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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Deauville Cocktail dates back to 1930 and originated in New Orleans. It’s very simple to make, and works well for a pitcher of pre-mixed drinks at a party. It’s a great drink year round, for any occasion – fruity but not too sweet, enjoyable for experienced and occasional drinkers alike. One tip: the better the brandy, the better the drink, so use the best you can afford.
Deauville Cocktail
3/4 ounce brandy
3/4 ounce applejack or calvados
3/4 ounce triple sec
3/4 ounce fresh ...
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Posted in Cocktails Tags: Tags: Applejack, Brandy, Lemon
The Cosmopolitan is considered by most sources to have been created by Florida bartender Cheryl Cook in 1986, making it one of the newer cocktails to be featured here. Aside from the call for Absolut Citron, it feels like a classic recipe – it’s dry and fruity rather than sweet and fruity, and even though it’s closer to a margarita, most people think of it as a type of martini.
It’s generally thought of as a “girly” drink, but aside from ...
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Posted in Cocktails Tags: Tags: Cointreau, Cranberry, Lime, Vodka
The Pink Lady was popular in the 1950s. It’s pink and fluffy with egg froth on the top, so on first sight you might expect it to be cloyingly sweet, but it’s actually drier than most modern cocktails. The classic recipe just uses gin, grenadine, cream and an egg white, but one of the variations is actually more tasty, so that’s what I’m going to outline here.
Pink Lady
1 jigger of gin
1/2 ounce applejack
1/2 ounce lemon juice, preferably fresh
1 egg white
1/5 ...
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Posted in Cocktails Tags: Tags: Applejack, Gin, Grenadine, Lemon
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 ...
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The classic recipe for the White Lady, or Delilah, is basically a Sidecar with gin in place of brandy. But variations on it add other ingredients, which you can experiment with to find out exactly what you prefer. The overall flavor is citrus with herbal notes from the gin – light, refreshing, and neither dry nor sweet. If you like martinis, this drink makes for a great change every now and then.
Despite the genteel sounding name, this drink is stronger ...
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Posted in Cocktails Tags: Tags: Cointreau, Gin, Lemon
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