Wanna try something slightly different? Feeling a bit blue? Well, this drink is for you.
It is a spin on the traditional Long Island Iced Tea (LIT) using blue curacao (cur-a-sow). Kind of like the azul ocean on a bright sunny day in Jamaica or some other Carribean locale, this drink offers fun in a glass.
Ingredients
You will need:
Vodka
Gin
Blue Curacao
Triple Sec
Rum
Sour Mix
The Drink Recipe
Now, with a traditional LIT, you want to splash coke in there to make it look dark - like tea (hence the name). With this drink, you don't want to darken it, you want to give it a nice, blue hue - so that is why the coke is eliminated from the recipe. (You could, however, use it if you wish...but I wouldn't!)
Get a tumbler glass, build with ice.
Pour in 1/2 oz of each spirit - vodka, gin, triple sec, blue curacao and rum. Then pour in 2 oz of sour mix. Pour into tin and then back into tumbler glass. Garnish with a lemon and sip with care!
Best served poolside or on the beach. If you want to spruce it up even more, garnish with a flag - an orange wedge with cherries (stuck with a toothpick).
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Long Island Iced Tea
Another classical drink, good for the summer backyard BBQ, or just for a night on the town.
Ingredients
You need:
Vodka
Gin
Triple Sec
Rum
Sour Mix
Coke
Lemon
Drink Recipe
Get a tumbler glass, build with ice.
Pour in 1/2 of vodka, gin, triple sec, and rum. Pour in 2 oz of sour mix, splash with coke. Then, if you have a tin handy, pour into tin and back into glass. Garnish with a lemon, and enjoy.
Ingredients
You need:
Vodka
Gin
Triple Sec
Rum
Sour Mix
Coke
Lemon
Drink Recipe
Get a tumbler glass, build with ice.
Pour in 1/2 of vodka, gin, triple sec, and rum. Pour in 2 oz of sour mix, splash with coke. Then, if you have a tin handy, pour into tin and back into glass. Garnish with a lemon, and enjoy.
A Mandarin Blush
Like Mandarin oranges?
Like Vodka?
Like to blush?
Well, this drink is for you. It is a very simple drink, and handy if you have only a few items laying around the house - albeit some special items.
Ingredients
Make sure you have handy:
Sprite
Cranberry Juice
Absolut Mandarin
The Drink Recipe
Take a tumbler glass, build with ice. Pour in 1 1/4 oz of Absolut Mandarin and then pour in 5 oz of Cranberry Juice and fill the rest with Sprite. (If you want to get real fancy, and impress others, pour the Cran and Sprite at the same time til the glass is full).
Garnish with a lime.
Enjoy! Makes for a good afternoon drink out on the beach, perhaps. Summer time.
Like Vodka?
Like to blush?
Well, this drink is for you. It is a very simple drink, and handy if you have only a few items laying around the house - albeit some special items.
Ingredients
Make sure you have handy:
Sprite
Cranberry Juice
Absolut Mandarin
The Drink Recipe
Take a tumbler glass, build with ice. Pour in 1 1/4 oz of Absolut Mandarin and then pour in 5 oz of Cranberry Juice and fill the rest with Sprite. (If you want to get real fancy, and impress others, pour the Cran and Sprite at the same time til the glass is full).
Garnish with a lime.
Enjoy! Makes for a good afternoon drink out on the beach, perhaps. Summer time.
Classic Margarita
There are few drinks that are as popular as the margarita - the old standby. Well, let's take a look at how to make one. Master this, and be anyone's cabana boy.
This one is on the rocks...
You will need a mug, some sour mix, kosher salt, and the usual suspects - Jose Cuervo Gold, Triple Sec (or Cointreau, if you want to spice it up a bit), and some lime.
Salty Spirits
Take you mug (8oz, 10oz...) and salt the rim. You can get one of those fancy margarita salter things which usually look like a sombrero - or you can try something different. Get a sponge (clean, of course!), put it on a plate, drown it in sour mix, then touch the rim of your mug to it (to get some of that sour mix to stick to it), then on another plate with salt, touch the rim to the salt and presto! You have a slated rim.
The Drink Recipe
Now, fill the mug with ice.
In a tin, pour:
1.25 oz of Cuervo Gold
.75 oz of Triple Sec (or Cointreau)
3.0 oz of Sour Mix
Squeeze lime (usually a half of lime) and toss into the tin.
Shake it (or tin spin, depends on if you have a top for your tin or if you can use a Boston Shaker...). Pour into mug.
Enjoy!
Serve with a 1/4 slice of lime and put the salt to good use.
This one is on the rocks...
You will need a mug, some sour mix, kosher salt, and the usual suspects - Jose Cuervo Gold, Triple Sec (or Cointreau, if you want to spice it up a bit), and some lime.
Salty Spirits
Take you mug (8oz, 10oz...) and salt the rim. You can get one of those fancy margarita salter things which usually look like a sombrero - or you can try something different. Get a sponge (clean, of course!), put it on a plate, drown it in sour mix, then touch the rim of your mug to it (to get some of that sour mix to stick to it), then on another plate with salt, touch the rim to the salt and presto! You have a slated rim.
The Drink Recipe
Now, fill the mug with ice.
In a tin, pour:
1.25 oz of Cuervo Gold
.75 oz of Triple Sec (or Cointreau)
3.0 oz of Sour Mix
Squeeze lime (usually a half of lime) and toss into the tin.
Shake it (or tin spin, depends on if you have a top for your tin or if you can use a Boston Shaker...). Pour into mug.
Enjoy!
Serve with a 1/4 slice of lime and put the salt to good use.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Hawaiian Punch
Feelin' punchy?
This will do the trick. It is called a Hawaiian Punch because, well, it takes like a Hawaiian Punch.
Ingredients
You need:
The Drink Recipe
Get a tumbler glass, build with ice.
Then, pour in
You build the drink in the glass. This one is great if you want something sweet and "citrusy". Good in bulk as punch, too...
If you want it stronger, try .5 oz of Grand Marnier but don't add OJ (you will have too much orange flavor).
As usual, with sour mix, find a brand that you like and can stand on its own. I jokingly tell people to get lemon-lime Gatorade if they can't find anything - half joking, but it does work. Seriously.
Enjoy!
This will do the trick. It is called a Hawaiian Punch because, well, it takes like a Hawaiian Punch.
Ingredients
You need:
- Three Olives Cherry Vodka
- Orange Juice
- Pineapple Juice
- Sour Mix
- Grenadine
The Drink Recipe
Get a tumbler glass, build with ice.
Then, pour in
- 1.25 oz of Three Olives Cherry Vodka
- 1.0 oz of orange juice
- 1.0 oz of pineapple juice
- fill with sour mix (to give it a more tart flavor)
- splash with grenadine
You build the drink in the glass. This one is great if you want something sweet and "citrusy". Good in bulk as punch, too...
If you want it stronger, try .5 oz of Grand Marnier but don't add OJ (you will have too much orange flavor).
As usual, with sour mix, find a brand that you like and can stand on its own. I jokingly tell people to get lemon-lime Gatorade if they can't find anything - half joking, but it does work. Seriously.
Enjoy!
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Bong Water
Ok, this could be a shot, but it could also be a drink served in a tall glass. Probably better as a drink, but for a shot just half the portions:
Should come out greenish in color, and very potent. Like a Long Island Iced Tea, but for the younger crowd.
- .5 oz of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
- .5 oz of peach schapps
- .5 oz of Southern Comfort
- .5 oz of Disarronno
- .5 oz of blue curacao
- .5 oz of Razzmatazz or Chambord
- 2.0 oz of sour mix
Should come out greenish in color, and very potent. Like a Long Island Iced Tea, but for the younger crowd.
Blue Pacific Margarita
This is a new classic that you might find at Chili's, for example. Just a margarita with a twist - a bright blue tint.
Like with any margarita, you will need some fresh limes and a sunny day to bask in. Get your favorite margarita glassware out and try this:
Toss contents into a shaker, mix and pour into glass over ice. Garnish with a lime and you have a blue margarita to partake of. Good for a change from the ordinary margarita.
Like with any margarita, you will need some fresh limes and a sunny day to bask in. Get your favorite margarita glassware out and try this:
- 1.5 oz of tequila (recommended, Sauza Conmemorativo)
- .5 oz of blue curacao
- .5 oz of Cointreau
- 3.0 oz of sour mix
- some fresh squeezed lime
Toss contents into a shaker, mix and pour into glass over ice. Garnish with a lime and you have a blue margarita to partake of. Good for a change from the ordinary margarita.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Welcome! Nunc Est Bibendum!
Well, this blog is going to be my own personal blog about drinking - not being inebriated, but the fine art of drinking.
As a bartender, I have made the most potent of potables for many a potor. How exactly this blog is going to work is simple - I will add an entry based on the kind of drink it is with its recipe and maybe a little story as well about the drink itself. I welcome any comments you may have about the drinks and possibly any you might want to add. If you have a good time at the hands of one of these drinks, please feel free to let me know!
And now, as the Romans say (well, Horace did) "Nunc Est Bibendum" - now it is time for drinking!
As a bartender, I have made the most potent of potables for many a potor. How exactly this blog is going to work is simple - I will add an entry based on the kind of drink it is with its recipe and maybe a little story as well about the drink itself. I welcome any comments you may have about the drinks and possibly any you might want to add. If you have a good time at the hands of one of these drinks, please feel free to let me know!
And now, as the Romans say (well, Horace did) "Nunc Est Bibendum" - now it is time for drinking!
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