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The Kretchma Cocktail is February 12th Drink of the Day!!

February 12, 2014 | By Shaun the Bartender | Add a Comment

Other than its great flavor, once you can’t call for this drink at the bar, you know you’ve probably had one too many. A great combination of citrus and chocolate to help flavor the vodka base, this drink could be a good choice for your Valentine’s dinner you have planned with the one you love. Who can resist chocolate, right? It’s red hue will fit in nicely for the festivities and will show very well against a backdrop of the flames dancing around in the fireplace. Not only will you be able to warm yourselves while basking from it’s heat, you can toast your insides as well with every last drop.

Don’t relax too well just yet. You may be asked to make seconds.

Kretchma Cocktail

1 1/2 oz. Vodka

1 oz. Creme de Cacao

Juice from half lemon

Splash of Grenadine

Method: In a mixing glass filled with ice, pour in the first two ingredients to measure. Squeeze in the juice from one half lemon. Add a splash of grenadine. Cap off with a shaker tin and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Take a strip of peal from a lemon and proceed to twist it over the cocktail just made. Rub it gently along the rim of the glass before dropping it into the cocktail.

This Day in History:

1733 - The first English colonists arrived in what is now Savannah, Georgia.

1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.

1973 - Vietnam begins releasing prisoners of war.

2010 - In the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC, Canada, luger Nodar Kumaritashvii from the Republic of Georgia is killed on a practice run.

Notable Birthday:

The man who would be the face of the scandal on the gameshow “Twenty-One” in 1959, Charles Van Doren was born on this date in 1926.

Notable Quote:

“It is better to fail in originality than it is to succeed at imitation.” - Herman Melville