Author · Founder of ThatCocktail
Kris Barton
Founder of ThatCocktail. Kris has been making (and sometimes creating) cocktails for over 20 years, and shares the quick and easy ones here.
Kris’s story
From blue curaçao and milk to ThatCocktail
Kris Barton is a web developer by day and a mixologist by night or weekends or holidays or… basically whenever he can! (But he’s not got a problem or anything. Honest…)
Kris began making cocktails in his teens, first producing a rather unfortunate mix of blue curaçao and milk, with disastrous results. His next mix of Malibu and passion fruit Sunny Delight went over much better… almost too well (there were some very sore heads the next morning).
Since then, Kris has got better at making cocktails, but he’s got much, much better at drinking them.
In 2019 he launched ThatCocktail to share simplified, quick and easy cocktail recipes, each with a little extra detail about the drink, the ingredients and the equipment you need to make bar-quality cocktails at home.
His favourite cocktail is the Moscow Mule, with the French Martini a close second.
Latest recipes from Kris
The newest cocktails Kris has added to ThatCocktail.
Americano
Campari, sweet red vermouth, soda water
Rusty Nail
Scotch whisky, Drambuie
Gin Fizz
Gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, soda water
Bee’s Knees
Dry gin, lemon juice, orange juice, honey
Aviation
Gin, maraschino liqueur (Luxardo), lemon juice, crème de violette
Caipirinha
Cachaça, sugar, lime
Dry Martini
Dry gin, dry vermouth
Cranberry Aperol Spritz
Aperol, cranberry juice, prosecco, soda water