresso martini was initially called the 'Vodka Espresso', and later a variation called the 'Pharmaceutical Stimulant' was created and served on-the-rocks at Pharmacy in Nottinghill, London INGREDIENTS 01. Add Vodka, Kahlúa, freshly made 35 ml Vodka espresso, and sugar syrup to a Kettle One cocktail shaker then add ice. Shake 35 ml Kalúha vigorously 35 ml Espresso 02. Strain into a martini glass Freshly Squeezed 03. Garnish with 3 coffee beans 10 ml Sugar Syrup GARNISH Three Coffee Beans EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Cocktail shaker, Strainer, Coffee maker of choice, Martini glass - 18 - - 19 - - 20 - BRUNCH & APERITIF COCKTAILS APEROL SPRITZ £11.50 The origin of the Aperol Spritz dates back to the early 1800s and the Napoleonic wars. In the aftermath of the wars, Austria-Hungary took ownership of the Veneto region of northern Italy, where Venice is located. For the next 50 years, Austrians took the local Italian wine and added a splash, or in German, a "spritz," of water. Over time the water turned to sparkling water, and the still wine morphed into wine fortified with a liqueur. The liqueur of choice quickly became Aperol. QUICK FACTS In 2003, Gruppo Campari bought the Aperol brand and used its global distribution to its advantage, and it wasn't long until Aperol became the best-selling liquor in Italy. INGREDIENTS 01. Add ice to a glass, then add Aperol 90 ml Prosecco and prosecco. Freshly Squeezed 02. Top with soda water 60 ml Aperol 03. Garnish with an orange slice 60 ml Soda Water GARNISH Orange wedge EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Vintage Cocktail Glass - 21 - FRUITY COCKTAILS STRAWBERRY DAIQUIRI £9.90 Daiquirí is the name of a beach on the south-eastern shore of Cuba and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba. The Daiquiri was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer, named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba at the time of the Spanish–American War. William A. Chanler, a US congressman who purchased the Santiago iron mines in 1902, is rumoured to have introduced the Daiquiri to clubs in New York in that year. QUICK FACTS July 19th is International Daiquiri day, the drink was also a tipple of choice of auhour Ernest Hemingway. INGREDIENTS 01. Add ice, rum, lime juice, sugar 50 ml White Rum syrup and strawberries to a 25 ml Lime Juice blender and blend Freshly Squeezed 02. Pour the blended mixture into a 25 ml Sugar Syrup chilled coupe glass 5 Strawberries 03. Garnish with a strawberry GARNISH Strawberry EQUIPMENT & GLASSWARE Blender, Coupe glass - 22 - - 23 - - 24 - FRUITY COCKTAILS BRAMBLE £10.50 The Bramble was created in the mid-1980s by Dick Bradsell at Fred's Club in Soho, London. Created while working as the bar manager at Fred's Club, he planned to invent a genuinely British drink. The drink is said to take its name from the winding nature the liqueur takes when poured into the glass.