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.

Much A-Woo Woo About Nothing

Royal Shakespeare Company

'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

Royal Shakespeare Company

'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

Royal Shakespeare Company

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

Ingredients:

50ml of vodka

Topped up with orange juice

Cleopolitan

Royal Shakespeare Company

'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

Royal Shakespeare Company

'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

Royal Shakespeare Company

'Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself?'

Ingredients:

50ml of gin

25ml of Calvados

15ml of lemon juice

One egg white

Mint Juliet

Royal Shakespeare Company

'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

Royal Shakespeare Company

'That heinous tiger, Tamora...'

Ingredients:

50ml of vodka and 10ml of grenadine

Pomegranate juice poured over crushed ice

Lear Kir Royale

Royal Shakespeare Company

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

Ingredients:

20ml of Crème de Cassis

Topped up with champagne