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4 of the Strongest Cocktails You Can Order at a Bar

VinePair

The cocktail combines equal parts vodka, rum, tequila, gin, and triple sec ironically containing almost every ingredient in the book besides tea. Even though it features a whos who of spirits, the drink surprisingly goes down easy, likely due to the help of lemon juice, cola, and simple syrup that balance out all the booze.

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Happy New Year Cocktail - Party Like Its Nineteen Ninety Now

Barina Craft

The Happy New Year Cocktail - An Eve(ning) Of Fun Toasts The Happy New Year cocktail is a drink mixed with brandy, ruby port wine, orange juice and champagne. The Daily Cocktail book actually listed the Happy New Year cocktail recipe as their drink of the day recommendation for December 31st back in 2006.* Top off with Champagne.

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The Top 10 Summer Cocktails of All Time

Drinkhacker

-RT Sangria 1 bottle of Gamay, Zinfandel, or Garnacha wine (note: it’s okay to go cheap here) 1/2 cup brandy 1/2 cup cranberry juice 1 tablespoon of sugar summer fruits of choice (start with lemons, limes, and oranges), quartered Vigorously mix the juice, sugar, and cut fruit together in a large container. Add wine and brandy and stir well.

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Elijah Craig Old Fashioned Week: Toast to a Classic Cocktail and Give Back this October

VinePair

of Elijah Craig, a quarter of an ounce of simple syrup and a few dashes of aromatic bitters. Stir until well-chilled, strain over a large cube in a double old fashioned glass, garnish with an orange swath and a brandied cherry, and you’re well on your way to cocktail greatness. Just add ice to a mixing glass along with 2 oz.

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Everything You Need To Know About The Whiskey Sour

The Whiskey Wash

In this book, Thomas states the recipes for a Brandy Sour and a Gin Sour. The Whiskey Sour surged in popularity during Prohibition, which is as ironic as the publishing of a cocktail recipe book in 1922. You can make sour cocktails with other distilled spirits such as brandy, rum, and gin. Is The Whiskey Sour Vegan?

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Yellow Parrot Cocktail - Carthusian Monks Meet The Green Fairy

Barina Craft

Yellow Parrot Drinks Elixir Of Long Life From Wormwood Perch The Yellow Parrot Cocktail is a potent drink mixed with equal parts absinthe, apricot brandy and yellow Chartreuse. Yellow Parrot Cocktail Recipe: ¾ oz absinthe ¾ oz yellow Chartreuse ¾ oz apricot brandy Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

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Clarified Cocktails Are Everywhere — It’s Getting Boring

VinePair

Then he put his ideas down on paper in his James Beard Award-winning book “ Liquid Intelligence ,” which outlines how to use everything from gravity to milk to seaweed to render a liquid clear. Hedges uses milk to separate out the solids in the base of whiskey, fresh lemon, and simple syrup and kegs that mixture.

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