Here’s a vodka drink that ends up having that color you see during a desert sunset, hence the name. A nice, refreshing, fruity beverage that will have you thinking a nice summertime dusk while enjoying the nutrients of it’s fresh ingredients. I had the opportunity to use Crystal Head Vodka, a super-premium vodka from Newfoundland, Canada, […]
Since we’ve been somewhat slow on the draw with the tequila drinks, let’s go ahead and get another one to you for the second day in a row. With this one, it will be more of a sipping by the pool or while cooking burgers type drink. One that you will surely pour yourself again […]
As I was trying to figure out what to put down for the drink of the day, I began to watch the snow fall and looked at the thermometer on the porch that was having a hard time reaching 20F. That’s when I started thinking about my family’s last big trip, when we spent one […]
Who says you have to have a frozen drink to enjoy a nice and tropical rum cocktail! Move over daiquiris and coladas, here’s a cream drink that will put you in the place you want to be. Rum and banana together make a great combination. Add the cream and grenadine and you have yourself a […]
This cocktail won a competition being held by Booth’s Gin back in 1933. Arthur Tarling, a British bartender, came up with this very smooth and enjoyable gin cocktail. Grand Marnier, being another key ingredient in this drink, has taken this drink in to promote their liqueur. I attempted to do a little modernization to this […]
One of the things that happened on this day was the wedding of the stunning Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. Though the marriage lasted less than a year, this is a cocktail that will be memorable enough to last a lifetime. Not a surprise, this is champagne based, since we’re talking about one of the […]
This cocktail was popular enough to make the small list David Embury put together as a bartender’s basic six cocktails in his classic barbook, “The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks”. which is to this day one of the best selling books in its genre. The other five were the daiquiri, old fashioned, martini, manhattan, and […]
In 1911, a Norwegian five-man expedition led by Roald Amundsen, would reach the South Pole on this day. They would become the first people to set foot on the South Pole, beating out a British Expedition led by Robert F. Scott and his five man crew by five weeks. The other four in Amundsen’s party were […]
North Carolina would become part of the original thirteen states on this date in 1789, when it became the 12th state of the United States. To celebrate this, how about a drink that shares it’s name. The Carolina Cocktail is an interesting cream cocktail that has egg whites as part of its recipe. The egg […]
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