As the demand for premium soft drinks grows, so, it seems, does an interest in proper food and soft drink flavour matching.

Red Bull have invited artists to customise coolers, which are to be placed in a selection of East London bars from this weekend

The new look Chambord has given up its crown

Spring is sprung – time to start planting, sipping cider brandy and befriending ladybirds, say Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown in Part II of their seasonal series

Gin has always attracted the lion’s share of the attention when it comes to making a G&T. Time to put its ‘straight man’ partner to the test, says Dan Priseman, as he lines up a range of tonics, calls in some top barmen and makes with the bottle-opener...

This year will see Cellar Trends put some serious welly behind its new range of cocktail mixes, purées and syrups, Finest Call.

At this time of year, you may have a fair few customers struggling to keep on the wagon (as illustrated by a Fentiman of yore, right) and Fentimans has come up with a choice of soft cocktails to add interest, not to mention income, to such an occasion. These include the Honeymoon (Fentimans Dandelion and Burdock…

We previewed it early last year after a tip-off from the US, and now Q Tonic is finally getting its official UK launch. Its key selling point is its all-natural ingredients which include quinine from chinchona bark that’s hand-picked in the Peruvian Andes, and a sweetness that solely comes from organic agave nectar…

There is more choice in mixers than ever before – but is it actually worth forking out the extra on top-end alternatives? Alice Lascelles and a panel of intrepid bartenders spent an afternoon (almost entirely) on the wagon in search of an answer…

Spending all that time and effort on the perfect cocktail ingredients, then using half-melted, chlorine-infused ice is as ridiculous as putting a nodding dog in a Porsche. Time to tune in, turn on and chill out, says Alice Lascelles

The complete-o Mojito: the last word in customised Mojitos

The film Cocktail is 20 years young this year, and with so many kids now wearing clothes straight out of the 80s, it seemed the perfect time for Tom Sandham to re-visit the movie that has inspired a generation of bartenders

This summer, the great and good of the bar world descended on New Orleans for the world’s largest libatory festival: Tales of the Cocktail. Alice Lascelles packed a spare liver and joined the throng...

What makes Tony Conigliaro’s cocktails tick? Alice Lascelles took a group of inquisitive bartenders, armed with ideas, to his new cocktail lab to find out...

Tequila dealer: The ultimate tequila cocktails