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A cool, copper colored sip amongst tequila every bit its base.  This is about other of my custom creations in addition to since it uses a Mexican spirit I named it afterward the big canyon inward United Mexican States that culture has hardly touched. INGREDIENTS (two drinks) 2 oz - tequila 1 oz - blackberry brandy 1/2 oz - lime juice 1 loving cup - raw cranberry juice splash of pomegranate syrup Pour all ingredients into a shaker 1/2 filled amongst ice.  Shake in addition to strain into 2 chilled cocktail glasses. Cheers! -Darryl

The Gibson is basically the same affair equally a martini. The i big deviation is that instead of an olive inward the glass, you lot piece of occupation a cocktail onion...which is a pearl onion that has been packed inward brine. Watch the Video! INGREDIENTS: (two drinks) 2 oz. gin (or vodka) 1 oz. dry out vermouth 4 cocktail onions Put ii cocktail onions on a toothpick. Place each toothpick inward a cocktail glass. Put the liquid ingredients into a cocktail shaker one-half filled amongst ice. Shake together with strain into the glasses Cheers! 110 Calories per drink. -Darryl

Quandary - you lot bring an unlimited bar tab at a tropical resort. How to you lot brand the nigh of it? Watch the Video! Coming to you lot from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, this week's Cocktail Hour tries to brand a dent inwards it. Watch equally nosotros larn from foyer bar to plaza bar in addition to swim upwards bar to sample the bartenders talents. Trying to non larn equally good lit upwards (yeah, right) spell keeping the sunburn to a minimum, it's all rum, tequila, in addition to vodka past times by the puddle inwards this week's on-location Cocktail Hour video. Enjoy! Cheers, -Darryl

It was hot yesterday, final weekend was the starting fourth dimension weekend of summertime in addition to this weekend was the starting fourth dimension 1 amongst excessive heat. 112 degrees. Watch the Video! Time to abide by something cool. Fortunately, a cool beach is waiting one-half in addition to hr away. We loaded upwards the van in addition to went to the closest one...Seal Beach, only over the Orange County trouble from Long Beach. This is 1 of the smallest beach towns inwards Southern California but it's Main Street in addition to pier pack a pretty expert wallop every 2nd far every 2nd beach fun, shops, restaurants, in addition to bars are concerned. In improver to enjoying the cool, sea air, nosotros went to 1 of our favorite pubs, O'Malley's on Main, in addition to likewise tried a novel one, The Abbey, only upwards the street. Come along on the video every 2nd nosotros produce out picayune mini pub crawl inwards 1 of the area...

Luckily, nosotros got a ride to in addition to from today’s adventure. Good thing…there was no way nosotros were going to halt this i sober… Milwaukee is the metropolis that beer made famous, then how does it stack upward to the self-described “Napa Valley of beer” that nosotros visited final yr (Denver)? Very well, give cheers you. Watch the Video! We start off alongside a standalone catch to Benelux inward the Historic Third Ward. Yes, yous involve to capitalize each word. With a thick bible of beers to lead from, Tim in addition to I cause got a palette of rigid Belgian beers spell Letty goes alongside a bottled sour.  It’s difficult to pick from our palette exactly Letty says the sour, Ichtegem Flemish Red, could cause got to a greater extent than bite. Next, it’s on to the actual crawl. We start at the northward halt of town where the actually cool Milwaukee Riverwalk starts. First upward is the American absinthe made correct hither inward ...

If it's non quite a hurricane, it must travel a tropical storm. Watch the Video! This week's cocktail is a one-off of that neat New Orleans tradition.  Ours uses ingredients on manus simply is all the same rum based.  Here is the recipe... INGREDIENTS (makes 2 drinks) 2 oz. lite rum 1 oz. nighttime rum 1 oz. mango juice 2 oz. sweetness as well as sour mix splash of grenadine 2 oz. orangish soda Mix all ingredients, except for the orangish soda, into a cocktail shaker one-half filled amongst ice. Strain over the rocks into 2 highball or pint spectacles filled amongst ice. Top off each drinking glass amongst the orangish soda. Cheers! Darryl

Quick, short, simple, together with sweet. 1 1/2 ounces each of vodka, cranberry cocktail, together with pineapple juice. Pour all ingredients into an 8 ounce drinking glass filled alongside ice. You're done together with at 1 time convey a 150 calorie cocktail that tastes similar a mai tai. Watch the Video! Cheers! Darryl

With temperatures inward the 90s this week, something cool in addition to overnice would endure to a greater extent than appropriate for today’s Cocktail Hour.  This morning, I position this bottle of Story Chardonnay on H2O ice in addition to then it would endure truly mutual frigidity this afternoon. This item chardonnay is non truly a Story wine.  It is truly made past times Weibel Vineyards inward Lodi, California.  The argue this is done is because of where Story is located in addition to the habits of vino drinkers. Story is located inward Plymouth, California inward Amador County.  This is Gold Country in addition to the Sierra Nevada foothills.  It is real hot in addition to dry out hither inward the summer.  Perfect for growing big, bold, reddish grapes similar zinfandel, barbera, in addition to sangiovese.  Not in addition to then peachy for to a greater extent than fragile white grapes similar chardonnay. Wine drinkers tend ...

I was never a fan, only for those of you lot who liked "Sex and the City," here's your drink. It's really tardily to brand as well as really refreshing on a sunny twenty-four hr menstruum on the deck. Watch the Video! INGREDIENTS - for 2 drinks 2 oz. - Vodka 1 oz. - Triple Sec 4 -5 oz. - Cranberry Cocktail 1/2 lime Squeeze juice out of lime into a 500 ml cocktail shaker, 1/3 amount of ice. Pour inwards vodka as well as triple sec. Fill to operate past times amongst cranberry juice. Shake as well as strain into cocktail glass. Garnish amongst lime wedge as well as cranberries or pomegranate seeds. I'm OK amongst it only roughly guys intend this is a feminine drink. Probably because of the nighttime pinkish colouring as well as the association amongst Carrie Bradshaw as well as friends. For them, produce amount a drinking glass amongst ice, pour it inwards as well as telephone telephone it a vodka as well as cran. Cheers, Darryl

St. Valentine's Day is coming soon. We don't create much most it hither at the Musick chemical compound because vi days afterwards is our twenty-four hr menses for love, our marriage ceremony anniversary.  I create similar romance but similar to celebrate it every day, non only occasionally. Watch the Video! Still, that gives me roughly inspiration for a novel cocktail.  I telephone telephone it My Golden Valentine because of the nighttime rum too amaretto that gives it a golden hue earlier shaking. Here's the recipe: INGREDIENTS (two drinks): 2 oz. nighttime rum 1 oz. amaretto 1/2 oz. lime juice splash of bitters splash of grenadine 3 oz. cranberry cocktail Put all ingredients into a shaker 1/3 amount of ice, milk tremble too strain over H2O ice into highball or pint glasses. Cheers! Darryl

This one's short, simple, sweet, as well as delicious. What we're drinking this calendar week is a variation of the traditional margarita on the rocks, substituting cranberry cocktail for most of the sweetness as well as sour.  We're using Fresh as well as Easy's cranberry cocktail, which has no added colors, then ours comes out pink.  If y'all purpose Ocean Spray's, it comes out redder.  If y'all desire a actually cerise drink, add together a splash of grenadine. Watch the Video! INGREDIENTS - ii drinks 2 1/2 oz. tequila 1 1/2 oz. triple sec juice of 1 modest lime 1 oz. sweetness as well as sour 3 - iv oz. cranberry cocktail Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker one-half filled alongside ice.  Shake as well as strain into margarita or cocktail glasses. We don't tabular array salt the rims on these as well as the finally fit is most 200 calories. Cheers! -Darryl