Drink your way to sustainability with discarded vermouth! Made from the discarded fruit of coffee production. Perfect for any bartender, home-bartender or cocktail enthusiast who enjoys a spot of sustainable drinking Recently I was gifted a bottle of Discarded Cascara Vermouth. As you may already know. Here at Easysipping, we are very much focused on sustainable drinking. Therefore, discarded is a brand we were more then happy to receive a bottle from. #gifted So I figured, whats the best way to show you this sustainable product? I could review it? Easy, it’s delicious. Review over. How about ..read more

Do you have a cocktail that you’ve created which you want to be featured on Easysipping? Perfect, because we are now accepting cocktail submissions. For the longest time, Easysipping has been a place to for me to share tips, flavour combinations and techniques to create the perfect cocktail. Throughout this journey, i have shared dozens of my own cocktail creations. However, things are changing. Easysipping has grown into a platform for the humble cocktail enthusiast and now, i want to share that platform with you! I want to do that by sharing your cocktail recipes with the drinks world. So i ..read more

If you are not a wine enthusiast, then you must be wondering if winter wines are even a thing. While they may not come with a tag of a ‘winter-wine’, people certainly love to have a glass of some selected ones in the cold weather. That, however, doesn’t mean you cannot drink them during other seasons, it means that it makes more sense drinking them when the atmosphere is cold. These wines come with a distinct taste, different notes, and unique profile. That means once you feel the season shifting to winter, get yourself bottles of winter wines and have an incredible time by the fireplace. The ..read more

With Coronavirus, the dreaded Covid-19 looming around. Bars, restaurants and hotels are losing customers fast. the food and drink industry are feeling the affect of reduced tourism and lack of social gatherings. Bars, restaurants and hotels have seen a massive influx of booking cancellations. My social media is bombarded by bars and restaurants releasing covid-19 statements about their battle with coronavirus.  Bars and restaurant are being forced to close there doors, and the one who are still operating, are doing so on lower hours for their staff, and to make things worse. This ..read more

Bartenders have actively been looking to reduce bar waste. And with consumers becoming more aware of the environment, if you’re not getting down with sustainable bartending and zero waste cocktails, you’re going to end up stuck in the past. Sustainable bartending helps for fresher ingredients, a clearer conscience and if you work for a bar. Improved profits and higher GP percentages. So, get on board. I mean who doesn’t want to save the planet one tasty guilt free cocktail at a time? What are sustainable cocktails? Sustainable cocktails are cocktails that are more in harmony with natur ..read more

Valentine’s day cocktails don’t have to be difficult or time consuming. They dont have to take hours of prep and searching around shops to find all the necessary ingredients. They can be easy and quick to make following the right recipe, they can be just as romantic as a home cooked dinner. With accessible and easy to find ingredients. Heck, some of the best valentine’s day cocktail recipes i’ve made have consisted of 2 ingredients. Valentine’s day comes but once a year. And if you’re wanting to make that day extra special for that extra special person (Even if that extra special p ..read more

Ah, 2019. How time flies. I did promise myself to have this post out by January the 1st and already it’s the 13th. Yikes, Way to go keeping to that new year’s resolution of better time management “patronising thumbs up to myself in the mirror” But better late than never I suppose, so here it is! My predictions for the cocktail trends of 2019. 2018 Sum-up Firstly, let’s just recap on how last year went for the industry. Last year we seen a massive rise in Spritz. Liqueurs made a comeback. Craft beers with artsy designs filled our fridges with colours. And the tequila category grew enormo ..read more

The Old-Fashioned. a healthy dose of bourbon or rye, a bit of sugar, aromatic bitters a plenty, a zest of orange and ice stirred till dilution perfection. That’s the overriding Old Fashioned cocktail recipe. A staple in cocktail history. Created way back in the 18 hundreds and yet, with new innovative cocktails being created everyday the Old Fashioned still hits the number one spot of most popular cocktail lists, its still one of, if not the most ordered of the menu cocktail in bars all around the world. survived prohibition, is probably the cocktail with the most recipe variations. and wa ..read more

Drink your way to sustainability with discarded vermouth! Made from the discarded fruit of coffee production. Perfect for any bartender, home-bartender or cocktail enthusiast who enjoys a spot of sustainable drinking Recently I was gifted a bottle of Discarded Cascara Vermouth. As you may already know. Here at Easysipping, we are very much focused on sustainable drinking. Therefore, discarded is a brand we were more then happy to receive a bottle from. #gifted So I figured, whats the best way to show you this sustainable product? I could review it? Easy, it’s delicious. Review over. How about ..read more

Do you have a cocktail that you’ve created which you want to be featured on Easysipping? Perfect, because we are now accepting cocktail submissions. For the longest time, Easysipping has been a place to for me to share tips, flavour combinations and techniques to create the perfect cocktail. Throughout this journey, i have shared dozens of my own cocktail creations. However, things are changing. Easysipping has grown into a platform for the humble cocktail enthusiast and now, i want to share that platform with you! I want to do that by sharing your cocktail recipes with the drinks world. So i ..read more