My Fathers Place on Coldharbour Lane to become a cocktail bar

[TruXta]

Maybe they make their own spirits, mixers and syrups?

Nah, you're right! Pure pretension, innit?

TBF a lot of syrups are indeed made in-house IME, at least for places a rung or two above the bottom of the barrel. It's hardly rocket science - sugar and water boiled up, mixed and cooled again.

 

[ViolentPanda]

There are some very nasty (tasting and looking) prepackaged cocktails around. They are in foil packets, you twist the lid, I can't think what the brand is called.

But "handmade" for cocktails is a stupid word.

Could be worse, they could have said "artisan-made cocktails"!

 

[TruXta]

Could be worse, they could have said "artisan-made cocktails"!

isvicthere already did that one

 

[ViolentPanda]

TBF a lot of syrups are indeed made in-house IME, at least for places a rung or two above the bottom of the barrel. It's hardly rocket science - sugar and water boiled up, mixed and cooled again.

I meant stuff like grenadine syrup, which tbf is also easy to make, as are most cordials.

 

[ViolentPanda]

isvicthere already did that one

Doh!

 

[TruXta]

An in-house distillery is an intriguing idea though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Unless they actually make their own mixers and distil their own booze calling it "hand-made" is a brazen PR lie. It's on par with saying a pint is hand-made because it was poured into a glass.

Mind you, it's easier for a small biz to get a distilling licence nowadays than it was even 10 years ago. I've often wondered whether Tulse Hill Gin ("Dry, yet red in tooth and claw") would be a seller.

E2A. About 4/5ths of the botanicals could be bought from Noor.

 

[TruXta]

Mind you, it's easier for a small biz to get a distilling licence nowadays than it was even 10 years ago. I've often wondered whether Tulse Hill Gin ("Dry, yet red in tooth and claw") would be a seller.

E2A. About 4/5ths of the botanicals could be bought from Noor.

And the water pumped up from the Effra.

On second thoughts maybe not.

 

[ViolentPanda]

And the water pumped up from the Effra.

On second thoughts maybe not.

I was thinking more "Brockwell Spring" a la Del Boy.

 

[TruXta]

I was thinking more "Brockwell Spring" a la Del Boy.

I have no idea what you're on about

 

[ViolentPanda]

I have no idea what you're on about

In "Only Fools and Horses" Del Boy was bottling his tapwater and selling it to incomers as "Peckham Spring Mineral Water".

I keep forgetting that you're culturally-depraved.

 

[TruXta]

In "Only Fools and Horses" Del Boy was bottling his tapwater and selling it to incomers as "Peckham Spring Mineral Water".

I keep forgetting that you're culturally-depraved.

Aha.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Aha.

I thought they were Swedes?

 

[TruXta]

I thought they were Swedes?

Turnips.

 

[Rushy]

Fat White Family and Champagne Holocaust getting mentions on Radio 6 today. This new bar could be a brilliant opportunity for another band to get some decent publicity. Anyone have a conveniently titled debut album - Cocktail Catastrophe maybe?

 

[TruXta]

Handmade Holocaust?

 

[editor]

Poshastrophic Cockta-mayhem?

 

[TruXta]

Artisan Apocalypse?

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Koldharbour Kockakunt?

 

[Chilavert]

Koldharbour Kockakunt?

Too far.

 

[lefteri]

You'd be disappointed if your cocktail was pre-mixed, can-style

which is the new trend in cocktails according to some alcohol trade rag article someone i know posted up on facebook recently

 

[leanderman]

which is the new trend in cocktails according to some alcohol trade rag article someone i know posted up on facebook recently

I'm disappointed

 

[lefteri]

I'm disappointed

i dunno, i think it's quite a good idea as i don't usually drink them and usually resent waiting for the whole ostentatious fandango to be over before i can get to the bar and order my beer

 

[leanderman]

i dunno, i think it's quite a good idea as i don't usually drink them and usually resent waiting for the whole ostentatious fandango to be over before i can get to the bar and order my beer

This is true.

 

[TruXta]

ROBOTIC BARTENDER AT YOUR SERVICE.

 

[Chilavert]

So pre-mixed is now cooler than made to order? Is this ironic, post-ironic or what? Either way it makes my head hurt...

 

[TruXta]

So pre-mixed is now cooler than made to order? Is this ironic, post-ironic or what? Either way it makes my head hurt...

It's ironic in the same way that Pabst Blue Ribbon became the beer du jour for hipsters.

 

[isvicthere?]

Like Kaff you mean ?

I read about "edgy" jam jars as being the last word in swanky "Shoreditch-ification". Thought it was a joke.

 

[colacubes]

I read about "edgy" jam jars as being the last word in swanky "Shoreditch-ification". Thought it was a joke.

In fairness they were doing cocktails (really really shit ones ) in paint tins during a smirnoff promotion in the Albert 18 months ago. That sort of thing jumped the shark in terms of being swanky many moons ago!

 

[isvicthere?]

Poshastrophic Cockta-mayhem?

Rum'n'riot.