Raise a toast to dad

If your dad, like so many of them do, enjoys the simple life, don’t reinvent the wheel this Father’s Day. Serve up the warming, spicy notes of an Old Fashioned alongside some quintessential food staples – steaks, eggs, seasoned BBQ food.

To make the ultimate Old Fashioned, we suggest you’ll need:

• 60ml Bulleit bourbon
• 10ml 2:1 sugar syrup (two parts sugar dissolved over heat into one part water)
• Two dashes of aromatic bitters
• A slice of orange peel.

To make:

• Fill a rocks glass with ice With a jigger, pour in your whisky
• Add the syrup and aromatic bitters Stir and finish with an orange peel garnish.

When it comes to celebrating your Dad in style, you can't go wrong with a French 75.

You’ll need:

• 30ml London Dry Gin
• 15ml sugar syrup 15ml
• fresh lemon juice
• Champagne

To make:

• Fill a shaker with ice and add your gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup
• Shake hard for about 30 seconds
• Strain into a Champagne glass and top with Champagne.

Have a Dad who likes to walk on the wilder side? If you got your spicy streak from your father, toast him with the finest Spicy Margarita.

You’ll need:

• 50ml Blanco tequila (we love Casamigos)
• 25ml triple sec 
• 20ml lime juice 
• Lime wedges
• Jalapeno slice 
• Tajin.

To make: 

• First, prepare your glass by rubbing a freshly cut lime against one side and rolling it in Tajin for the salted rim effect
• Next, muddle a jalapeno in the bottom of a cocktail shaker (add more jalapenos if you want it extra spicy) 
• Add ice and then pour in your tequila, triple sec and lime juice
• Shake hard
• Strain into your rimmed glass.

The addition of an egg white makes this cocktail silky-smooth and creamy, but it's still an exceptional serve without; a cocktail that really lets the whiskey shine.

You’ll need:

• 50ml whiskey (traditionally bourbon, but you can choose a different malt)
• 25ml lemon juice
• 20ml sugar syrup
• Two dashes of aromatic bitters
• An egg white.

To make:

• Add your whiskey, lemon juice, sugar syrup and bitters to a shaker without ice
• Dry shake (meaning shake without ice) for about 20 seconds
• Open your shaker and add ice and shake again until the surface of the shaker is cold
• Strain into a rocks glass with ice

The Paloma is not too sweet, not too dry – a beautiful balance of strong, summery flavours.

You’ll need:

• 50ml blanco tequila (try Don Julio for a truly elevated moment)
• 20ml pink grapefruit juice
• 10ml lime juice
• 10ml agave syrup
• Grapefruit soda.

To make:

• Fill a highball glass with ice
• With a jigger, add in your tequila, grapefruit juice, lime juice and
• agave syrup
• Top with grapefruit soda.