Category: World Wednesday

Daily Mix / Gin / Grenadine / World Wednesday

Pink Lady

There’s nothing really gender-specific about the PINK LADY. It’s pretty and pink, yes, and similar to a Clover Club. But, it’s stronger with a combination London dry gin and applejack brandy. Pomegranate-based grenadine is used to offset the tartness of...

Daily Mix / Rum / World Wednesday

Mojito

The MOJITO is an iconic Cuban cocktail that emerged from a Havana bar around 1910. It’s a bartender’s least favorite concoction to make in a bar, not because it requires many types of liquor, but because it’s time-consuming to prepare...

Cachaca / Daily Mix / World Wednesday

Caipirinha

Cachaca is to Brazil’s CAIPIRINHA, as Tequila is to Mexico’s Margarita; though the Caipirinha is less Americanized as the Margarita. The Caipirinha’s basic recipe is very simple but requires that you muddle sugar onto crushed quarters of lime before adding...

Daily Mix / Rum / World Wednesday

Malibu Rum w/ Coconut Liqueur

MALIBU RUM (original) is a coconut-flavored liqueur with some rum in it. Although it’s less than the 80 proof — which disqualifies it from being classified as a rum — it’s made from sugarcane molasses, like all rum, and flavored...

Cachaca / Daily Mix / World Wednesday

Caipirinha

Cachaca is to Brazil’s CAIPIRINHA, as Tequila is to Mexico’s Margarita; though the Caipirinha is less Americanized as the Margarita. The Caipirinha’s basic recipe is very simple but requires that you muddle sugar onto crushed quarters of lime before adding...

Daily Mix / Demerara / Rum / World Wednesday

Classic Daiquiri

The DAIQUIRI has been given a bad rap since its Cuban inception 130 years ago. While it started as the granddad of rum cocktails, it’s associated more commonly with adult strawberry slushies on the back of restaurant menus and over-indulgent...

Daily Mix / Tequila / World Wednesday

Margarita (Classic)

The drink of choice for writer Jack Kerouac and singer Jimmy Buffet, the MARGARITA is one of the most festive, popular drinks. It first appeared in Mexico and then southern California in the 1930’s and ’40’s and since then has...