Well here we are, the Friday before one of the most famous party holidays of the year. You might be surprised to know that while St. Patrick’s day is often thought to be one of the biggest drinking days of the year, it actually appears down the list a ways, with Thanksgiving eve ranking #1 among the hoisting holidays.

Because St Patrick’s day falls on a Sunday this year, you can expect that happy hour today will most likely kick off a three-day brawl for many. Bars and pubs will be shoulder to shoulder full of patrons dressed in green, speaking in tongues, and probably spilling about half as much of some green drink as they consume.  Sounds like a party I hate to miss, but since I have a fear of bag pipes…….. I guess I will be content to stay home.  But there is no reason I can not celebrate in my own fashion, with a Dublintini, that way if I get a wee bit flathered or knackered, I won’t have far to be a going.

December 15, 2018 – A little update to our post.  We are very excited to have had our drink included by USA TODAY in their Thanksgiving & CO. America’s Home for the Holidays drink guide.

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Dublintini

An Irish spin on the martini. This one will definitely get you in the mood for the wearin’ of the green.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 2 oz Irish Whiskey
• 1 oz sour apple schnapps
• 2 oz white cranberry juice

Instructions

• Place all ingredients in a shaker.
• Add ice and shake vigorously until your hands are frozen.
• Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a slice of fresh green apple.

And if you are going out, here are a few toasts that might come in handy:

May your home always be too small to hold your friends.

May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Here’s to you and yours and to mine and ours. And if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours as mine and ours would do for you and yours!

Here’s to a long life and a merry one.  A quick death and an easy one.  A pretty girl and an honest one.  A cold beer – and another one!

May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up.

May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.

I hope every one enjoys a safe and fun weekend!  Sláinte!

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Sophisticated, enticing, and unexpectedly strong, the Kahlua espresso martini is a great way to start your weekend.

The story of the creation of this drink rumors that a supermodel, exhausted from a long day on the runway stopped into a bar in London’s Soho district. She asked the bartender for something a little different, something unexpected. Luckily for her, the person behind the bar happened to be a famous barman internationally know for his bartending skills. The model loved the drink, and soon the word was out. Fashion magazines covered the story, and the drink soon became popular in the fashion business, being called “The drink of style”.

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Kahlua Espresso Martini

Sophisticated, enticing, and unexpectedly strong, the Kahlua espresso martini is a great way to start your weekend.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 2 oz Kahlua
• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz freshly brewed espresso (room temperature)

Instructions

• Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half full of ice.
• Shake very well (creates the foamy goodness).
• Pour through a strainer into a chilled martini glass.
• Garnish with coffee beans.

 

 Life is short, take some time to enjoy and have a great weekend!

 

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Deliciously fruity, packing a powerful punch, the hurricane cocktail is a great way to forget about the work week. Named for the shape of the glass it is served in, (resembling a hurricane lamp), this sweet, daiquiri style drink came into existence in a small bar in New Orleans.

During the 1930’s, Pat O’Brien owned a speakeasy in the French Quarter. When prohibition ended, O’Brien converted his operation into a legitimate establishment. Business was good, and the place was always filled with local folks sharing lively conversation, enjoying music played on the upright piano in the corner of the bar. It wasn’t long before Pat’s business was busting at the seams, so O’Brien decided to become partners with his good friend Charlie Cantrell, and together they purchased a larger building just a block away at 718 St. Peter Street, where it is still in operation today.

Whiskey, bourbon and scotch were in short supply in the early 1940’s. Local liquor men strong armed bar owners to buy large amounts of rum (which was readily available) in order to get the liquor they needed. O’Brien created the hurricane, and gave it to sailors as a way to get rid of the extra rum. Well the drink caught on, and the rest is history. Today the hurricane is as iconic to New Orleans as the saxophone and the crayfish, and no visit to the French Quarter would be complete with out one.

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Hurricane Cocktail

Believed to be the original Hurricane cocktail recipe from Pat O’Brien’s in New Orleans.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 2 oz light rum
• 2 oz dark rum
• 2 oz passion fruit juice
• 1 oz orange juice
• ½ oz fresh lime juice
• 1 tablespoon simple syrup
• 1 tablespoon grenadine
• orange slice and cherry

Instructions

• Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
• Strain into a Hurricane glass filled with ice.
• Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.

I hope everyone enjoys a fantastic weekend!

Tahitian for “Out of this World”, a Mai Tai is the perfect escape from the work week. No other drink seems to say “I ‘m on vacation” the way this fruity beauty does.  Victor Bergron, one of the founders of the Tiki Bar, invented this tropical concoction in Oakland’s Trader Vic’s in 1944. The drink has remained extremely popular, and has become synonymous with South Sea Islands and exotic travel.

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Original Bergron’s Mai Tai

Tahitian for “Out of this World”, a Mai Tai is the perfect escape. No other drink seems to say “I ‘m on vacation” the way this fruity beauty does.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

Original Bergron’s Mai Tai

• 1 oz light rum
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1/2 oz orange curacao
• 1/2 oz orgeat syrup almond flavored
• 1 oz dark rum
• maraschino cherry for garnish

Pineapple juice 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
• 1 dash of grenadine
• 1/2 ounce dark rum

Instructions

Original Mai Tai

• Pour all the ingredients except the dark rum into a shaker with ice cubes. Shake well.
• Strain into an old-fashioned glass half filled with ice.
• Top with the dark rum.
• Garnish with the cherry and pineapple.

Pineapple juice Mai Tai

• Prepare in the same manner as above, adding dark rum after mixing.

So enjoy a Mai Tai and have a tropical vacation this weekend, well as least feel like maybe you did.

Have a Great Weekend everyone! Life is short, take some time to relax!

Ice cold, smooth, and easy, exactly what you need to relax after a long hot week. Baileys Irish cream poured over frozen cubes of coffee. The ultimate iced coffee combined with a cocktail. What a perfect way to enjoy the evening.

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Baileys over Black Ice

The ultimate iced coffee combined with a cocktail. Baileys Irish cream poured over frozen cubes of coffee.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• black ice frozen cubes of coffee
• Baileys Irish cream

Instructions

• Fill an ice cube tray with coffee or espresso and freeze.
• Place black ice cubes in rocks glass and pour Irish cream over.
• Enjoy!

Notes

Black ice can be frozen ahead of time and stored in a freezer bag.

 

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Homemade Baileys Irish Cream

Creamy and smooth just like the real thing.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 24

Ingredients

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 can (14 ounce) sweetened condensed milk
• 1 2/3 cups Irish whiskey
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
• 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

• In a blender, combine heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, Irish whiskey, instant coffee, chocolate syrup, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
• Blend on high for 20 to 30 seconds.
• Store in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator.
• Shake well before serving.

I hope everyone stays cool and enjoys a Great Weekend!

Smooth, delicious, and refreshing, the white Russian is like an iced-coffee with an added kick, and a perfect way to end your week.

The White Russian as we enjoy it today was first documented in the Oakland Tribune in November 1965. According to the Oxford English Dictionary this is widely believed to be the first published instance of the cocktail. However a cocktail called the “White Russian” appeared in a Southern Comfort ad in the Boston Globe that predates the Oakland mention, as one of the cocktails to make using the now long forgotten Coffee Southern liqueur.

The black Russian is understood to have originated in Brussels, Belgium in 1949. Neither drink is actually Russian, the name was given because of the use of vodka. There is speculation that both drinks may have been invented around the same time and that only written credit was given to the drink in the mid 60’s.

The white Russian became quite popular during the 70’s disco craze, but seemed to have been packed away with the mirrored balls and forgotten, until a 1998 Coen brother film, The Big Lewbowski starring Jeff Bridges singlehandedly vaulted the drink into the realm of legends.

Another movie reference to the famous cocktail is the 2004 film Catwoman, when the protagonist orders a drink.  “White Russian, no ice, no vodka … hold the Kahlua”

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White Russian

Cool, smooth, and delicious. Coffee liquor with a velvety finish.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 1 oz Kahula
• 1 oz vodka
• 1 oz cream or half and half

Instructions

• Fill a rocks glass with ice.
• Add the first to ingredients and stir.
• Add the cream and stir again.

Notes

As most drinks that have been around for a while there are many variations, here a just a few.

 White Canadian – made with goat’s milk

 Blind Russian – made with Baileys Irish Cream instead of cream

White Mexican – made with horchata

Anna Kournikova- made with skimmed milk

White Cuban – made with rum instead of vodka

 As always I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Appropriately named, this old fashioned cocktail has been around a long time, first documented in the May 6, 1806 edition of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York. In describing the drink known at the time as a bittered sling, the paper’s editor wrote, “a potent concoction of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar”.

The first alleged use of the specific name “Old Fashioned” was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen’s club in Louisville, Kentucky. The recipe is said to have been invented by a bartender at that club, and popularized by a club member and bourbon distiller, Colonel James E. Pepper, who later brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.

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Old Fashioned Cocktail

The original bourbon whiskey cocktail

Course Cocktails

Cuisine American

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 2 ounce bourbon or rye whiskey
• 1 small sugar cube
• 3 dashes Angostura bitters
• ¼ ounce seltzer water
• lemon peel
• Ice cubes

Instructions

• Place the sugar cube in the bottom of a rocks glass. Add 3 dashes of Angostura bitters and a splash of seltzer water. Using the back a bar spoon or a bar muddle, smash the sugar cube until well dissolved.
• Add bourbon then ice.
• Slice a large piece of lemon peel. Rub the rim of the glass with the lemon and twist it over the drink before serving.

Notes

Being such an old drink many variation have been created from the original. Some using mashing cherries and oranges, this is described as the old fashioned, Old Fashion.

 I hope everyone enjoys a great weekend!

Sex on the beach combines the smooth silky flavor of peach with the sweetness of Florida orange juice. The cocktail and its name date back to 1987 and Ft. Lauderdale where National Distribution launched a new product, peach schnapps, to the market. In efforts to promote sales, National devised a contest among local establishments to see who could sell the most of the newly promoted liquor. The winning business was to receive $1000, and the bartender who was responsible for the highest sales would receive $100. Ted Pizio who worked at a club named Confetti’s came up with this fruity concoction. When asked what it was called, Pizio announced “Sex on the Beach”, reasoning that the thousands of people who visit Ft. Lauderdale for spring break only come for two reasons. The beach, and sex.

This scene from the 1953 movie From Here To Eternity starring Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr was considered very risqué.  Tame by today’s standards, this “sex on the beach” scene was quite controversial. My how times have changed.

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Sex on the Beach

A seemingly innocent cocktail, fruity and refreshing with a powerful punch.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 1 ounce vodka
• 1 ounce peach schnapps
• 2 ounces orange juice
• 2 ounces cranberry juice

Instructions

• Pour all of the ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice cubes.
• Stir well.
• Garnish with orange, kiwi, and a cherry.

Notes

Since the popularity and the recipe for this drink was spread primarily by college students returning home from Ft Lauderdale, there seem to be as many versions of this drink as drunken memories of spring break itself. This one claims to be Pizio’s original recipe from Confetti’s.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Strong and delicate, this cocktail is a mix of beauty, charm and glamor. Different from traditional drinks like the Bellini, Manhattan, or Dry Martini, the cosmopolitan’s light and fruity flavor is widely appreciated for its contemporary flair.

Credited to having been invented in Providence Rhode Island during the 1970’s, it seems that this drink has at least four others laying claim to the recipe and all at about the same time. There does not appear to be any conclusive evidence as to who actually developed this drink, so all parties are currently listed as having done so.

During the 1990’s the drink became extremely popular when the television series Sex in the City frequently featured Sarah Jessica Parker and her friends out on the town drinking the pink concoctions.

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Cosmopolitan

Strong and delicate, this cocktail is a mix of beauty, charm and glamor. Different from traditional drinks like the Bellini, Manhattan, or Dry Martini, the cosmopolitan’s light and fruity flavor is widely appreciated for its contemporary flair.

Course Cocktails

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 2 oz ABSOLUT CITRON
• 1 oz cranberry juice
• 1/4 oz Cointreau
• splash of fresh lime juice
• orange twist

Instructions

• Place the first four ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. 
• Shake well and stain into a martini glass. 
• Garnish with an orange twist.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

A Peruvian grape brandy Pisco, is mixed with lime, egg whites, and ice to create a creamy, frothy, limey drink. This tart yet smooth drink makes the ideal beverage to put the work week behind you and start the weekend off on a fresh note.

The cocktail originated in Peru in the early 1920s,  invented in the capital city of Lima by Victor Vaughn Morris, an American bartender. Morris left the United States in 1903 to work in Cerro de Pasco, a city in central Peru in the mining business. By 1916, he had saved enough money to open a saloon in Lima which he named the Morris Bar. The establishment became a popular spot for the Peruvian Upper class and English-speaking foreigners to frequent. The oldest mentions of the Pisco Sour found come from a 1921 magazine attributing Morris as the inventor.

The Cocktail which had been fashioned after a whiskey sour went through several revisions. In the late 1920’s, when egg whites and bitters were added concluding the development of this drink, and giving us the beverage we know today. The Pisco Sour is the national drink of Peru.

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Pisco Sour

A Peruvian grape brandy Pisco, is mixed with lime, egg whites, and ice to create a creamy, frothy, limey tart yet smooth drink.

Course Cocktails

Cuisine Peruvian

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Pisco
• Juice of 1/2 a lime
• 1 tablespoon egg white or egg white powder
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 1/4 cup crushed ice
• Angostura bitters

Instructions

• In a blender, combine the lime juice with the sugar and mix to dissolve the sugar.
• Add the pisco, egg white and ice and blend until frothy.
• Pour into a sour glass, add a few drops of bitters and serve.

Enjoy this traditional drink with another Peruvian treat Aji sauce for a perfect “way south of the border” happy hour experience.