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  • Top 10 Thanksgiving cocktail recipes: The main rule of thumb for selecting Thanksgiving cocktails should be: does it make you want to curl up by a fire and sip? Then it’s a potential Thanksgiving cocktail. If you want to get even more of a Thanksgiving or autumn feel, think about fall harvest and all the traditional foods of Thanksgiving. Look to flavors like apple, pumpkin, cranberry, ginger and other spices. Consider warm drinks with or without coffee, and drinks featuring heavy cream or eggs. There are a ... READ MORE
  • 49 Margarita Recipes: In a couple of days, it’ll officially be summer. One of the great summertime mixed drinks is the margarita, which comes in so many varieties you could have a substantially different one every day for well over a month. To prove it, I’ve collected links to 49 different margarita recipes. (We could get into a debate about how many of these are “true” margaritas, but do we really care?) I’ll start with a few traditional recipes, then move onto the ... READ MORE
  • How to pour a layered cocktail: Layered cocktails taste good, look amazing and impress anyone who sees you successfully pouring them. They’re typically associated with sweet liqueurs, but plenty of layered cocktail recipes use rum, whiskey, vodka and other hard liquors to cut the sweetness and add some kick. Whether your style is “cin-cin” or “chug chug,” there’s a layered cocktail out there for you. Pouring these drinks is easier than you might think: you just need to know the specific gravity of each liquor or liqueur ... READ MORE
  • Vodka Gummi Bears: When you soak gummi bears in vodka, they absorb the alcohol and turn into a yummy fruity treat with a kick. The how-to part of this is pretty simple, so I decided to make things a little more interesting. In addition to regular vodka gummi bears, I made vodka sugar-free gummi bears, vodka gummi worms (purely to see if they turned out any cooler looking than the bears) and vodka Red Fish (these were disgusting, but in the interest of ... READ MORE
  • How to make green beer, leprechaun style: When I decided to write an article on how to make the perfect green beer, I decided no fooling around: I captured a leprechaun and asked it for the recipe. At first, of course, it refused to tell me. It even offered to take me to its pot of gold instead, but I knew that was a trick. Then it started feeding me a spiel about squeezing shamrock juice into the beer, but I didn’t buy that, either. I resorted to ... READ MORE
  • Mixology Tip: Customizing Cocktails for Guests: When you’re serving cocktails to guests, there’s a very easy way to impress them by tweaking the drink so it’s just how they like it: Use just a little less of each ingredient than the recipe calls for, or pour in your pre-mixed cocktails but leave a little room at the top. Ask if they prefer the drink sweet or dry or sour – whatever are the flavor options for that particular cocktail. Add a little bit of the correct ingredient(s) to get ... READ MORE
  • Skittles Vodka Tutorial: Infusing vodka with Skittles is a very popular trend right now. There are a couple of different ways to do it. My way involves separating all the Skittles into their separate flavors and making five different bottles of Skittles vodka. For this project, you’ll need: One 1.75 liter bottle of vodka (I used Stoli – you don’t need the most expensive vodka, but do avoid the cheap ones) Five 8.5 ounce flasks or bottles (I got mine from The Container Store. Also check ... READ MORE
  • Entertainment Tip: Mixing Multiple Drinks: When you’re entertaining guests, you can save yourself time by pre-mixing a shakerful of cocktails. This is simple to do – just follow the tips below. Premixing a pitcher of cocktails You can pre-mix a pitcher of cocktails up to a week before your party, as long as you don’t add ice until you’re ready to serve: Know how many drinks you expect to serve while entertaining. If your guests are friends and you have an idea how much they drink, that’s simple. ... READ MORE