August 2017 - A To Z Posting Contest - Drinking - No Repeats

Pimp my Cherry

5 oz. Vodka or Gin
2 oz. Chocolate Syrup
2 big dash Maraschino Cherry Syrup or Hershey's cherry syrup
1 sprinkle Cinnamon (optional)
1 whole Maraschino Cherry

Add half Chocolate syrup in highball glass , swirl around glass then add cherry syrup. Pour liquor taking care not to overly disturb syrup. Add the rest of chocolate syrup, drop in the cherry and sprinkle with cinnamon if desired.

Q.... Quiet But Quick

1 1/2 oz Vodka

1/2 oz Cherry Brandy

1 oz Orange Juice

1 dash Orange Bitters
Pour vodka, cherry brandy, orange juice and bitters into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

Rain Forest

1 oz. Stoli Razberri
1 oz. Malibu
1 oz. 99 Bananas
1 splash Pineapple Juice
1 splash Cranberry Juice

Over ice with a slice of lemon and lime.

S....SALTY DOG
1 1/2 oz GIN OR VODKA
3 oz GRAPEFRUIT JUICE

COMBINE GIN OR VODKA AND GRAPEFRUIT JUICE IN A SHAKER FILLED WITH ICE. SALT THE RIM OF A HIGHBALL GLASS, FILLED WITH ICE, POUR DRINK IN
THE HIGHBALL GLASS AND SERVE.

The Countess Cocktail

Qty.
Ingredients
1 oz.
Vodka
1 oz.
Peter Heering
1/2 oz.
Triple Sec
1 1/2 oz.
Orange Juice
1 1/2 oz.
Grapefruit Juice

Glass type: Old Fashioned
Directions: Mix everything with cracked ice and pour into glass

T - Temptation Cocktail

1 1/2 oz blended whiskey
1/2 tsp Dubonnet® French vermouth
1/2 tsp triple sec
1/2 tsp anis liqueur
1 twist orange peel
1 twist lemon peel

Shake blended whiskey, Dubonnet, triple sec, and anis with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Add the twists of orange and lemon peel and serve

ooops Maw beat me to the punch by a few seconds

U - Union Appletini

1 oz. Phillips Union® blended whiskey
1 oz. Fresh cranberry juice
1 oz. Sour apple liqueur

Combine ingredients into a martini shaker. Shake with ice, strain into a martini glass and garnish with a lime twist.

V-Jack

1 1/2 oz. Jack Daniels
1/2 oz. Vanilla Liqueur
Fill Cola

Mix ingredients over ice in a highball glass. Fill with Cola.

W - White Russian

Ingredients:
-2 oz vodka
-1 oz Kahlúa
-½ oz cream or half & half

Instructions: Combine first two ingredients over ice in a rocks glass, float cream on top.

X...X RATED FUSION LIQUEUR, IS FRUIT BASED FRENCH VODKA MADE BY THE CAMPARI GROUP, AND INTRODUCED INTO THE USA IN 2005. IT HAS AN
ALCOHOL CONTENT OF 17 PERCENT FER VOLUME.

Yellow Monkey

1/2 oz. Galliano
1/2 oz. Creme de Cacao
1/2 oz. Rum
1 oz. Cream
1/2 Banana (peeled)

Blend all ingredients at a slow speed until smooth. Pour into a cocktail glass.

Z - Zima Shake

64 oz. Ice Cream

36 oz. Zima (Beer)

Drink Recipe Instruction:

Blend in blender on high speed, or in shaker, till smooth pour into glasses and serve

A - American Beauty

Ingredients:
-2 oz Bluecoat gin
-1 oz fresh-lemon juice
-¾ oz simple syrup*
-3 fresh raspberries and 3 fresh blueberries
-4–6 mint leaves

Instructions: Add lemon juice, mint and berries into mixing glass and lightly muddle. Add the remaining ingredients into mixing glass along with ice and shake vigorously. Fine-strain over the rocks into a double old-fashioned glass and top with a splash of soda. Garnish with lemon wheel and one raspberry.

*To make simple syrup, combine one part hot water to one part sugar. Stir until all sugar is dissolved and allow to cool.

B - Back Row Cocktail

The three liquors used in this drink were in the back row of the founders liquor cabinet thus the name

1 1/2 oz Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
1 1/2 oz Gordon's® gin
1 1/2 oz Jim Beam® bourbon whiskey
1 1/2 oz triple sec
1 1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
3 oz ginger ale

Pour all ingredients in above order into a collins glass half-filled with ice cubes. Stir briefly and serve.

Candy Land

1/3 oz. Peppermint Schnapps
1/3 oz. Melon Liqueur
1/3 oz. Dr. Pepper

Directions: Mix'em and take'em