TOM COLLINS

Serve In A Collins Glass

The Tom Collins refreshing gin sour that is an excellent sipper for hot summer days. There are a two common ways to make this drink. The one below uses simple syrup and lemon while the other replaces those two ingredients with the convenience of sour mix.

• 1 1/2 oz gin
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz sugar syrup
• club soda
• maraschino cherry for garnish
• lemon slice for garnish

Pour the gin, lemon juice, and sugar syrup in a collins glass with ice cubes. Stir thoroughly. Top with club soda. Garnish with the cherry and orange slice.

ELECTRIC ICE TEA

Serve In A Collins Glass

The Electric Iced Tea is a simple variation of the Long Island Iced Tea. In this drink the triple sec is replaced with the "electrifying" hue of blue curacao – both orange liqueurs so only the color changes – and the cola falls aside to a lighter lemon-lime soda. This is a terrific drink that is a nice twist and is great for a party because most of us must admit there’s something special about a blue drink.

• 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz light rum
• 1/2 oz tequila
• 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 1 oz sour mix
• splash of lemon-lime soda

Build the ingredients in a collins glass. Stir.

MIAMI ICE TEA

Serve In A Collins Glass

From the Long Island Iced Tea we travel down the coast for a Miami Iced Tea and it has a few more changes than some of the other "Iced Teas." In this fruitier version the tequila takes a hike and peach schnapps is brought in, cranberry juice is added (as in the Long Beach Tea) and cola’s out and lemon-lime soda is in. The Miami Iced Tea is a fantastic drink, especially for hot summer days.

• 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz light rum
• 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz peach schnapps
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 1 oz sour mix
• 1 oz cranberry juice
• splash of lemon-lime soda

Build the ingredients in a collins glass.

LONG ISLAND ICE TEA

Serve In A Colins Glass

This is a classic mixed drink that should be in everyone's drink repertoire. An easy way to remember how to make a Long Island is to think of a small shot of 5 white spirits (gin, tequila, light rum, vodka, triple sec), shot of sour mix, fill with cola. It's really easy if you break it down, but it is also just as easy to drink too many. The 1970's credit for this potent and alluring concoction could go to Robert Bott, a bartender from Long Island, or to Charles Bishop, a 1930's moonshiner in (then dry) Tennessee. Or was it T.G.I. Friday's?

• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 1/2 oz light rum
• 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz tequila
• 1 oz sour mix
• cola
• lemon wedge for garnish

Pour the spirits and sour mix into a collins glass with ice. Stir well or shake. Top the glass off with cola. Garnish with the lemon wedge.

TANQARITA

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1 1/2 oz. Tanqueray Gin
• 3 oz. Margarita Mix
• 1 Splash Triple Sec

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

SAKETINI

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 2 1/2 oz. Gin
• 1 1/2 tsp. Sake
• 1 Cocktail Olive

In a mixing glass half-filled with ice cubes, combine gin or vodka with sake. Stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an olive.

PINK LADY

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1 1/2 oz. Gin
• 1 tsp. Grenadine
• 1 tsp. Light Cream
• 1 Egg White

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

MONKEY GLAND

Serve in an Old Fashioned Glass

• 1 1/2 oz. Gin
• 1 Orange Juice
• Benedictine
• Grenadine

Stir with ice in a mixing glass. Strain into an old fashioned glass over plenty of ice.

NORMANDY COCKTAIL

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1.5 oz. Gin
• 0.75 oz. Applejack
• 0.5 oz. Brandy
• dashes Lemon Juice

Shake ingredients with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

WOODSTOCK

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1 1/2 oz. Gin
• 1 1/2 tsp. Maple Simple Syrup
• 1 oz. Lemon Juice
• 1 dash Orange Bitters

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

EROTICA

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1 oz. Gin
• 4 oz. Champagne
• 0.25 oz. Lemon Juice
• 2 tsp. Sugar

Fill a collins glass almost full of ice cubes. Pour ingredients into the glass. Stir well. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.

DOUBLE INTENTION

Serve in a Highball Glass

• 1/2 oz. Gin
• 1/2 oz. Vodka
• 1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
• 1/2 oz. Creme de Cacao
• 1/2 oz. Midori Melon Liqueur
• 4 oz. Half 'n Half
• 1/4 oz. Grenadine

Blend all the ingredients apart from the Grenadine. Pour grenadine on top of the drink when it's in the glass.

ADAM AND EVE

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1 oz. Brandy
• 1 oz. Gin
• 1 oz. Forbidden Fruit
• 1 dash Lemon Juice

Combine and shake ingredients well with cracked ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.

ALABAMA SLAMMER

Serve in a Highball Glass

• 1 oz. Southern Comfort
• 1 oz. Amaretto
• 1/2 oz. Sloe Gin
• 1 dash of Lemon Juice
• Ice

Pour ingredients, except lemon juice, over ice in a highball glass. Stir. Add a dash of lemon juice.

THE 57 CHEVY

Serve in a Cocktail Glass

• 1 shot Southern Comfort
• 1 shot Gin
• 1 shot Vodka
• Orange Juice
• Pineapple Juice
• Grenadine

Put Southern Comfort, gin and vodka in a glass. Fill with orange juice and pineapple juice, then top with grenadine. Don't stir.