9 Shakespearean Cocktails To Try On World Cocktail Day

    Today is World Cocktail Day. To celebrate, Alice – mixologist extraordinaire in the RSC Rooftop Restaurant – has created 9 Shakespearean cocktails for your delectation. Check out the recipes and get mixing! Shakespeare, not stirred.

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    by Royal Shakespeare Company

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    Much A-Woo Woo About Nothing

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    'I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?'

    Ingredients:

    25ml of vodka

    25ml of peach schnapps

    50ml of cranberry juice

    A dash of lime juice

    Puck’s Fizz

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    'Lord, what fools these mortals be!'

    Ingredients:

    12.5ml of cherry liqueur

    20ml of peach purée

    15ml of gin

    Topped up with champagne or prosecco

    Taming of the Shrewdriver

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    'If I be waspish, best beware my sting.'

    Ingredients:

    50ml of vodka

    Topped up with orange juice

    Cleopolitan

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    'But stirred by Cleopatra. Now, for the love of love and her soft hours...'

    Ingredients:

    25ml of citrus vodka

    25ml of cointreau

    20ml of cranberry juice

    15ml of lime juice

    Sceptred Isle Ice Tea

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    'This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle [iced tea], this earth of majesty...'

    Ingredients:

    15ml of gin

    15ml of white rum

    15ml of vodka

    15ml of Cointreau

    A dash of orange juice

    A dash of lemon juice

    Topped up with cola

    Pink Lady Macbeth

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    'Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself?'

    Ingredients:

    50ml of gin

    25ml of Calvados

    15ml of lemon juice

    One egg white

    Mint Juliet

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    'What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and [Mint] Juliet is the sun...'

    Ingredients:

    2 ½ tsp of demerara sugar

    8-10 mint leaves

    60ml of bourbon

    Bloody Tamora

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    'That heinous tiger, Tamora...'

    Ingredients:

    50ml of vodka and 10ml of grenadine

    Pomegranate juice poured over crushed ice

    Lear Kir Royale

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    'When the mind's free, the body's delicate...'

    Ingredients:

    20ml of Crème de Cassis

    Topped up with champagne