Heering Cocktails
Heering is a sweet, full-bodied liqueur, produced without any artificial ingredients, colours or flavours, from a top secret Heering family recipe. The Cherry Heering is dark red in colour, with a hint of brown hue and a rich powerful nose of fresh cherries and warm spice. Its extravagant quality and deliciously smooth full flavour makes it a key ingredient for many cocktails, particularly the infamous Blood and Sand and well known Singapore Sling. The Coffee Heering is a recent addition to the line, introduced in 2008. See below for more details about Heering cocktails and how to make them for yourself.
Blood and Sand for its name from the 1922 film starring Rudolf Valentino as a bullfighter. The earliest reference to the drink is in the Savoy Cocktail Book, first published in 1930. If also appears in "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's World Drinks and How to Mix Them, from 1934. These early guides - as well as recent ones, such as Gary Regan's The Joy of Mixology - call for making the drink with equal parts scotch, fresh orange juice, cherry brandy, and sweet vermouth.
...How to make:
25ml of blended Scotch
25ml Cherry Heering
25ml of sweet vermouth
25ml of fresh orange juice
In the Press:
"one of Denmark's biggest contributions to the bar. Today's barkeeps are exhuming classic Heering drinks, such as the 1920s-era Blood and Sand..."
Time Out New York
"The taste convinced me never to judge a drink again without tasting it. A sound Principle."
The Wall Street Journal
By Mike Aikman from Bramble, Edinburgh
The Campbeltown cocktail may not be hot, but is still a winter warmer. The key spirit here is Scotch Whisky, notoriously difficult to mix, something that prompted Aikman to take up the challenge. The result? A dangerously heady concoction of cherry liqueur, green chartreuse and Scotch Whisky from the Campbeltown region.
...How to make:
45ml Springbank 10 Year Old Whisky
20ml Cherry Heering
10ml Green Chartreuse
Add all ingredients into mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir all ingredients for approximately one minute.
Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon twist.
Heering introduced their Coffee Liqueur in 2008 as an extension to their line. Heering Coffee Liqueur is a delicious, rare blend of Caribbean rum, dark coffee and rich cocoa, perfect for both warm and cold cocktails
...How to make:
40 ml Heering Coffee Liqueur20ml condensed milk
1 double espresso
Add ingredients in a shaker.
Shake and pour into a chocolate garnished cocktail glass.
The Singapore Sling was created at Raffles Hotel at the turn-of-the-century by Hainanese-Chinese bartender Mr Ngiam Tong Boon. Till today, in the Hotel'd museum, vistors may view the safe in which Mr Ngiam locked away his precious recipe books, as well as the Sling recipe hastily jotted down on a bar-chit in 1936 by a visitor to the Hotel who asked the waiter for it. My Ngiam Tong Boon concocted the very first cocktail to achieve global fame by mixing the ingredients and serving as shaken, not stirred, on ice in a cocktail glass.
...How to make:
30ml Gin
15 ml Cherry Heering
120 ml Pineapple Juice
15 ml Lime Juice
7.5 ml Cointreau
7.5 ml Dom Benedictine
10 ml Grenadine
A Dash of Angostura Bitters
Garnish with a slice of Pineapple and Cherry
...How to make:
20 ml Heering Coffee Liqueur
20 ml Vodka
80 ml milk
Add ingredients in a shaker.
Shake and pour into a rock glass.
The Copenhagen cocktail was created autumn 2009, the official taste of the Danish capital by the official Danish convention, event and visitors bureau, Wonderful Copenhagen.
...How to make:
45ml Van Wees Very Old Genever
25ml Cherry Heering
25ml Simple Syrup
25ml Lime Juice
Dash of Angostura Bitters
