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...
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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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...
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...

The Dirty Martini is a simple variation on the traditional dry martini – it just adds a little bit of olive brine, which clouds the cocktail (hence the name “dirty martini”). If you like a martini with an olive garnish, you’ll probably love this drink. The olive brine adds a wonderful salty flavor that stands our from the gin and vermouth. In fact, if you’re undecided about traditional dry martinis, or you’re trying to acquire the taste for them, this ...
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The Pomegranate Martini is a fairly new development in the cocktail world. The popularity of pomegranate juice both for flavor and antioxidants made this one inevitable. Because this particular mixed drink is new, there are a lot of variations on it. I’m going to present several of them, and once you see how many options you have, you can go to town coming up with your own.
Purists note: these really should be called “pomegranate cocktails”, because true martinis contain gin ...
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The Caipirinha is considered the national cocktail of Brazil, and for good reason. It’s made from their most popular distilled spirit – Cachaça – and while I’ve never had the pleasure of drinking one in Brazil, I’m told that’s the perfect climate for enjoying this wonderful cocktail.
The true Caipirinha recipe is very simple: Cachaça, limes and sugar. Cachaça is distilled from straight cane juice, but it’s more tart and sharp than its cousin, rum.
You could fancy the Caipirinha up, but ...
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The Tequila Sunrise is another orange juice based cocktail, like the Screwdriver, the Orange Blossom and the Harvey Wallbanger. The long-standing appeal of these drinks is actually the orange juice – it hydrates your body and provides Vitamin C to prevent or reduce hangover effects, but you still get your alcohol kick, too. They’re a great choice to serve guests who are just social drinkers, but they’re equally popular with more dedicated drinkers.
The Tequila Sunrise gets its name from the ...
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The Orange Blossom is a classic Prohibition-era cocktail. It’s one of those cocktails with the power to make you feel like it’s a sunny day on the beach, wherever you are and whatever the weather’s like. The flavor is orange juice with just a hint of gin. Most recipes call for gomme syrup as the sweetener, but using grenadine instead adds some pomegranate flavor.
Most variations on this recipe call for different amounts of the same ingredients, but others use Cointreau ...
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