Licence to chill: the vital role of ice in cocktails
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The use of ice in cocktail making is critical. Despite its recent bad press, Joel Harrison defends ice as the single most important element of any mixed drink

Joel Harrison is an award-winning spirits writer, Keeper of the Quaich, Musketeer of Armagnac and Gin Guild ‘rectifier’. Now 40, he has given up all hope of ever playing for Oxford United.
The use of ice in cocktail making is critical. Despite its recent bad press, Joel Harrison defends ice as the single most important element of any mixed drink
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