Tagged: orangecuracao

Curacao / Daily Mix / Grenadine / Rum / Vermouth (sweet & dry)

El Presidente

The EL PRESIDENTE is a Manhattan-style cocktail invented in Cuba around 1919. It remains a cocktail classic, even though Cuba’s Mojito and Daiquiri became more famous. The El Presidente is unlike the other Cuban cocktails in that it doesn’t require...

Bitters / Curacao / Daily Mix / Gin / Throwback Thursday

Pegu Club

The PEGU CLUB embellishes the common gin & lime combo with orange curacao, orange bitters and Angostura bitters. The resulting mix is a full-flavored drink. The Pegu Club is considered a classic “Sour”, and though not as famous as the...

Bitters / Bourbon / Curacao / Daily Mix / Whiskey (blended)

Bittersweet Jack

The BITTERSWEET JACK gives Jack Daniel’s a nice flavor-lift with a dash of apricot liqueur and orange curacao. It’s stirred and served like a Manhattan, but with no vermouth involved it resembles more an Old Fashioned. Requirements: Jack Daniel’s whiskey,...

Curacao / Daily Mix / Rum / Twofer Tuesday

Curacao Rum Runner

One of the best ways to enjoy a good aged rum like the El Dorado 15-year is with a simple mix called the CURACAO RUM RUNNER. If you’ve got orange bitters, it’s just a two-ingredient cocktail with no citrus additions....

Cointreau (orange liqueur) / Daily Mix / Fizzy Friday / Tequila

Lagerita

For some reason, beer & margarita go together well, side by side. So, it’s no surprise that the LAGERITA combines both into one single drink. It’s delicious and refreshing, and perfect to celebrate Cinco de Mayo or to refresh on...

Daily Mix / Rum

Mai Tai (War Time Cocktails, 1935-45)

Smith’s Union Bar, Honolulu Strolling into Honolulu’s Smith’s Union Bar, just a few miles away from the military docks and ports of 1941 Pearl Harbor, one is greeted by a calmer, more open-area bar than the other dark seedy places...