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CREATE YOUR VERY OWN SIGNATURE HALLOWEEN COCKTAIL

Toy plastic skeletons from Party City

The BONE CHILLER is a reinvented Absolut White Russian. Serve with decorative toy skeletons.

You don’t have to be an ace mixologist to create your very own Halloween-themed, fun signature cocktail. You can even take a standard cocktail recipe, give it a decorative twist, and come up with a fun new name.

With Halloween around the corner, let’s take the crowd-pleasing White Russian drink and give it a new name such as “Ghost Ship,” “The Caspar,” or “The Bone Chiller.”

Decorate the serving tray with plastic toy skeletons you can pick up at Party City or from Oriental Trading. And there is your very own Halloween cocktail.

To Make “THE BONE CHILLER”:
1 ½ ounces Absolut vodka
¾ ounce Kahlua coffee liqueur
¾ ounce cream
Pour your ingredients into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice.
Stir.

Old Fashioned Glass by Libbey

Hot Toddy - A holiday favorite
1 oz whiskey, brandy or rum
1/4 lemon juice
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup boiling water
1 whole clove
1 cinnamon stick

Drizzle the honey into mug, add liquor ingredients and lemon.
Boil the water with the cinnamon stick and clove. Pour into your mug through a strainer.

PERFECT GIN MARTINI

Make the perfect gin martini for your guests:
~2 ounces dry gin
~1 ounce dry vermouth
~Ice
~Lemon or olive garnish

Step One: If you have room let glass chill in the freezer for a few minutes.

Step Two: Combine the gin and vermouth in a shaker, fill it halfway with ice, and stir vigorously until well chilled, about 20 seconds.

Step Three: Strain into the chilled glass. Garnish with olives or a twist of lemon. Run the lemon twist over the rim of the glass.

THE HURRICANE
1 ounce white rum
1 ounce dark rum
3/4 ounce fresh orange juice
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
1/2 ounce housemade grenadine
cherry
orange peel
Shake ingredients with ice. Strain over ice into a chilled old-fashioned glass. Garnish with cherry and orange peel.

THE PERFECT VODKA MARTINI

3 ounces vodka
1 teaspoon French vermouth

Step One: Shake the ingredients well with cracked ice.

Step Two: Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a twist (or an olive).

Bartenders who can create special drinks with themes or names for an event are called Mixologists. A professional bartending school is usually a 40 hour program. Mixologists earn their title by taking an extra four to six hour program.

TO SHAKE OR STIR?

Shake cocktails when they include fruit juices, cream liqueurs, syrups, sour mix, dairy or any other or mixers. Shake & strain into a glass.

Stir cocktails that contain distilled spirits such as gin or whiskey. Stirring is more delicate and is said to not “bruise” the spirit.

THE FESTIVE KIR ROYAL

KIR ROYAL
This is an easy, festive and fun cocktail made with just two ingredients:

3 ounces Champagne
1/4 ounce Crème de Cassis

(Crème de Cassis is a red, sweet, black currant flavored liqueur)

~--Pour the Cassis into a Champagne flute
--Top off with Champagne or other sparkling white wine
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Mixology is generally accepted as a term for a refined and in-depth study of the art and craft of drink mixing. Mixologists are viewed as "bar chefs." Merriam-Webster's dictionary dates mixology to 1948 and defines it as: "the art or skill of preparing mixed drinks." A mixologist is a bartender/bar chef who can blend specialty drinks and create one-of-a-kind beverage concoctions. You can make themed drinks. Study up on recipes. Invent your own concoctions.

Themes for specialty blended drinks can range from team sport-inspired cocktails or a unique drink to honor a wedding couple's toast, to a beverage celebrating an anniversary, birthday, a company's grand opening, a new home, and just about any other event. Mixologists are making drinks that feature ice, fire, beer cocktails, you-name-it. Below is a tool that will guide you through just about any drink recipe. Search by drink name or ingredients (vodka, rum, etc.) You don't have to be a certified Mixologist to create your own drinks with fun names or to honor an occasion or moment in time. You just need a fundamental understanding of the chemistry of liquor and how ingredients react. Practice makes perfect. What event do you want to mark with a signature cocktail? Send us a photo of you with the beverage you created in your home bar!

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APPLE CIDER BRANDY COCKTAIL

2 ounces Brandy (or Bourbon or Rum)

5-6 ounces fresh apple cider

Pour Brandy into glass, add 2-3 ice cubes and top off with fresh apple cider

Stir

Optional: add a twist of orange for visual flair

Develop A Cocktail For A Dear Friend

Looking for the perfect gift to give a friend this holiday season? Why not create a cocktail in their honor and name it after them? They will request it whenever they drop into Your Home Bar. Think of what they love to do? Are they shaken or easily stirred? Cool as ice or straight up? Have fun with you cocktail concoction and they will be honored and feel very loved!

Celebrate!
Take time to appreciate the little things & accomplishments in life.
Celebrate with this citrus mix cocktail of gin and vermouth.
1 1/2 oz. gin
3/4 oz. dry vermouth
3/4 oz. sweet vermouth
Juice of 1/4 orange
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Ice cubes
Tools: shaker, strainer
Glass: cocktail
Garnish: orange wheel
Combine ingredients and shake with ice cubes. Strain into a chilled glass and garnish.

MIX IT UP: OLYMPIC COCKTAILS
An easy way to create an Olympic Cocktail is to purchase Caster Sugar. Mix food coloring in cups to tint the sugar in the colors of the Olympic rings. Put the sugars on flat plates and rim your glasses before you pour in your favorite cocktail. You'll get the Olympic Gold from your guests who flock to Your Home Bar!

This is also a fun way to serve drinks on St. Patrick's Day, 4th of July, Halloween, etc.

Alcohol content of beverages

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