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Cocktail O’Clock: Memorial Day Mojito

This new drink from Tony Abou-Ganim, The Modern Mixologist takes one of our favorite cocktails, the mojito, and amps it up with one of our favorite cocktail add-ons: ginger. Why didn’t we think of that before?

Memorial Day Mojito

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz Shellback Spiced rum
1 oz Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice
12-14 Fresh Mint Leaves
1 oz Ginger Syrup
4 slices of Mandarin or Clementine
2 oz Chilled Soda Water

Directions:

In a highball glass, lightly muddle lime juice, ginger syrup, sliced mandarin and mint leaves.

Add crushed ice and rum.

Stir until outside of glass begins to frost.

Top with chilled soda water.

Garnish with mint sprig.

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Cocktail O’Clock: Coffee Contraption

The Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans serves post-diner drinkers Café Brulot, a flaming cup of coffee made in a siphon that is infused with brandy, Cointreau, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, cardamom and orange peels. The technique became popular in the late 1800s, when the pre-prohibition movement had already taken off in Louisiana. It’s still used today because, as every teenager can tell you, drinking is always more fun when you have to hide it.

The Windsor Court was kind enough to pass on the original 1890s recipe they use, although I’m not sure how many of you have beakers and siphons at home to make this happen. Thoughts on how to rig this up using a coffee pot?

Café Brûlot

Cocktail O’Clock: Drinking for Poetry

April: it’s not just for rainy days and ramps—it’s also National Poetry Month! And how do we celebrate such an occasion What do you think? We drink!

In honor of National Poetry Month, The Betsy South Beach in Miami debuted the Mot Juste, a literary-minded cocktail that they promise will inspire creativity. Not sure how all that is supposed to work, but it sure looks refreshing.

Mot Juste

1 ¼ ounces Russels Reserve Rye
¾ ounce Artemisia Absinthe
¼ ounce yellow chartreuse
½ ounce fresh lemon juice
½ ounce simple syrup

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Cocktail O’Clock: Forget Green Beer

St. Patrick’s Day is no reason to get silly. Leave the green beer and jungle juice to the kids, and mix up our favorite Irish-inspired cocktail we’ve seen this year.

Irish Castaway

1 ounce Irish whiskey
1 ounce Shellback Spiced Rum
1/4 ounce vanilla liqueur
1/4 ounce lemon juice
Bar spoon of brown sugar
2 ounces Brut Champagne

Directions: Combine brown sugar and liquids except champagne in cocktail shaker, no ice. Stir to dissolve brown sugar. Add ice. Shake to blend. Strain into highball glass over fresh ice. Top with brut champagne.

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by cyborg

Sunday, Bloody Funday: Bloody Geisha

Look; if you see me on a Sunday afternoon, it is safe to assume that I’m drunk. Why? Because of this Bloody Geisha. This Sake Bloody Mary is the perfect drink to accompany your eggs benedict or any other brunch gems.

Let me just blow your mind by saying: bacon.bits.rim. YES!- Why has this not been instituted elsewhere? I refuse to live in a world where bacon bit rims aren’t a part of daily life. So if you need a twist to your Sunday brunch, follow my lead. Also, just in case you were wondering, those are blue cheese-stuffed olives and deep-fried jalapenos casually sitting next to BACON. Lets get jiggy.

Bloody Geisha

Cocktail O’Clock: Vodka Old Fashioned

Something funny is happening with vodka. In recent years, more and more small producers have made vodkas that are actually drinkable. Since the clear stuff no longer needs to be dulled over with cranberry juice or Kool-Aid, it’s time to start mixing some vodka cocktails that actually let the booze shine through. Enter: the old fashioned, with vodka subbed in to replace whiskey.

See-Through Old Fashioned

3 oz Broken Shed vodka
3 dash bitters
1 sugar cube
Zest of lemon/orange/grapefruit

In glass, add sugar cube with bitters and few slices of zest, add 3 oz. vodka and 4 cubes ice. Stir for 10-15 seconds.

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Cocktail O’Clock: Strawberry-Jalapeño Marg!

Just when I thought margaritas could not get any better, BOOM this appeared and it’s here to stay. If you haven’t had a strawberry-jalapeño margarita yet you must do so immediately. Let me tell you, as far as cocktails go, this one—named La Bamba—is a top-shelf MUST.

So refreshing, so dangerously delectable, AY AY AY! It makes me want to dance. Perfect drink for spring and the key behind getting business drunk. In fact, I love it so much I want it twenty four SEVEN and you will too!! Here’s the solution to all your problems:

To start: If one has jalapeño-infused tequila, do yourself a favor and muddle a fresh strawberry in Agave nectar.

* If one does not have jalapeño-infused tequila—NBD! Muddle a jalapeño slice (or more if you wish) with the strawberry in Agave nectar.

*Ice ice baby.

*Add 2 oz. of tequila (infused or not). Feel free to add more, nobody is judging you.

* Squeeze a lime-and-a-half worth of lime juice.

* Top off with lemon-lime soda (Sprite works)

* Shake shake shake.

* Pour into a cold pint glass prepped with a lime, sugar and salt rim.

* If you want to get fancy, garnish with a lime wheel and a strawberry.

* Cheers mate!

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