Tag: Recipe
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Review – The Punch Bowl
Sweet, sour, spice, water and alcohol. Those are the five, seemingly simple, components of every good punch. But, I’ll ask you this. Have you ever tried to come up with your own punch? Was it good? What about great? I’m willing to bet, coming from past experience, that it wasn’t amazing. If you’re lucky it…
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Sea Spray Kiss
I’m not going to make every recipe from Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book, I promise. Just this last one, the Sea Spray Kiss. Of the cocktails we tried from the book it’s a toss up for me which is my favorite, the Stout Float or the Sea Spray Kiss. Both have their merits and, really, shouldn’t…
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Dancing with the Devil
“You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?” No? Yeah, me either. I prefer to sin indirectly through the consumption of spirituous liquors, sometimes in excess. Speaking of drinking, here’s another cocktail from Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book, Dancing with the Devil. This drink sounds promising right from the start. Tequila, Chambord, ginger beer?…
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Stout Float
From the “What a Guy Wants” chapter of Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book comes a delicious variation on the classic float, the Stout Float. This drink is dead simple to make and very tasty.  Scoop ice cream, add stout, drink, repeat. Since I was going to be sampling this drink in Grand Lake, CO it only…
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Review – Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book
Let’s get something very clear. I’m not a reader of Cosmo. But, that said, I did have a subscription to Maxim for a couple years and, let’s face it, you remove the gender slant and they’re really the same thing. So, when my review copy of Cosmo’s Official Cocktail Book arrived I tore into it…