Happy Hour: Asciendo Drink Specials- The Phoenix Cocktail

The Phoenix, aka Tequila Sunrise

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz tequila
• 4–6 oz orange juice
• ½ oz grenadine
• Orange slice for garnish

Instructions

Place 3–4 ice cubes in a collins or highball glass.

Pour in tequila, then orange juice, and finally the grenadine.
Do not stir, let the grenadine settle to the bottom of the glass. This will create the “sunrise” effect.

Garnish with an orange slice.

Happy Hour: Asciendo Drink Specials- White Owl Cocktail

White Owl Cocktail, aka a Black Russian

2 parts Smirnoff Vodka
1 part Kahlua

Mix in cocktail shaker
Pour over ice

Happy Hour: Brooklyn Bridge Cocktail / 24 May is Brooklyn Bridge Day

2 oz. gin
1 oz. lemon puree
½ oz. simple syrup
1 oz. Lillet Blanc (if you can't find it, use a sweet wine)
2 oz. Pinot Noir

Get your handy shaker, combine everything with ice, except for the wine! Shake, strain into a tall glass that's been filled with ice. Then carefully pour the sweet wine so it floats on top of the drink. Decorate with a lemon, lime, whatever you feel like!


http://www.luuux.com/food/brooklyn-bridge-cocktail

Happy Hour: Badge of Honor Cocktail

Badge of Honor

1 oz. Pucker Lemonade Lust Vodka
4 oz. lemonade
½ oz. DeKuyper Blue Curaçao
Garnish: lime wedge

Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Stir and garnish with a lime wedge.

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Happy Hour: Purple Haze Cocktail

Purple Haze Cocktail

1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz Chambord® raspberry liqueur
1 oz sweet and sour mix
7-Up® soda

Add liquors to an ice-filled margarita glass. Add sour mix, top with 7-up, and serve.

Serve in: Margarita Glass

Read more: Purple Haze drink recipes http://www.drinksmixer.com/cat/3303/#ixzz2TWAaf1qA

Happy Hour- Hurricane Cocktail

 
Hurricane Cocktail

1 oz vodka
1 oz gin
1 oz light rum
1/2 oz 151 proof rum
1 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz triple sec
grapefruit juice
pineapple juice
grenadine syrup

Pour gin, rums, amaretto, and triple sec into a hurricane glass with ice. Add equal amounts of grapefruit juice and pineapple juice until almost full. Top with grenadine to taste.

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Happy Hour: Hurricane Cocktail- New Orleans Style

 
Hurricane, New Orleans Style

1 oz white rum
1 oz Jamaican dark rum
1 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
3 oz orange juice
3 oz unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 oz grenadine syrup crushed ice

Combine all ingredients, mix well (shake or stir). Pour over crushed ice in hurricane glass. Best enjoyed through a small straw. Garnish with fruit wedge if desired.

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Happy Hour: Cocktails for Cinco de Mayo - Mexi-tini, Toronha and Acai Berry Margaritas

Happy Hour: The Mary Pickford Cocktail

Mary Pickford Cocktail

May 1943

Though the recipe doesn’t say so, you should fill a cocktail shaker 3/4 of the way with cracked ice, shake the ingredients well, and strain the drink into a chilled cocktail glass. There are several brands of maraschino liqueur available; Luxardo is probably the most versatile.

Take 2 ounces Gold Label rum, 1 ounce fresh pineapple juice, a dash of grenadine, and a dash of maraschino liqueur—these last to taste. Must be very cold to be good.

Happy Hour: The Earthquake Cocktail to toast Charles Richter on National Richter Scale Day (Richter Scale invented in 1935 to measure the seismic waves produced by an earthquake)

 

Earthquake Cocktail

1/3 gin

1/3 whiskey

1/3 absinthe

Shake with ice. Strain into cocktail glass.

Ed. Note: So called because if there should happen to be an earthquake when you are drinking it, it won't matter. This is a cocktail whose potency is not to be taken too lightly or for that matter, too frequently! 

Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

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Happy Hour: Alexander Cocktail

 

Alexander Cocktail recipe

1 oz gin
1 oz white creme de cacao
1 oz light cream
nutmeg

Shake all ingredients (except nutmeg) with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top and serve.

Serve in: Cocktail Glass

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Happy Hour: Amaretto Alexander Cocktail

Amaretto Alexander

Ingredients :
2 oz  amaretto
1.5 oz white creme de cacao
1 oz fresh cream
Freshly grated nutmeg, for garnish

Instructions : Shake over ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Add the garnish.

Glass type : cocktail

Happy Hour: Cherry Cheesecake Martini 23 April is National Cherry Cheesecake Day

Happy Hour: Mudslide Cocktail

Mudslide

 

 

 

Ingredients:

• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz coffee liqueur
• 1 oz Irish cream liqueur

Preparation:

Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice.

Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake well.

Strain into the old-fashioned glass.

Happy Hour: Mai Tai Cocktail

Mai Tai

• 1 ounce light rum
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 1/4 ounce lime juice
• 1 1/2 ounces pineapple juice
• 1 1/2 ounces orange juice
• Dash of grenadine
• 1/2 ounce dark rum
• Maraschino cherry and orange slice for garnish

1. Pour all the ingredients except the dark rum into a shaker with ice cubes.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into an old-fashioned glass half filled with ice.
4. Top with the dark rum.
5. Garnish with the cherry and orange slice.

Happy Hour: Mint Julep Cocktail- Civil War Era Recipe

MINT JULEP

3/4 to 1 cup brandy or cognac
1/2 tsp. rum
2 and 1/2 tbs. water
1 tbs. sugar
Several fresh mint leaves

Dissolve one tablespoon of white pulverized sugar in two and one-half tablespoons of water. Take two sprigs of fresh mint and press them well in the sugar and water, until the flavor of mint is extracted; add one wine glass of Cognac brandy, and fill the glass with fine shaved ice, then draw out the sprigs of mint and insert them in the ice with the stems downward, so that the leaves will be above, in the shape of a bouquet; arrange berries, and small pieces of sliced orange on top in a tasty manner, dash with Jamaican rum, and sprinkle white sugar on top. Place a straw [across the top of the glass], and you will have a julep that is fit for an emperor.

From Bon-Vivant's Companion by Jerry Thomas, New York, 1862.
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/CookbookBuzz1.htm 

Happy Hour: Mississippi Punch- Civil War Era Cocktail Recipe

MISSISSIPPI PUNCH

    (For a Single Serving)

1 wine glass brandy
1/2 wine glass Jamaica rum
1/2 wine glass bourbon whiskey
1/2 wine glass water
1/4 large lemon
1 and 1/2 tbs. powdered white sugar

Place the above in a large tumbler filled with shaved ice. Shake well, and to those who like their draughts
"like linked sweetness long drawn out," let them use a glass tube or a straw to sip the nectar through. The top of this punch should be ornamented with small pieces of orange, and berries in season. For a large party, multiply the above by the number of imbibers and mix in a punch bowl.

From Bon-Vivant's Companion by Jerry Thomas, 1862.
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/CookbookBuzz2.htm

Happy Hour: Coffee Cake Martini / 7 April is National Coffee Cake Day

Coffee Cake Martini


 

A martini that tastes like coffee cake

Ingredients:

2 ounces espresso-flavored vodka (Van Gogh)
1/4 ounce cinnamon schnapps
1/2 ounce Baileys Irish Cream

Directions:

Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with crushed ice. 

Shake and strain into a martini glass.

Read more at: http://www.food.com/recipe/coffee-cake-martini-322157?oc=linkback

Happy Hour: Cosmopolitan Cocktail

 

Cosmopolitan Cocktail

Ingredients

1½ shots citrus vodka
½ shot Cointreau
¾ shot cranberry juice
½ shot lime juice
2 dashes orange bitters

Shake all ingredients well with ice and fine strain in to a cocktail glass rimmed with sugar.
Garnish with a flamed orange zest.

Happy Hour: Long Island Iced Tea

Long Island Iced Tea

 Ingredients:

1 part vodka

1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coca-Cola®

Mix ingredients together over ice in a highball glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top. Garnish with lemon or lime. 

The Long Island Iced Tea (LIIT) is the basis of many elaborate mixed-drinks. It dates to the 70's, named after the continental USA's largest island Long Island, in New York. Although it doesn't contain tea, it's taste is similar. The drink sits in the top 5 of most popular cocktails and is regularly mentioned or seen served in television and films (worthy mentions are The Simpsons, Sex and the City and Cruel Intentions).

Read more: Long Island Iced Tea recipe http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink590.html#ixzz2PbhEL8Nu