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Nicky Finn

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The Nicky Finn cocktail is one you could definitely refer to as sophisticated. There’s no frou-frou, no mixers you could buy out of a vending machine. But it’s an easy, smooth drink that doesn’t demand a specially trained palate. Brandy gets pleasantly overwhelmed by Cointreau and lemon juice, and that little dash of Pernod makes ... Read the full article →

September Morning

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The September Morning cocktail is one of those easy-going, highly drinkable cocktails that are just fun and tasty. The traditional recipe calls for a raw egg white; if that worries you, you can use an egg substitute product. Rum, brandy and grenadine form the basis of this flavor, with the egg white marrying the ingredients ... Read the full article →

Lychee Nut Cocktail

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If you’re fortunate enough to have access to fresh lychee, a fantastic fruit native to China, you can make a Lychee Nut Cocktai. Lychee’s getting better and better known in the western world because of its flowery/perfume scent. If you’ve ever had lychee black tea, you know what I’m talking about. This cocktail is highly ... Read the full article →

Ankle Breaker

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The Ankle Breaker cocktail is a double – it has twice the standard amount of alcohol for a cocktail. Hence the name. The rum and cherry brandy give it a mellow sweetness, which the ounce of lime juice cuts straight through. It’s a strong but tasty little drink that goes with just about any occasion. ... Read the full article →

Beautiful One

Reddish cocktail with cherries

The Beautiful One is a cranberry juice based cocktail that’ll cure you of a Cranberry Vodka obsession. This delicious drink balances the cranberry juice with equal parts Hennessy’s cognac and Grand Marnier orange liqueur. Hennessy’s has a great flavor on its own and mixes very well with sweet and tart ingredients. Grand Marnier is both ... Read the full article →

Western Sling

Orange-ish cocktail by poolside with cherry, orange and straw

The Western Sling cocktail is an easy-going fruity drink featuring three ounces pineapple juice – and most of an ounce of simple syrup, too. But it’s not as sweet as it sounds, because there’s also lemon juice and gin. It’s a variation on the Singapore Sling, and like the Singapore, the alcohol in it can ... Read the full article →

Barnum

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The Barnum cocktail is an old classic that takes you by surprise. It’s almost too sweet (unless you’ve ruined your palate on candy ‘tinis), but the gin counters that and the bitters brings all the other ingredients together. You’ll definitely need to appreciate gin to enjoy this drink, because you will be tasting it. Try ... Read the full article →

KGB cocktail

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The KGB cocktail is not named for the former Russian intelligence agency, and does not contain vodka. I just wanted to clear that up right off the bat, because that was my initial assumption the first time I heard about it. That said, it does contain one ingredient that can come from Russia – Kimmel. ... Read the full article →

Pacifist

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The Pacifist cocktail is as easy-going as the name might lead you to believe. It’s brandy and rum with a tiny bit of fruitiness – but the only sweetness is what comes from the raspberry syrup, so it’s not an overtly fruity drink. It’s really just a very friendly drink that has no hostile intentions ... Read the full article →

Devil’s Delight

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The Devil’s Delight cocktail a nicely tart with just a touch of sweetness. It blends two different orange liqueurs with lime, sweet and sour and brandy and vodka. Surprisingly, given the name, it’s a lightweight on the alcohol. You get one ounce of alcohol parked alongside about four ounces of fruit juice and sweet and ... Read the full article →

Lady Killer

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The Lady Killer cocktail recipe is definitely one you can tinker with. Changing the ingredient ratios alters the flavor for personal taste without losing the overall charm of the drink. The primary taste comes from the blend of pineapple and passion fruit juices. With four ounces of fruit juice, the Lady Killer is – literally ... Read the full article →

Panama Cocktail

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The Panama Cocktail balances white creme de cacao with brandy and cream, all in equal parts. It’s one of those fascinating cocktails where some drinkers will struggle to identify its components, because they all blend together so perfectly. The end result is hard to describe. The Panama Cocktail is equally at home in a nightclub ... Read the full article →

Zombie cocktail

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The Zombie was invented by Donn Beach, of Hollywood’s Don the Beachcomber restaurants, in the late 1930s. This vintage cocktail is called Zombie because that’s what it can turn its drinker into. It’s a high-octane cocktail full of delicious fruit juices that make you feel like you’re downing sophisticated candy. But that deliciousness hides quite ... Read the full article →

King of Noble

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The King of Noble cocktail recipe looks similar to a dry gin martini at a glance, but with some additional ingredients that make it sweeter and fruitier. It starts with the usual proportions of gin and vermouth, but to that it adds a touch of apple brandy and triple sec. The end result tastes very ... Read the full article →

Cafe D’Amour

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The Cafe D’Amour is an exciting cocktail. Not only does it involve coffee, cinnamon and cognac, but you light the freakin’ brandy on fire at one point in the preparation. Cocktails + open flames = fun times for all. This is an especially good choice for those of you who love black coffee. So many ... Read the full article →

Douglas Fairbanks

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The Douglas Fairbanks is one of those increasingly rare cocktails that uses raw egg white to give it a nice, creamy froth. The reason these drinks are becoming less and less popular is fear of eggs containing bacteria that can only be cooked away. Let’s all take a minute and thank corporate farming for that ... Read the full article →

Urban Jungle

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The Urban Jungle is, as you might expect, not a very dangerous drink. Like the real urban jungle, it may be stress-filled and cutthroat – well, not really – but it’s also pampered, privileged and enhanced with ice cream. Or something like that. Let’s just say this is not the sort of drink blue collar ... Read the full article →

Queen Victoria

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People tend to have very strong feelings about the cinnamon-herbal taste of sweet vermouth, so I don’t recommend serving the Queen Victoria cocktail to unsuspecting guests. In most cocktails where it appears, it’s a lesser ingredient. Not so in this the Queen Victoria, where it appears in an amount equal to the cognac, making it ... Read the full article →

Bayou

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A lot of cocktails use peach schnapps or Southern Comfort (which is a peachy liqueur), but peach juice as an ingredient isn’t that common. The Bayou is one exception: it uses peach juice as a main ingredient. This gives it a nice fresh fruitiness that’s different from the usual citrus or pineapple juice mixers. I ... Read the full article →

Queen Bee

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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 ... Read the full article →

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