Drink of the week:Halley’s Comet

Ingredients for a Halley’s Comet

• Vodka
• Cointreau
• Strawberry Liqueur
• White Cranberry Juice
• Lemon Juice

Quantities for one drink:

• 1.01 oz Vodka
• 0.51 oz Cointreau
• 1.01 oz Strawberry Liqueur
• 1.01 oz White Cranberry Juice
• 15 oz Lemon Juice

Blending Instructions:

• Pour all ingredients over ice in a shaker
• Shake and strain into glass
• Garnish with a fresh strawberry

Serving Glass

Cocktail Glass

Also known as a martini glass. The shape of the glass helps keep ingredients from separating, and the stem allows the drink to stay cool while holding.
Size: 4 to 6 ounces

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Brandy Alexander

Mix 1 ounce each of creme de cacoa and brandy. Add a splash of cream (more to taste). Pour into a stemmed glass and embellish with nutmeg.

Hot Buttered Rum

Twist a strip of lemon into a coffee mug, then drop in the peel and a clove. Pour in 2 ounces of rum and fill almost to the top with hot cider. Top with a pat of butter and add a cinnamon stick.

Cosmopolitan Martini

In a martini pitcher filled with a few ice cubes, stir in 1 1/2 ounces of vodka with 1/2 teaspoon of dry vermouth and 1/2 ounce of cranberry juice. Stir, strain, and pour into a martini glass.

Cosmopolitan

In a pitcher or shaker, combine 4 parts Absolut Citron Vodka with 2 parts each of cranberry juice and triple sec (or Cointreau) and 1 part lime juice. Shake, strain, and pour into martini or cocktail glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

Long Island Iced Tea

In a shaker, add 3/4 ounce each of rum, gin, vodka, tequila, triple sec, and sour mix. Shake. Pour into tall, ice-filled glass. Add a splash of cola. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Manhattan

Combine 1 1/2 ounces of rye with 3/4 ounce of sweet vermouth. Add a dash of Angostura bitters. Pour ingredients in an ice-filled glass. Stir. Strain the drink into a chilled manhattan or a rocks glass, and keep the ice in the shaker. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Mint Julep

Take 2 sprigs of mint, [1/4] cup of water, and 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar. Muddle the ingredients with a mortar and pestle or emulsify in a blender for a few seconds. Pour over crushed ice. Add 3 ounces of bourbon. Stir, strain, and pour into a tall glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.

Old-Fashioned

In an ice-filled rocks glass, pour 2 ounces of bourbon. Add a splash of simple syrup, Angostura bitters, and club soda, stir, and serve.

Rob Roy

Combine 1 1/2 ounces of Scotch with 1/2 ounce of sweet vermouth and a dash of bitters, if desired. Pour over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a skewered cherry or orange twist.

Rusty Nail

In a rocks glass, pour 1 ounce each of Scotch and Drambuie over ice.

There are a number of Collins recipes–Vodka Collins and Rum Collins are two. However, here are the basic ingredients for the more popular…

Tom Collins

Mix 1 1/2 ounces of gin with 1/2 teaspoon of powdered sugar (or more for a sweeter Collins) and the juice of 1/2 a lemon with a splash of club soda or seltzer in a tall, ice-filled glass. If you’d like, dress up the drink with maraschino cherries.

Vodka Martini

Combine 2 ounces of vodka with a splash of dry vermouth.
Pour over a handful of ice in a martini shaker or pitcher. Gently stir. Put strainer over shaker and pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a green olive on a toothpick or spear.

Whiskey Sour

Combine 2 ounces of blended whiskey to the juice of 1/2 a lemon and 1/2 teaspoon of powdered sugar into an ice-filled shaker. Shake, strain, and pour into a sour glass or champagne flute. You also can pour over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a slice of lemon speared onto a skewer and topped with a maraschino cherry.

 

 

Brunch Beverages

While there are many of us who can barely get down a cup of coffee for breakfast, we will often welcome some of the more potent eye-openers usually offered at a brunch. They’re the beverages of choice for a breakfast or brunch buffet.

Bloody Mary

Combine 6 ounces of tomato juice with 1-1/2 ounces vodka. Add a dash of Tabasco sauce, salt, pepper, Worcestershire, and the juice from a wedge of lime. Pour over ice in a tall glass. Garnish with celery.

Orange Blossoms

In a tall, ice-filled pitcher, add 1 1/2 ounces of gin for each serving. Fill the rest of the pitcher with orange juice and stir.

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Drink of the Week: Jim Beam Black Beauty

Jim Beam Black Beauty
1/2 part Jim Beam Black
1 DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps
Splash cranberry juice
Mix Jim Beam Black with DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps; add a splash of cranberry juice; serve in a martini glass with a sugar rim

Drink of the week:Martini Cocktail recipe

1 1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz dry vermouth

Stir with ice cubes, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an olive or a twist of lemon.

Drink of the week: Incredible Hulk

This is simple, but it’s cool looking and tastes good!

Ingredient	Amount
Cognac (Hennessy)	2 oz.
Hpnotiq	3 oz.

Mixing Instructions

Chill both the beverages before use. Add 3 parts Hypnotiq to the cocktail glass. Then add the two parts Hennessy cognac. The result is a mean green drink with a fruity but killer bite.

Drinking game: King

king uses a standard deck of playing cards. The deck of cards are shuffled and spread down on a table, usually in a circle. In some variations, a cup is placed in the center of the table. The play goes around the table with each player drawing one card at a time. Each card has a different action associated with it, which are listed below.

2) Screw You
Nominate someone to take 2 drinks.

3) Screw Me
Person who turned the card takes 3 drinks.

4) Whores
Females take a drink.

5) Social
Social drink

6) Dicks
All guys must drink.

7) Thumbmaster
Watch for the thumbmaster to put their thumb on the table and follow suit when they do. Last to do it, drinks.

Waterfall
Everyone drinks until the person before them puts their cup down. The card picker is the first to put their cup down.

9) Rhyme
The card picker says a word then each person after rhymes with it. First to mess up drinks.

10) Categories
Player picks a category and other players begin to name items which fit into that category.

J) Back
Person previous to card picker must take a drink.

Q) Questions
Person who turned the card must form anything they say in a question. Others in the game must do the same. First person who does not frame whatever they say in a question must take one drink as punishment.

K) King’s Cup
Take one…. OR…..Person who turned the card quarter-fills the King’s Cup. If he/she turned the 4th King in the deck, they must also drink the contents of the Cup. They are only allowed to take a number of attempts which is equal to the number of Kings drawn throughout the course of the game. For example, if 4 Kings were drawn, 4 attempts would be allowed.

A) Make A Rule
Person who turned the card announces a rule which all players must adhere to before drinking. Penalty for not following the rule is to take a drink.

Drinking Games: Beer 99

An interesting card game involving that “new” math. Mid level buzz factor. Supplies: people, beer, and a deck of cards.

The object of the game is to play cards into a pile and have the value of the pile equal 99. You start off by dealing four cards to each player, then turn the top card over. Play goes around the circle with each person playing a card, mentally keeping track of total value of the pile.

Special cards:

King

Kept to avoid drinking or place drinking responsibilities on Someone else, usually used near end of game.

Four

used as a skip card when you have none to play, can also be used to skip drinking responsibilities goes.

Tens

When in the 90’s, this drops the value of pile by 10, otherwise its a regular card.

Socials occur whenever the total equals a number ending in 9. Special socials on 69 and 71. On special you must drink twice.

Whoever gets hit with 99 must drink 1/2 glass.

After you play a card, draw another from the stack. When out of cards, reshuffle those already played.

Drink of the week:Chocolate Rum

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Chocolate Rum

• 1 tsp 151-proof Rum
• 1 oz Light Rum
• 1/2 oz Brown Creme de Cacao
• 1/2 oz White Creme de Menthe
• 1 tbsp Light Cream
• Ice
• Chocolate Syrup

Shake with ice and strain into a glass half filled with ice cubes. Drizzle chocolate syrup over the top.

Mixed drinks:New Year’s Resolution

2 oz	Cinnamon Schnapps
10 oz	Red Champagne

Best thing is to put the schnapps in a shot and dump it in a glass containing champagne. This was discovered accidentally, but became a party favorite instantly.

Drink of the Week:Mint Julep

• 2 1/2 oz Bourbon
• 4 sprigs Mint
• 1 tsp Powdered Sugar
• 2 tsp Water

In a julep cup or a mug muddle mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water. Fill the glass or mug with crushed ice and add Bourbon. Top with more ice and a mint spring