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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Like most cocktail recipes with the word "Hawaiian" in them, the Hawaiian Brandy is fruity and sweet. Its main ingredient is Calvados, an apple brandy from Lower Normandy. Next up is pineapple juice, followed by nicely blended touches of cherry-almond and lemon. It sounds like an impossible smorgasbord of fruit flavors that may not play ...
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The Whiskey Bomb adds a touch of sweet and bitter to Scotch. As with all cocktails based on Scotch, I recommend using a cheap or at least inexpensive brand (why waste Scotch that tastes great all by itself in a blended cocktail?). The flavors of the other ingredients will rescue the lesser quality Scotch from ...
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The Percolator is a cold coffee-based cocktail that goes down smooth while it wakes you up. It's great as a breakfast or brunch cocktail. Just don't serve it at a party where you're hoping everyone will leave in a timely manner - or if you do, make the coffee decaf. The caffeine/alcohol combo can keep ...
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Tequila cocktails are among my favorites. Maybe it's because tequila gives me such an easy-going good feeling. Maybe it's the way tequila blends with so many flavors so smoothly. The Shady Lady is a tequila cocktail with a difference: grapefruit juice. So many tequila cocktails involve lime, lemon or orange, but grapefruit juice is more unusual. ...
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The Phoebe Snow is named after a fictional character from a railroad advertising campaign. Her dress remained white as snow because her train ran on anthracite instead of coal. This cocktail recipe dates back to at least 1941, but don't expect your average bartender in a chain restaurant to have heard of it. Phoebe Snow ...
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The Harrison is one of the lesser-known cocktails we've ever talked about here, probably because it uses raw egg white. Bars are understandably wary of putting raw egg ingredients into cocktails anymore. But many home bartenders feel raw egg isn't as unsafe as its publicity would have you believe. If you're afraid of raw eggs, ...
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