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Ice Cubes 1 oz Gin 2 oz Sweet Vermouth .5 oz Luxardo Liqueur 2 drops Orange Bitters 2 drops Old Fashion Bitters To build: Chill your favorite martini glass. Combine all of the ingredients into your shaker, add fresh ice cubes and shake. Double strain the cocktail into your chilled martini glass and enjoy. The Martinez is one of our favorite cocktails. This drink is thought to be the precursor to the modern martini. In yesteryear, consumers liked a little more sweetness in their cockt

Ice Cubes 1 Apple - Sliced 1 Orange - Sliced 1 Lemon - Sliced 5 oz Apple Cider 1/2 Lemon - Juiced 2 oz Vodka 5 oz Licor 43 12 oz Cava In a large pitcher combine ice and fruit. Add the cider, lemon juice, vodka, Licor 43 and chill. Just before serving open a chilled bottle of Cava and carefully pour into the pitcher. Stir and serve immediately. Punch drinks are a staple at DUN gatherings. If you're thinking about the water-downed drinks you would get at the church functions o

2 oz Cuban Rum 1.5 oz Lime juice 6 Mint Leaves 1 tsp Sugar top. Club Soda To Build: Place your lime juice, sugar and mint in the bottom of your glass. Use a muddler to bruise the mint and begin melting the sugar. Add ice and rum to glass and stir to chill. Top with club soda and a fresh sprig of mint and a lime wedge. The Mojito is Cuba’s oldest cocktail. We were lucky enough here at the DUN offices to have a good friend head down to Cuba this year. We to

1 Orion Cooler 2-3 Bags of Ice 1 Stop at the Local Establishment Many Cans of Beer Show season is upon us. No doubt, if you have access to a fly show (or any outdoor show) within 50 miles of you, you've attended or thought of attending the show. We thought it only fair that we share with you our Show Special. Start with one bad ass cooler. Add 2-3 bags of ice to start. Depending on the type of cooler you may need to replenish throughout the trip. Choose your poison. Invite all your fr

2 oz Vodka 1/2 oz Lime juice top Ginger beer Fill your mug with ice, combine the vodka, lime juice and ginger beer. Stir the drink gently to combine the ingredients. Garnish with a sprig of mint and a lime wheel. The Moscow Mule was one of the first vodka cocktails popular in the U.S.. Created in 1941 at the Chatham Hotel in Manhattan, the drink was conceived by three friends enjoying a drink at the hotel bar. The thought was to combine 2 ounces of Smirnoff vodka with Cock ‘n’

1 tsp Sugar 1 Lime wedge 1 oz Calvados (Apple Brandy) 3/4 oz Light Rum Place the lime wedge in a heavy bottomed Old Fashioned Glass and add the sugar. Muddle the lime and sugar together until the sugar dissolves. Fill the glass halffull with ice. Pour the Calvados and Rum, then stir. If you can’t find Calvados, Applejack can be used as a substitute. Enjoy this cocktail and toast to the Consitutional Amendment of your choice. This cocktail is light and refreshing. There

Cocktails don't always have to be on ice and this one is the perfect hot cocktail for those cold snowy winter nights! 2 tbl Tom & Jerry Batter 1 oz Dark Rum 1 oz Brandy 1/4 cup Warm Milk Tom & Jerry Batter: Beat egg whites into stiff peaks and set aside. Next cream egg yolks with sugar 1/4 cup, vanilla 1 teaspoon and rum 1 tablespoon per egg yoke. Then fold the egg whites into the beaten yokes to create a light and fluffy batter. Build the cocktail in a warm coffee cup. Place the batter in t

2 oz Smitty’s Apple Pie 1 oz Triple Sec 1 oz Lemon Juice Build all ingredients in your favorite cocktail shaker, combine with ice and shake until the drink is cold and frothy. Double strain into your favorite glass and enjoy. The classic sidecar gets a modern twist by substituting Smitty’s Apple Pie for the traditional Cognac. Smitty’s combines traditional apple pie spices to a corn whiskey creating an apple pie in a glass. This sweet, but not too sweet, drink is refreshing and comfortin

Created in 1944 by Trader Vic this classic cocktail has been “improved” so much, the modern cocktail only shares one trait with the original - Rum. We use a very dark and a lightly spiced Rum to approximate Vic’s original Rum of choice. Enjoy this cocktail any night of the week. 1 oz Lime Juice 1 oz Dark Rum 1 oz Light Rum 1/2 oz Orange Curacao 1/2 oz Orgeat Syrup Garnish: Mint Sprig To Build: Combine all the ingredients except garnish in a shacker. Shack to chil and double strain into a Doub

2 oz Light Rum 2 oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice 1/2 oz Luxardo Maraschino Garnish: Lime Wheel Shake all ingredients except garnish. Strain into you favorite chilled Coupe or Collins Glass (with shaved ice). Hemingway’s Orginial Daiquiri consisted of 3 3/4 onces of rum with only 6 drops of Luxardo. For those of us with a less alcoholic palate, we dialed back the rum a little and upped the sweatiness. This Daiquiri is our go-to thirst quencher. The fresh fruit juice makes this