Colorado Cooler

© Tina Rupp

Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey is a distinctive small-batch whiskey made in Denver from 100 percent malted barley. The flavor is malty and slightly vanilla-y.

Ingredients:

1 ounce chilled Club Soda
3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
3/4 ounce Simple Syrup
2 ounces Malt Whiskey
(preferably Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey)
Ice
2 dashes of celery bitters (optional)
4 cherries (preferably Rainier, pitted
plus 1 cherry for garnish



In a cocktail shaker, muddle the 4 pitted cherries, Add ice and all of the remaining ingredients except the club soda and garnish.  Shake well.  Strain into an ice-filled Collins glass, stir in the club soda and garnish with a cherry.

Limoncello Collins

Tina Rupp

Ingredients

16 ounces limoncello (lemon-flavored liqueur)
12 ounces Gin
8 ounces fresh lemon juice
24-paper thin lemon slices
Ice
16 ounces chilled club soda
8 mint sprigs

In a pitcher, combine the limoncello, gin and lemon juice.  Cover and refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours.  Press 3 thin lemon slices against the inside of each of 8 Collins glasses.  Add ice to the glasses.  Stir the limoncello mixture and pour it into the glasses.  Stir 2 ounces of club soda into each drink and garnish with a mint sprig.

Hatfields, Los Angeles

The Collins was most likely named after 19th-century bartender John Collins of London's Limmer's Hote.  The Tom Collins was originally made with Old Tom, a sweet style of gin that's extremely hard to find today.

Purple Haze #3

1/2 oz. Rum
1/2 oz. Vodka
1/2 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Chambord Raspberry Liqueur
1 oz. Sweet and Sour mix
7-Up Soda

Add liquors to an ice filled margarita glass.  Add sour mix, top with 7-Up, and serve.

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I omitted the Tequila.

White Rabbit

Ingredients:

3 oz. Stoli Vanilla Vodka
3 oz. Vanilla Liqueur
1 oz. Milk
Ice

Directions:

Fill a glass with ice, add in the vodka, liqueur and milk.  Shake and serve.



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Peach Fuzzies

Howard L. Puckett
 

Serve these festive peach fuzzies at an early afternoon barbecue.  Frozen pink lemonade concentrate gives the drink its color and its sweet-tart flavor base.  Add vodka, water and ripe peaches for extra sweetness, then process with crushed ice.
Makes 10 cups.

Ingredients

1 (12-ounce) can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, slightly thawed and divided.
3/4 cup vodka, divided
3/4 cup water, divided
4 cups peeled and cubed fresh, ripe peaches (about 6 large), divided
Crushed ice


Preparation

Process half quantities of first 4 ingredients in a blender until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides.  Fill blender with ice to 5-cup level, and process until smooth.  Pour into a  pitcher.  Repeat procedure with remaining ingredients.  Garnish, if desired.

Ashley Strickland,
Coastal Living

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