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A caffeine and alcohol bust, don’t ask for more just enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz (56.7 grams) vodka
• 3/4 oz (113.4 grams) Kahlua coffee liqueur
• 1/4 oz (113.4 grams) white creme de cacao
• 1 oz (28.35 grams) cold espresso

Preparation:

Pour Ingredients in to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain in to a martini glass. Decorate with coffee beans if desired.

A Long Island Iced Tea is a highball made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, tequila, and rum. A popular version mixes equal parts vodka, gin, tequila, rum and triple sec with 1 1/2 parts sour mix and a splash of cola. Most variants use equal parts of the main liquors but include a smaller amount of triple sec (or other orange-flavored liquor). Close variants often replace the sour mix with sweet and sour mix or with lemon juice, the cola with actual iced tea, or add white creme de menthe; however, most variants do not include any tea, despite the name of the drink. Some restaurants substitute brandy for the tequila. A true long island as it was originally made did not have tequila.

The drink has a much higher alcohol concentration (≈28%) than most highballs because of the proportionally small amount of mixer. Long islands can be ordered “extra long” which signals the bartender to even further increase the alcohol to mixer ratio.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Vodka
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Tequila
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) White Rum
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Triple Sec
• 1.5 cl (0.51 fluid onces) (three parts) Gin
• 2.5 cl (0.85 fluid onces) (five parts) Lemon juice
• 3.0 cl (1.01 fluid onces) (six parts) Gomme Syrup
• Splash of Coke

Preparation:

• Mix ingredients in glass over ice, stir, garnish and serve.

The Rickey is a category of mixed drinks closely resembling a highball made from a base spirit, half of a lime squeezed and dropped in the glass, and carbonated water. Little or no sugar is added to the Rickey. Originally created with bourbon whiskey in Washington, D.C. at Shoomaker’s bar by bartender George A. Williamson in the 1880’s, purportedly in collaboration with Democratic lobbyist, Colonel Joe Rickey, it became a worldwide sensation when mixed with gin a decade later .

Since 2008 the Rickey has enjoyed a resurgence with the rise revival of classic cocktails and a group of Washington D.C.-based bartenders, known as the DC Craft Bartenders Guild establishing July as Rickey month .

Ingredients:

• 2oz (56.7 grams) bourbon, rye whiskey, or gin
• Half of a lime squeezed and dropped in the glass
• Sparkling Mineral Water

Preparation:

• Combine spirit, lime and shell in a highball or wine glass. Add ice, stir and then add sparkling mineral water.

Is a prohibition era cocktail originally developed at the Detroit Athletic Club. While the drink eventually fell out of use, it has recently enjoyed renewed popularity after being rediscovered as a cult hit in the Seattle area by Murray Stenson, a bartender at the Zig Zag Café.

Ingredients:

• One part gin
• One part lime juice
• One part Chartreuse
• One part maraschino liqueur

Preparation:

• Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass

Is an alcoholic drink made with gin and bitters, as enjoyed in colonial Malaya. The name means “bitter gin” in Malay.

The recipe, according to the food and beverage service of the Raffles Hotel, is 1½ ounces of gin and ½ ounce of Angostura bitters. At least one book on drinks from the 1930s describes it as identical to a pink gin, which would imply considerably less bitters.

Referenced often by the writer W. Somerset Maugham. For example his short story, “P. & O.” (Copyright 1926), Maugham’s character Gallagher, an Irishman who had lived in the Federated Malay States for 25 years, orders the drink. Gin pahit appears in several other Maugham stories, including “Footprints in the Jungle” , “The Book-Bag”, both set in Malaya, and in the novels “The Narrow Corner” (opening line of Chapter xviii), and in “The Outstation” (Two Malay boys,…, came in, one bearing gin pahits,..).

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces of gin
• ½ ounce of Angostura bitters

Preparation:

• Fill a glass with Angostura bitters and gin.