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Patrón XO Cafe’s Unlikely Viral Life After Death

VinePair

In the fall of 2021, when Patrón decided to discontinue XO Cafe, the tequila-based coffee liqueur the brand first launched in 1992, it seemed like a smart idea. percent, while coffee liqueur sales were flatlining. The Bacardi-owned brand surely figured: Why waste such a popular spirit in an unpopular liqueur?

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Aperol Fizz

Medium of Mixology

A few months back I found myself picking up a bottle of the Italian Liqueur Aperol. Knowing that it’s basically a Manhattan ruined by Campari, you’ll never see me reviewing that on this blog. This is both a liqueur drink and a gin drink depending on how you decide to categorize it. Stir lightly to combine.

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Most Popular Mixed Drinks

Marketview Liquor Blog

To make these drinks easily, ensure your home bar is well-equipped with essentials like cocktail shakers, muddlers, jiggers, drink strainers and mixers such as simple syrup, club soda and fruit juices. You can create simple syrup by dissolving 1 cup of sugar in 1 cup of water.

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Most Popular Mixed Drinks

Marketview Liquor Blog

To make these drinks easily, ensure your home bar is well-equipped with essentials like cocktail shakers, muddlers, jiggers, drink strainers and mixers such as simple syrup, club soda and fruit juices. You can create simple syrup by dissolving 1 cup of sugar in 1 cup of water.

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Sherry Cocktails – Lower Your ABV

The Whisky Exchange

Ingredients 50ml Valdespino Fino Inocente 10ml Lemon juice 10ml Lime Juice 20ml 1:1 simple syrup Soda Water 6 Mint leaves Method Pour the sherry, citrus juice, sugar and mint leaves into a highball glass. A dash of orange liqueur or Maraschino will add an extra dimension, as will a few berries or some diced pineapple in the shaker.

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Horchata Cocktail

The Drink Blog

Time for one of our favorite tricks: infused simple syrup. To make the cinnamon infused simple syrup, you just take one part of sugar to one part of water, bring to a boil with a cinnamon stick or three, then let hang out until cool. Oh, and as a background play, let’s bring in some almond liqueur as well.

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Hazelnut Chocolate Matcha Cocktail

The Drink Blog

Though, it might be on the sweeter side, so adjust the vanilla simple syrup to your taste. Finally, the vanilla simple syrup that I call for, that’s just regular ol’ simple syrup (a 1:1 mix of sugar to water) that I steeped a vanilla bean pod into for that amazing vanilla flavor. Let that cool.