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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...

The Queen Bee cocktail is pure alcohol – three and a half ounces of it, to be precise. This makes it a wonderful aperitif, especially because it’s a bit on the sweet side. This cocktail blends lime vodka with coffee liqueur – a surprising combination, but it can become addictive.
This is also a nice cocktail for unwinding at the end of a rough day.
The Queen Bee
2 ounces lime vodka
1 ounce Tia Maria
1/2 ounce dry sherry
Shake the ingredients together in a ...
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The Yellow Sea is not a very well-known cocktail. It’s perfect for summer-time with its hints of banana and lime, it’s a bit on the strong side, and it’s very drinkable. Galliano is a complex liqueur, with notes of anise, lavendar and mint, but those flavors are hidden well behind vanilla. Experienced palates may pick them out and appreciate them, but less experienced ones will just pick up on the vanilla, which is fantastic alongside the banana and lime. (If ...
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The South Beach is perfect for a day on the beach. It’s a little more sophisticated than the usual fruit juice based cocktails associated with hot summer sun and white sand that burns your feet. But it’s mostly orange juice with a reasonably good helping of alcohol that’s very drinkable.
The South Beach
1 ounce Campari
1 ounce Amaretto
5 ounces orange juice
1 dash simple syrup
Build ingredients into a highball glass and garnish with an orange slice.
Even if you hate Campari, it’s still worth ...
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There are a couple of different recipes under the name Tequila Sunrise. The most common one online involves orange juice and blackberry brandy. This is not that recipe.
The Tequila Sunset I like is one of those fantastically simple cocktails that hits just the right note. It blends lemon juice and honey with tequila. You probably already know what a great pair lemon juice and honey are when you add them to tea or just hot water – teaming them with ...
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What ingredient does a cocktail called Prohibition absolutely have to feature? That’s right – gin. But this is not your typical gin cocktail.
Prohibition
1 ounce gin
1 ounce Kina Lillet
2 dashes lemon juice
1/4 ounce apricot brandy
Shake ingredients in a shaker with ice; strain into a martini glass. Serve with a twist of orange.
Kina Lillet is a wine aperitif made from Bourdeaux wines and citrus liqueurs. As you’d expect from that description, it’s a little fruity but not terribly sweet. This, along with ...
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