Sheridans

Anyone know how to make a coffee liqueur? You know, the kind of coffees which have the cream sitting on the top and the coffee underneath (like a pint of Guinness)? No-one? OK let give you a master-class in coffee liqueur making! Firstly, a little organic chemistry! Fats and carbohydrates don't mix too well. At the first opportunity they can take they will separate (like oil and water) They are called "immiscible liquids". It is this prinicple which coffee liqueurs are based. To make the perfect coffee liqueur you need to put enough coffee in the glass (has to be a glass otherwise the effect is pointless) to fill it until there is about 2 cm from the top. ...

I was cruising through the products options the other day and I found this, so I?d like to tell you about one of my favourite drinks. Sheridens coffee liqueur. Despite a rather unusual ad campaign last year, it?s still the Cinderella of Irish coffee liqueurs. Packaging. Straight off you notice how different this is, with its two-tone lop-sided bottle. It?s actually two separate bottles stuck together. One side holds a dark, almost black liquid, while the other holds a pale, almost white liquid. Most unusual! The top is a single affair of black plastic, though on removing the cap you will see two spouts, leading from the separate bottles. The label is black ...

(Please ignore the facetious title. It all started with a film that cost theediscerning 18p to see - he asked for six readers as compensation and got them. It's a handy way for him to tell you all how much things cost, as long as you know your three times tables. Plus, "Ebony and Ivory, side by side on my drinks cabinet" wouldn't fit without being abbreviated.) Witness the scene. A sober, unwitting, upstanding chap like theediscerning is in a local supermarket (no advert, but its name is akin to a seasonal meadow), when some female comes up to him and offers him alcohol. Trouble doesn't always start with a T, if you get the ...