STRONG MEASURES

In the Lockdown Cliche Top Ten, cocktail mixology stands firmly at number two after baking bread. Pre-pandemic, I wasn’t much of a cocktail drinker, but learning how to make the perfect Picante was one of the less dreary ways to while away the hours before someone could make one for me at a bar again. Londoners have a host of cocktail delivery services to choose from: my faves are Lockdown Liquor (which comes readymade) and Stir-Up (which lets you do the making). The downside to all this at-home endeavour is that when you do eventually make it to a bar, the cocktails taste kind of… weak. Guess that’s what happens when you don’t tip half a bottle of tequila into each one. Measures? I don’t know them.