How to make cocktails at home
Here at Candra we’re all about sharing our decades of experience in cocktail bars, drinks education, judging cocktail competitions and the broader booze industry to help you make better drinks at home.
This guide is here to help you make better drinks for the garden, pool, beach and anywhere else for that matter. Beyond this, we’ll also help you be more confident when it comes to what and how you order cocktails in bars too.
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Celebrate With These Negroni Variations
Negroni week 2023 is celebrated from the 18th to the 24th of September. We have a great list of Negroni variations and Negroni adjacent recipes for you to try, that appeal to a wide variety of different palates and allow everyone to get involved with Negroni week.
7 Best Gins for Cocktails
The Ultimate Cocktail Ingredient? Gin is one of the all-time great cocktail bases. It’s been mixed into concoctions since the very origins of cocktails and shows no sign of letting up. Why is it so popular in the world of cocktails? For a number of reasons. Why is Gin popular in cocktails? Firstly, good timing. … Read more
Sean Harrison – Meet the Expert
Sean Harrison is one of the preeminent distillers in the world. He left the British Royal Navy in 1994 and began working at the historic Plymouth Gin distillery in Plymouth England, the oldest still working Gin distillery in the UK. He was trained by the world’s most experienced Gin distiller, Desmond Payne, and has since … Read more
Tales Of The Cocktail 2023
Tales of the Cocktail. If you’ve never been, how do you even describe it? We’ve been lucky enough to visit New Orleans for TOTC (Tales of the Cocktail) as a collective 27 times, so you might say we’re pretty experienced! So what is ‘Tales of the Cocktail (TOTC)’? Founded in 2003 by just a small … Read more
Spritz Your Way Lunch, Luxardo Enters a New Era
In a bright and lively open-air rooftop Italian restaurant in New York’s flatiron district, we were invited to join some of the industry’s best-known writers and presenters to enjoy a delicious Mediterranean lunch, along with a spritz or two. Yes yes, tough work, but someone has to do it! The reason for this delightful midweek … Read more
Dave Mitton – Meet the Expert
Dave has a great passion when it comes to enlightening people about the history, production and of course the creation of cocktails with Canadian Whisky. He was the co-owner and operator of several well-known restaurants and bars in Toronto as well as the inaugural President of The Canadian Professional Bartenders Association, Ontario Chapter. Canadian Whisky … Read more
5 Fundamental Cocktail Techniques to Master
There are countless fun and interesting techniques when it comes to making cocktails. Some are used to make drinks themselves and others are used to make ingredients with which to make cocktails. Here we’ll be focusing on the most classical, commonly used, and therefore important cocktail making techniques you need to know. These are the … Read more
Kiowa Bryan – Meet the Expert
Kiowa Bryan hails from Vermont originally, where she took her first job in hospitality over 20 years ago. It was while behind the bar at The Eveleigh in Los Angeles that she first tasted a Ti’Punch and realized her intended career path advocating for the education of all things Rhum Agricole and the French Caribbean. … Read more
Summer Cocktails To Make At Home
Summer, summer, summer-time! This summer we’ve pulled together the most refreshing, and most delicious, selection of recipes to celebrate the warmest months of the year with your favourite people. You’ll find a mix of classic cocktails and Candra original recipes to suit every taste, occasion and complexity. What more can we say? Keep cool and … Read more
Simon Ford – Meet the Expert
Simon Ford is considered a leading voice of the global cocktail and bar community with over 25 years experience in bartending, educating on cocktails and spirits, and marketing some of the biggest spirits brands on the planet. After several years working in the wine industry, he moved into the world of spirits, launching Plymouth Gin … Read more
