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How to make: Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.; Rim glass with sugar (moisten the outside edge with orange juice and dip into sugar). Prepare garnish of mint leaf.

How to make: Select and pre-chill a Shot glass.; Prepare garnish of sugar coated lemon slice. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.; FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.; Garnish with sugar coated lemon slice.

History: This infamous drink reached the height of its popularity in the early 1980s and by 1985 The New York Times reported, "A potent alcoholic drink called Long Island Iced Tea is sweeping the Island's bars as well as watering spots across the country. Of the many stories surrounding its origin, perhaps the most credible attributes its creation to …

Formulated by Carthusian monks to a recipe dating back to 1764, Chartreuse Verte (Green Chartreuse) adds very distinctive complex herbal notes to a wide variety of cocktails, and with its muscular 55% alcohol strength, it perhaps should be viewed as much as a base spirit as it if a flavour modifying liqueur.

History: Cocktail historian David Wondrich has traced the origins of the Dirty Martini back to 1901 and a bartender called John E. O'Connor, who served a Dry Martini with muddled olives at New York's Waldorf Astoria. The first written reference to brine being added to a Martini-style cocktail appears in G.H. Steele's 1930 My New Cocktail Book. Good …

History: Legend has it that the Sazerac was originally made with cognac, but due to the phylloxera plague hitting cognac supplies in the 1870s (see Sazerac history), rye whiskey was substituted.As bourbon started to dominate American whiskey, many bartenders started making Sazeracs with bourbon rather than rye.

The best Cosmopolitan recipe. A Cosmopolitan comprises vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice and lime juice. But what are the best proportions of each, and should the vodka be citrus-flavoured, unflavoured, or a combination of the two?

Discover how to make a Whiskey Sour (Difford's recipe) using Bourbon whiskey, Lemon juice, Sugar syrup (2:1) (+ 3 more) in 6 easy to follow steps

Vodka's success is partly due to its being marketed from the 1940s as a clear, pure, clean spirit that will mix with anything. Accordingly, some regard it as having little aroma and taste, and indeed, some vodkas are very neutral. It's the subtlety of flavour that makes vodka such a versatile cocktail ingredient, fortifying, supporting, and …