Introducing SLTN’s Spirit of the Sixties Cocktail Competition finalists:

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on 

by Mari Chierchia, Daddy Marmalades

“In the Sixties in Scotland, there were very few cocktail parties happening. 

There was very high unemployment, the traditional industrial careers were in danger. 

People were angry at the swinging sixties happening in Paris and London, feeling left behind.

In late 1967 a woman named Winnie shifted the mood of the country. Winnie Ewing won the Hamilton by-election for the SNP for the first time in almost 20 years, sending a nationalist to Westminster to represent the Scottish people.

I wanted to represent the Scottish people in my cocktail with my twist on a sixties favourite, the Sidecar. The citric element is an acid-adjusted McEwan’s Export reduction infused with ginger – because let’s face it, the people in the steelworks and shipyards weren’t drinking sidecars and Martinis, it was McEwan’s Export or Heavy. 

I used Rémy Martin 1738 Accord Royal alongside the McEwan’s Export to mirror the divide between the cities thriving in the sixties and Scotland at the time.”

Stop the World, Scotland wants to get on

• 45ml Rémy Martin 1738 Accord Royal

• 15ml Acid adjusted McEwan’s Export Beer and ginger reduction

• 30ml Homemade Earthy Limoncello

• Lemongrass sugar rim