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Here are a few mixed drink favorites.  Contributions are welcomed.  If you have an original creation your name will be included as long as you provide samples.  Bottoms up!

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Bloody Mary  

Several pinches celery salt or to taste

1/2 teaspoon chopped dill (fresh or dried)

1/4 teaspoon worcestershire sauce

 

Pinch white pepper

 

Several dashes tabasco sauce

 

2 ounces vodka

 

4-6 ounces tomato juice

 

1 teaspoon lemon juice

 

Mixing instructions
In a shaker or blender, mix all ingredients with ice. Strain mix into a chilled collins glass. Add additional ice cubes if necessary.

Daiquiri, Strawberry

 

1 scoop crushed ice

1 3/4 ounces light rum

1 to 2 teaspoons sugar

 

Juice of 1/4 lime

 

5 large strawberries

 

Mixing instructions
Mix all ingredients thoroughly in a blender. Pour blend into a large cocktail glass or champagne flute. Garnish with an extra strawberry.

Harvey Wallbanger

 

1/2 ounce Galliano

1 1/2 ounces vodka

4 ounces orange juice

 

Mixing instructions
Pour vodka and orange juice into a chilled collins glass with several ice cubes. Stir well. Top off the glass with a Galliano float.

Highball

 

Club soda

2 oz. Bourbon

Mixing instructions
Into a highball glass pour, Bourbon, ginger ale or club soda, and ice cubes. Add twist of lemon and stir.

Hot Spiced Cider

 

SERVES 4

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup granulated sugar

 

1 quart apple cider

 

8 whole allspice (pimento berries)

 

12 whole cloves

 

1 cinnamon stick, broken up

 

Mixing instructions
Combine all of the ingredients, except rum, in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cool and let stand for at least 4 hours, stirring occasionally. Before serving, strain and reheat, stirring in the rum at the last moment. Serve in large mugs.

Irish Coffee

1 tsp. sugar

4 oz. fresh-brewed coffee

1 oz. Irish whiskey

Whipped cream

Mixing instructions
Add sugar and coffee to glass while stirring. Add whiskey and top with whipped cream.

Manhattan 

 

2 oz. American whiskey

1/2 oz. sweet vermouth

1 dash of bitters

 

Mixing instructions
Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Margarita

 

Lime slice

1 ounce lime juice

1 1/2 ounces tequila

 

Coarse salt

 

1 ounce triple sec

 

Mixing instructions
Moisten the rim of a cocktail glass with a lime rind. Press the rim into salt. In a shaker, combine the first three ingredients with ice. Mix and strain into the glass. Garnish with a lime slice.

Frozen Margarita

 

Crushed ice

Lime slice

1/2 ounce triple sec

 

1 1/2 ounces tequila

 

1 ounce lemon or lime juice

 

Salt or sugar and salt mixture

 

Mixing instructions
Use 1 1/2 to 2 scoops of crushed ice for each drink. Add ice, tequila, triple sec, and juice to blender. Blend until slushy, but not too watery. Moisten the rim of a large chilled cocktail glass or wine goblet with a lime slice. Coat the rim with sugar or sugar and salt mixture. Pour the contents into the prepared glass and garnish with the lime slice.

Long Island Iced Tea #1Ingredients:

1/2 oz Vodka, 1/2 oz Tequila, 1/2 oz Light rum, 1/2 oz Gin, 1 dash Coca-Cola, Twist of Lemon (or lime)

Mixing instructions:  Mix all contents in a highball glass and stir gently. Add dash of Coca-Cola for the coloring and garnish with lemon or lime twist.

Martini

 

Olive or lemon twist

1/2 teaspoon dry vermouth or to taste

2 ounces gin (may substitute vodka)

 
Mixing instructions
Stir gin and vermouth in a mixing glass with plenty of ice. Strain mix into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an olive or a lemon twist.

Old-Fashioned (1)

 

1 1/2 ounces bourbon

1 teaspoon sugar

Splash of soda

 

2 Maraschino cherries

 

5 dashes bitters

 

2 slices orange

 

Mixing instructions
In a rocks glass, place one cherry, 1/2 slice of orange, bitters, and one teaspoon of sugar. Muddle until the mixture is well ground. Add the Bourbon and a splash of soda while still mixing. Fill the glass with ice. Garnish with a cherry and a slice of orange.

Pina Colada

 

1 ounce cream of coconut (Coco Lopez)

1 1/2 ounces light rum

2 ounces pineapple juice

 

1 cup ice

 

Mixing instructions
Combine and mix all ingredients in blender until smooth. Pour blend into a chilled cocktail glass.

Rum Runner

 

Maraschino cherry

1 ounce dark rum

Juice of 1/2 lime

 

1/4 ounce sugar syrup

 

A few splashes of bitters

 

1 ounce light rum

 

2 3/4 ounces pineapple juice

 

1 thin wedge of lime, seeded

 

Mixing instructions
Mix ingredients in a shaker. Pour mix into a highball glass with ice. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and a lime.

Sea Breeze (1)

 

1 scoop crushed ice

3 ounces grapefruit juice

3 ounces cranberry juice

 

2 ounces vodka

 

Mixing instructions
Mix together all ingredients in a shaker. Pour mix into a chilled highball glass.

Tequila Sunrise (1)

 

1 scoop crushed ice

3 ounces orange juice

1/4 ounce grenadine

 

2 ounces tequila

 

Mixing instructions
Fill a tall collins glass with crushed ice. Add the tequila and grenadine. Slowly fill the glass with orange juice and stir gently.

Tropical Breeze

 

1 ounce cream of coconut (Coco Lopez)

1/2 ounce creme de banana

1 cup ice

 

2 ounces orange juice

 

1/2 slice pineapple

 

1 ounce rum

 

Mixing instructions
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour blend into a chilled parfait glass.

Whiskey Sour

 

1/2 tsp. powdered sugar

2 oz. blended whiskey

Juice of 1/2 lemon

 

Mixing instructions
Shake with ice and strain into a sour glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Woo Woo

 

Splash cranberry juice

1/2 ounce peach schnapps

1 1/4 ounces vodka

 

Mixing instructions
Pour ingredients over ice into a large mixing glass. Stir and strain into a chilled martini glass.

Zombie

 

1 ounce dark rum

1 ounce orange juice

1 scoop crushed ice

 

1 teaspoon Pernod

 

1/2 ounce 151-proof rum

 

Mint sprig

 

1/4 ounce grenadine

 

1 ounce pineapple juice

 

1 ounce lemon juice

 

1 ounce curacao

 

1/2 ounce orgeat or sugar syrup to taste

 

1 strip fresh pineapple

 

1/2 ounce papaya or guava juice (optional)

 

2 ounces light rum

 

Mixing instructions
Mix all ingredients, except mint and pineapple strip, in a blender. Pour blend into a tall, chilled collins or hurricane glass. Garnish with a mint sprig and a pineapple strip.

 

 
 

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