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drink recipes
January 2009
g
ood drink mixes are hard to find... so I've added a few of my favourites and a few unique mixes that are probably called something else in your city; there are only so many types of alcohol and someone at some point in time or another has invented the same one and called it by another name.
Life wouldn't be the same without a couple of drinks in the mix now, wouldn't it?
Sage Cocktail
Shochu
Almond Mint Iced Tea with Rum
Absinthe
Green Martian Urine Sample
1 1/2 oz Hendrick's gin
1 oz sage-infused simple syrup
3 - 5 oz Prosecco
1 Part Shochu
1 Part Cranberry Juice
1 Part fresh Pear Juice
3 tea bags
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoons almond extract
Juice of 2 lemons
½ ounce of spiced rum per glass
Sprigs of mint
Orange slices and raspberries for garnish
1 bottle, Taboo Absinthe
- avail thru Okanagan Spirits
(absinthe spoon recommended)
Blue Curacao
Grenadine
gin
tanquary
Mix gin and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a highball glass over ice. Top with Prosecco and stir gently. Garnish with cucumber slices and a sage sprig.
Add Shochu, Cranberry Juice and Pear Juice to shaker with cracked ice and shake. In a tall thin glass, muddle fresh mint leaves. Strain mixed drink into the glass.
In a saucepan, bring 2 cups of water to a boil. Reduce to simmer and add tea bags. Let steep for 5 minutes. Remove tea bags. Add sugar, extracts, sprigs of mint and lemon juice. Simmer and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat. Remove mint leaves.
Add 6 cups of cold water and chill. Serve tea over ice, with the spiced rum and springs of mint and fresh fruit for garnish, into glasses.
Pour a dose of absinthe into a glass, then place a sugar cube on an absinthe spoon or teaspoon.
Soak the sugar in absinthe by pouring a little over it.
Light the absinthe-soaked sugar on fire for about one minute, allowing the sugar to caramelize and melt.
The burning, melted sugar will drip into the absinthe, which will then ignite. If it doesn't completely melt, just pour it into the glass, add ice cold water to the absinthe to quench the flames and produce a colour change effect.
this is a pretty tricky one to mix, because you have to get that perfect tang of glowing phosphorecent green...
Ask me in a bar, and I'll guarantee a groovy drink.
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