Recipes
Recipes
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National Comic Book Day: Celebrating Cocktails & Comics
The Cocktail Cadre team originally posted these drinks on National Comic Book Day 2020. As fans of comics and cocktails, we encourage you to sample both and let us know your favorites. September 25th is National Comic Book Day, so the
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Encounter at Farpoint: A Cocktail for the Anniversary of Star Trek The Next Generation
I created this cocktail in September 2020 to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the debut of Star Trek: The Next Generation on September 28th, 1987. I call this one "Encounter at Farpoint." Star Trek: TNG introduced a lot of different drinks
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Guy Fawkes’ Day Cocktail: The Parkin Highball
I am well-known among my friends for celebrating obscure holidays. While I love the mainstream holidays here in the states such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, I will also make a special dinner, decorate my kitchen chalkboard, or develop a
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Four Gin Cocktail Recipes
Cocktail Cadre has the pleasure of sponsoring a spirits tasting table at the annual Pasadena Education Network's Wine and Spirits Tasting fundraiser event in May 2022. Cadre co-founder Martin picked three different types of gin to help showcase the wide
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Negroni Week: Negroni Plus One
To celebrate Negroni Week in 2021, the Cadre picked a theme of "Negroni Plus One," by taking a standard Negroni and then adding just a single ingredient to make something new and different. In a few cases, we altered the
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Boulevardier Three Ways
For Negroni Week in 2020, all three members of the Cadre experimented with a few different Negroni-adjacent cocktails then video-chatted about them due to the pandemic lockdowns. After making a standard Negroni on the first night, we opted for a
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Negroni Sour
A drink just in time for 2022's Negroni Week, which runs from September 12th - 18th, this is a Negroni Sour created by Cadre co-founder Martin in 2021. It features a three-part shaking technique taught to him by his favorite
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Negroni Fizz
During the pandemic lockdowns, the founders of the Cadre were desperate for companionship and also to visit our favorite local pubs again. These are places we had been visiting for years and at which we'd developed friendships with the bartenders,
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The Black Beetle
A stirred and strong cocktail created for National Comic Book Day in 2021 in celebration of the character Black Beetle. National Comic Book happens every year on September 25th. Make yourself a cocktail, grab a comic book (use the Comic Shop
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We Happy Few
One does not need an excuse or a reason to make a cocktail. Sometimes, "it's Tuesday" is enough. But sometimes, it's fun to have some inspiration and make a celebration behind the art of cocktail hour. St. Crispin's Day is
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Rye-Lo Ren: A Cocktail for May the 4th
There are a ton of Star Wars themed cocktails out there, but frankly, with a few exceptions, many of them are not very good (do not get me started on the one that includes mixing Gin, Vodka [why?] and Rum
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The Rye-Fighter: A Cocktail for May the 4th
As I mentioned in my post on another cocktail I created to celebrate May the 4th, Rye-Lo Ren, as a huge fan of Star Wars, I was disappointed with the lack of proper cocktails associated with one of my favorite