VIDEO: We get cute bartenders to whip up cocktails with a yummy Singapore twist

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So Cocktail Festival 2017 has drawn to a close and we’re now left on a sober downer.  Whilst the alcohol has come and gone, we’re left full of inspiration for making our own cocktails (or just heading to the nearest bar for ease of life).  Plus point of a cheeky bar trip - potential hot bartender doing all the legwork for you.

But wait, if you’re stuck at the office and the bar stool seems like a distant dream...we’ve got a pick-up for you! Let us present these three cute bartenders shaking and stirring their locally-inspired concoctions. Oh so tasty...the drinks aren’t bad either.

If you want to make your own cocktails at home, we also have some treats for you.  We’ve gathered the most popular Singaporean cocktails and recipes on how to make them yourself.

Pick your favourite below and give it a go!

Singapore Sling

Instagram: @raffleshotelsingapore

Ingredients:

35 ml gin

15 ml cherry heering

7.5 ml Dom Benedictine

7.5 ml Cointreau or triple sec

120 ml unsweetened pineapple juice, such as Trader Joe’s

15 to 18 ml fresh lime juice (use more if juicing with a reamer)

5 to 10 ml grenadine (use less if you don’t like sweet)

A forceful dash of Angostura Bitters

Ice cubes

Pineapple and maraschino cherry (optional, for garnish)

Recipe:

Pour ingredients, from the gin down to the grenadine, into a cocktail shaker. Add the bitters. Drop in enough ice cubes to fill about 2/3 of the shaker. Cover and shake hard and fast, until the container feels cold, about 30 seconds.

Fill a tall glass with ice, then strain the cocktail over the ice. If you want, garnish with the pineapple and cherry. Drink up.

Cosmopolitan

Instagram: @chervonavodka

Ingredients:

1 ½ parts Grey Goose L'orange vodka

½ part Cointreau liqueur

1 parts cranberry juice

¼ part fresh lime juice

Cubed ice

To garnish: orange zest

Recipe:

Chill your cocktail glass (the easiest way is to fill it with ice)

Put plenty of ice and all of the ingredients into your shaker or stirring glass and shake or stir vigorously for about 20 seconds

Strain the mix into a cocktail glass

Cut a piece of orange peel about the size of your thumb (be careful not to bend it). Hold the piece of orange peel between finger and thumb over the glass, and use a match to gently warm it for about 20 seconds

Then bend the peel so it releases oil onto the lighted match, igniting a flame that will settle on the surface of the drink

Bloody Mary

Instagram: @thethreehousenorthsydney

Ingredients:

2 parts Grey Goose vodka

4 parts organic tomato juice

½ part fresh lemon juice (to taste)

4 dashes of Worcestershire sauce

4 dashes of Tabasco (or hot pepper sauce)

Pinch of fleur de sel (or sea salt)

Pinch of black pepper

Some cubed ice

To garnish: Celery, ground black pepper and fresh aromatic herbs

Recipe:

Add plenty of ice and all of your ingredients to a shaker or stirring glass

If you’re using a shaker, tilt it backwards and forwards a few times to mix the ingredients without making the drink frothy. If you’re stirring, you can do so vigorously

Pour the mix into a glass. Top up with fresh ice if it’s not quite full

Add your garnishes. Any fresh herbs and a celery stick work well

Tabasco tip: if you’re making Bloody Marys for a group of people, make a jug without spice and let people add their own Tabasco. Some like it hot, others not so much!

Mojito

Instagram: @tokomelbourne

Ingredients:

2 parts Bacardi Carta Blanca

½ fresh lime

12 fresh mint leaves

2 heaped bar spoons of caster sugar

Dash of soda water

Cubed ice

Crushed ice

To Garnish: Sprig of Fresh Mint

Recipe:

Put the four lime wedges into a glass, then add the sugar and muddle (squish everything together) to release the lime juice

Put the mint leaves on one hand and clap. This bruises the leaves and releases the aroma. Rub the mint leaves around the rim of the glass and drop them in. Use a muddler, bar spoon (or even a rolling pin) to gently push the mint down into the lime juice

Half fill the glass with crushed ice and pour in the Bacardi Carta Blanca. Stir the mix together until the sugar dissolves

Top up with crushed ice, a splash of the soda water and garnish it with a sprig of mint

Margarita

Instagram: @menokoffie

Ingredients:

1 part Cazadores Tequila

½ part triple sec liqueur

½ part lime juice

1 lime wedge

Salt

Cubed ice

Recipe:

Chill your glass (the easiest way is to fill it with ice)

Put lots of ice and all of the ingredients into a shaker, then shake hard for about 30 seconds to chill the liquid really well

Run a lime wedge around the outside of the rim of your glass before rolling the rim in salt

Double strain the mix into the glass