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Poker Face

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Ever found yourself in the mood for pineapple juice, but not a tropical cocktail? The Poker Face cocktail uses pineapple juice as a base, but that’s as tropical as it gets. The result is a really fun juice drink without any lime or coconut. The Poker Face cocktail is really simple to make – you ... Read the full article →

Old Flame

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The Old Flame cocktail has a nostalgic feel, as you might expect from the name. Dale DeGroff invented it almost by accident: he’d chosen Negronis to serve with a dinner, and the people he served it to didn’t like the bitters-based flavor. He asked the bartender to add in orange juice and Cointreau, and the ... Read the full article →

Embassy Cocktail

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The Embassy Cocktail is an old classic that dates back to the 1930s and the Embassy Club in Hollywood. Like 1930s Hollywood, it has a certain sophisticated glamor. The taste strikes a great balance between sweet, bitter and sour. It’s one of those fairly strong drinks that manages to go down very smoothly. This is ... Read the full article →

Safari Juice

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The Safari Juice cocktail is an extravaganza of fruity flavors – orange, melon and a dash of pomegranate. It’s highly drinkable, has enough orange juice to pass for a breakfast drink (but on the strong side), and is really refreshing. This cocktail is ideal for hot days – the kind of days where it’s hard ... Read the full article →

Velvet Hammer

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The next time you’re looking to knock yourself out but wishing it could be painless, use a Velvet Hammer. This drink packs more alcohol than you think, given its smooth, sweet, creamy taste. The Velvet Hammer looks a lot like a White Russian, and they do both use a coffee liqueur and creamer. But the ... Read the full article →

Apple Cart

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Calvados is a well-loved spirit for good reason. It’s an apple brandy, but that just means it has notes of apple and pear – it’s not actually fruity. But it blends wonderfully with citrus, so the Apple Cart cocktail blends calvados with a little lemon juice and the orange flavor of Cointreau. The citrus adds ... Read the full article →

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 →

El Caribe (Caribbean Martini)

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The El Caribe cocktail is known as the Caribbean Martini. It bears very little resemblance to a traditional martini, but it certainly has a Caribbean flair. It naturally uses rum as its main spirit – specifically a lemon flavored rum. Like a martini, it’s pure alcohol, so the closest it comes to “mixers” is the ... 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 →

Gatorade

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There’s more than one recipe for a Gatorade Cocktail out there. Some are so named because they involve energy drinks, and therefore give you the effect of the drink. This one is so named for tasting a little like it. It will for sure not give you energy like a Gatorade. If you’re a lightweight, ... Read the full article →

Poinsettia

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The Poinsettia is a champagne cocktail, which makes it ideal for holiday parties. It’s light on the alcohol, easy to drink (even for very occasional drinkers) and festive. It’s also a wonderful brunch drink, and the cranberry gives it a nice touch of autumn flavors for fall and winter. Poinsettia Champagne 1/2 ounce Cointreau 3 ... Read the full article →

Geisha Delight

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The Geisha Delight cocktail originated in Japan. It’s fruity and fairly sweet, and the flavors are hard to separate and identify, which is part of its charm. This is a great cocktail in most any setting, but there’s something about it that makes it perfect for sipping at home. It’s as if it’s meant to ... Read the full article →

Happy Face

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Well, this is not a drink for mature adults. This is a drink for people who missed their first childhood, have led a life of toil, trouble and responsibility, and have at some point decided the hell with this, they’re going to have their first childhood with a vengeance. And an I.D. which proclaims them ... Read the full article →

Yellow Peril

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How would you like to get extremely drunk? The Yellow Peril cocktail can help you. Named after British traffic wardens, this drink is alcohol through and through. Hmm, wait – does this mean British traffic wardens drunk all the time? Or do they go around knocking people out cold like the LAPD? Or maybe the ... Read the full article →

The Beachcomber

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The Beachcomber cocktail is a fun drink that’s not frou-frou. It’s got the rum and lime you’d expect from any drink with a name that makes you think of strolling along tropical beaches. This cocktail is great for summertime, but keep in mind it’s stronger than it tastes. It’s got a higher percentage of alcohol ... Read the full article →

Rum Sidecar

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The Rum Sidecar, as you can probably guess, is basically a traditional Sidecar in which rum replaces cognac. But the alcohol ratios are a little different in the Rum Sidecar, and this one doesn’t call for a sugar-rimmed glass because the natural sweetness of the rum is enough. This cocktail is of average strength, with ... Read the full article →

Scotch Cobbler

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The Scotch Cobbler is a fun drink, particularly for those who aren’t crazy about scotch neat or on the rocks, but like it in cocktails. As with most Scotch cocktail recipes, you want a decent quality but not high-quality scotch for this drink. Not only would using higher quality be a waste of a liquor ... Read the full article →

Balm

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The Balm is a fairly sophisticated cocktail. Its use of bitters may present a challenge to novice taste buds, but there’s an easy solution: the bitters can be left out for guests who don’t enjoy that flavor. Because the biggest part of a Balm is dry sherry, it’s not terribly sweet even without the bitters. ... Read the full article →

Blue Monday

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Because it’s Monday, and even good Mondays can be kind of blue, the timing is perfect to feature the Blue Monday cocktail. This is one of those really simple cocktail recipes that even beginners can put together perfectly – that’s important when it’s Monday and/or you’re blue! The last thing you want is a pick ... Read the full article →

Cosmopolitan

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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 ... Read the full article →

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