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Raspberry Blush

Raspberry Blush cocktail with lemon and cherry garnish

The Raspberry Blush has a liquor combination that might strike you as odd: dark rum and dry vermouth. Most people aren’t familiar with good vermouth, so it has an undeserved reputation for being gross. When it’s good, it’s basically an herbed, spiced wine that lends itself to cocktails that will emphasize either the wine flavor ... Read the full article →

Venus Rum

Venus Rum cocktail

The Venus Rum cocktail has a light refreshing flavor, a nice fizzy quality, and double standard alcohol strength. It’s actually a rare combination, since most drinks featuring soda water use a lot of it, and consequently don’t have much of a kick. This particular drink reverses that ratio. This cocktail goes well with a light ... 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 →

Key Lime Martini

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A Key Lime Martini is just what it sounds like: a candy ‘tini that tastes like key lime pie. This is one seriously delicious cocktail, and it’s all about the flavor. Key lime is a transporting flavor that takes you away to the tropics the instant your tastebuds start to analyze it. Like the pie, ... Read the full article →

Cabo

Cabo cocktail with pineapple wheel and cherry

The Cabo Cocktail is one of those drinks that makes you feel as good as it tastes. Tequila is a fun spirit, and here it’s blended with pineapple juice and just a touch of lime. It’s very reminiscent of some tropical rum-based drink recipes, but the tequila makes for a nice break. The Cabo cocktail ... 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 →

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 →

El Cid

El Cid cocktail

With a name like El Cid, you might expect the cocktail to be tequila based, but you’d be wrong. The El Cid defies many expectations. It’s low on alcohol (only an ounce, two-thirds of a standard drink serving), and it mixes gin with melon liqueur, lime juice and orange juice. It tastes like a mellow ... 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 →

Queen’s Park Swizzle

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The Queen’s Park Swizzle involves swizzling, not too surprisingly. Many amateur bartenders don’t own a proper swizzle stick, let alone know how to use it. A real swizzle stick is a curved stick with little protrusions along its trunk. And you don’t stir with it: you stick it down in a drink, get the drink ... Read the full article →

Vodka Cranberry

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You might think the Vodka Cranberry cocktail is simply vodka and cranberry juice, especially since that’s how some bars serve it. Well, some bars are lazy and shameful. This drink is actually a little more complicated than its name might lead you to believe. A proper Vodka Cranberry also uses a touch of Rose’s lime ... Read the full article →

White Lizard

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Tequila is usually paired with lime and occasionally orange juice. Grapefruit juice is a less common pairing, but once you try the White Lizard, you’ll wonder why. The White Lizard cocktail pairs tequila with a lot of grapefruit juice and a little touch of Rose’s Lime to bring it all together. All the sharp notes ... Read the full article →

Emerald Rain

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The Emerald Rain blends a blue liqueur – Hpnotiq – with orange juice and lime, and the end result is a pretty green cocktail. Hpnotiq has a tropical fruit sort of flavor that’s captivating because it’s not quite like anything else. It’s been heavily marketed toward women, but I recommend against men letting that stop ... Read the full article →

Amaretto Rose

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The Amaretto Rose has nothing to do with roses. Strangely, it does have to do with lime. But most importantly, it’s got a lot to do with amaretto. A whole delicious jigger of it. Drinks involving amaretto, like the B-52, are usually among the sweetest treats in the cocktail world. This drink is a little ... Read the full article →

Jack Rose

Red cocktail with splash isolated on white

The Jack Rose is a classic cocktail popular in the the 1920s and ’30s. It was referenced in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises in 1926, but you need not associate it with bleak romance. The Jack Rose is grown-up but yummy – you don’t need to acquire a taste for it. It’s sweet and ... Read the full article →

Jade

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There are a couple of different recipes called Jade cocktails. For maximum enjoyment, you will need both of them. The first one reminds me of a Mojito. Jade #1 2 ounces white rum 1/4 ounce green creme de menthe 1/2 ounce Cointreau 1/2 ounce lime juice Shake everything up with ice and strain it into ... 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 →

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 →

Yellow Sea

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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 ... Read the full article →

Harrison

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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, ... Read the full article →

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