The cocktail Agua de Cuba is a light, summery rum-based drink with fresh watermelon and subtle clove spice. I prefer to strain the cocktail in a red wine glass glass than in a flute.
INGREDIENTS
1 slice fresh chopped Watermelon
60 ml/ 2 oz. Havana Club 3 Year Old Rum
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. Falernum liqueur
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
METHOD
Cut watermelon into 16 segments, chop the flesh from one segment into cubes and muddle in base of shaker.
Halloween is a celebration observed in several countries on 31 October. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, playing pranks, carving pumpkins into jack-o`-lanterns, attending Halloween costume parties and making Halloween Drinks. The Pumpkin Cider is a great drink for a Halloween celebration.
INGREDIENTS
60 ml/ 2 oz. Vodka
15 ml/ ½ oz. pumpkin syrup
15 ml/ ½ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
Apple Cider
Ginger Beer
METHOD
Fill a red wine glass ½ with ice.
Combine 2 parts Vodka, ½ part freshly squeezed lemon juice and ½ part pumpkin syrup.
Then fill with equal parts apple cider and ginger beer to taste.
The Bay Breeze cocktail is similar to the Sea Breeze cocktail, only pineapple juice is used instead of grapefruit juice. The amount of ingredients used varies from recipe to recipe, with some calling for equal parts of all three to others upping either the cranberry or the pineapple juice.
INGREDIENTS
45 ml/ 1 ½ oz. vodka
120 ml/ 4 oz. cranberry juice
30 ml/ 1 oz. pineapple juice
METHOD
Builld all ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice.
The Drunken Helmsman cocktail is an original Tiki cocktail created by Jason Alexander of Tacoma Cabana in Tacoma, USA. When you try the cocktail for the first time, you will be amazed by the flavours and unusual ingredients. After a few of these, you’ll also have a hard time steering in the right direction.
INGREDIENTS
45 ml/ 1 ½ oz. overproof aged Rum
15 ml/ ½ oz. Amoro Nonino
15 ml/ ½ oz. Falernum
30 ml/ 1 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
15 ml/ ½ oz. maple syrup
METHOD
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake.
Strain into glass filles with crushed ice.
Garnish with an orange wedge and mint sprig bouquet.
The Adios MF cocktail contains Vodka, Rum, Gin, Tequila and Blue Curaçao, making it a drink guaranteed to get you drunk in the best way possible. It’s a very potent cocktail, it’s electric blue in appearance and it’s often recommended as the go-to 21st birthday cocktail recipe. The name oft he cocktail was established in the late 20th century, when shocking cocktail names were popular.
INGREDIENTS
30 ml/ 1 oz. Vodka
30 ml/ 1 oz. Rum
30 ml/ 1 oz. Gin
30 ml/ 1 oz. Tequila
60 ml/ 2 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix
30 ml/ 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
30 ml/ 1 oz. Sprite or 7up, to top
METHOD
Fill a glass with ice.
Pour in Vodka, Rum, Gin, Tequila, Sweet & Sour Mix and Blue Curaçao liqueur.
Stir to mix.
Top with Sprite or 7Up.
Garnish with a lemon slice and a cherry.
NOTES
The Adios MF is also named as the Adios Motherfucker, Adios Mother Fucker, Blue Motherfucker, Blue Long Island Iced Tea, Blue Motorcycle, the AMF cocktail, the AMF drink or just the AMF.
The 100 Year Old Cigar Cocktail has a broader appeal when served on-the-rocks in an old-fashioned glass, either way it tastes like a cigar in my opinion. So if you enjoy smoking a cigar, you might like this cocktail as well.
INGREDIENTS
5 ml/ ⅙ oz. Absinthe
50 ml/ 1 ⅔ oz. Havana Club 7 Year Old rum
15 ml/ ½ oz. Bénédictine
15 ml/ ½ oz. Cynar
5 ml/ ⅙ oz. Scotch Whisky
1 dash of Angostura Bitters
METHOD
Rinse chilled glass with Absinthe and set to one side.
The China Blue cocktail was emerged in Japan in the late 1990s and is still popular along the Pacific Rim. The cocktail looks sweet, but due to a generous splash of grapefruit is actually balanced and refreshing.
The cocktail Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is named after science fiction novel of the same name of the year 1974 by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel is set in a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state in the aftermath of a Second American Civil War. The story follows genetically enhanced pop singer and television star Jason Taverner who wakes up in a world where he has never existed. If that’s too complicated for you, the cocktail definitely exists.
INGREDIENTS
60 ml/ 2 oz. light Rum
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. Apricot Brandy
20 ml/ ⅔ oz. Green Chartreuse
15 ml/ ½ oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
METHOD
Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with an apricot wedge.
NOTES
Green Chartreuse (55% alcohol) is the original 1737 green liqueur, made from the 1605 recipe by Chartreuse Monks even today. The colour chartreuse is named after this liqueur.
Yellow Chartreuse (40% alcohol) was introduced in the 1800’s and is a milder, sweeter flavour and aroma than it’s older brother.
