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A tall, cool refreshing bourbon cocktail doesn’t have to mean drowning the spirit in cola or adding a splash of water (unless that is your preference of course)!  A few simple additions can put a swing in your step without putting a dent in the bourbon flavor.   Bourbon Sling comes across as a nice and refreshing bourbon sipper.  It sure beats unsweetened tea any day!  Southern Comfort adds just a hint of inspiration to the mix, but could be tweaked just a little more for ‘umph’.  The drink is great ‘as is’ for quenching thirst on a hot day or chilling out after a long day’s work. 

Bourbon Sling

2-1/2 parts Jim Beam Black

1/2 part Southern Comfort

1/2 part Lemon Juice

2 parts Club Soda

Lemon Wedge Garnish

Combine Jim Beam Black, Southern Comfort and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake to blend.  Strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice.  Top with club soda.  Garnish with lemon wedge.

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Bourbon Heritage Month celebrations roll on in style with this peach creation cocktail that not only tastes flavorful, but stays low in calories allowing the party to continue all month long without fear of revelry taking its toll on the girlish figure.  This bourbon twist on the classic Fuzzy Navel comes in at only 107.5 calories yet still packs in full flavor without a hint of diet taste.  The secret is picking up Tropicana Trop 50 in the grocer’s refrigerated section.  It comes in at 50% less calories and sugar than traditional Tropicana Orange Juice yet keeps up the usual taste in many cocktails.  Keeping schnapps to a reasonable add-in level to taste rather than sugaring up a cocktail recipe will add flavor without packing a wallop in calories.  It also allows the flavor of bourbon to still ring true.

Jim’s Peach Fuzz – created by The Intoxicologist

1-1/4 ounce Jim Beam Bourbon

1/4 ounce DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps

1 ounce Tropicana Trop50

Orange Twist Garnish

Combine liquids in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake to blend.  Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.  Garnish with fresh orange twist.  Approximately 107.5 calories

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Despite Passione Nera’s distinctly deep liquorice flavor, the Beam of Passione comes off surprisingly well.  Then again I had never tasted Sambuca of any sort and was prepared for taste sensation that would knock my socks off.  Pairing the Passione Nera with Jim Beam cuts the sweetness considerably and takes the edginess out of the Sambuca.  The orange and lemon fruit flavors add a sense of balance to the cocktail, thus creating something quite enjoyable.  However, this is one time a colored glass would come in handy.  It is a tad murky with its darkish hue.  The orange juice immediately combined with the Passione Nera causing the beautiful purplish black to go grayish green.  Perhaps this cocktail would pair lovely with St. Patrick’s Day or Halloween!

Beam of Passione – created by The Intoxicologist

1 ounce Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey

.5 ounce Luxardo Passione Nera

1.25 ounce Fresh Orange Juice

.75 ounce Fresh Lemon Juice

2 Thick Orange Wedges as Garnish

Build in a double old fashioned glass on the rocks.  Garnish with orange wedges.

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The flavor is of dried fruit with the spirits distinguishing themselves in layers gradually.  In Fig-titious Fashion was inspired by the Muddled Old Fashion, although this cocktail has been a work in progress for some time.  The figs were made on a whim as part of a creative experiment.  St Remy XO happened by sheer luck after sampling the most delicious Brandy Sidecar cocktail at Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse locally the other evening.  With the dark dried fruit and nut flavor of the brandy and the Old Fashioned cocktail still muddling through my brain, the Jim Beam Bourbon infused figs seemed a natural progression.  The juice of the orange plays freshly while fig and dark fruit rolls over the back of the tongue.  Bourbon begins this nice slow dance across the palate in almost a devious sort of way that is unnoticeable at first and then it begins in full.  Even the nut of the St Remy begins to shine.  Since this isn’t quite an Old Fashioned, but based upon the formula it’s rather fictitious, don’t you think? 

In Fig-titious Fashion – created by The Intoxicologist

2-1/2 ounces Jim Beam Bourbon

1/2 ounce St Remy Brandy XO

1/4 ounce Jim Beam Infused Fig Syrup

4 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

1/2 slice fresh Orange

1 Maraschino Cherry

2 Jim Beam Infused Figs

Garnish: 1 each – Orange Slice, Jim Beam Infused Fig, Maraschino Cherry

Muddle orange slice, maraschino cherry, two Jim Beam Infused figs and bitters in the bottom of a mixing glass.  Add Jim Beam Bourbon, St Remy XO and Jim Beam infused fig syrup.  Add ice and shake well.  Strain into an Old Fashioned glass filled half full of ice.  Garnish with skewered orange slice, fig and maraschino cherry.

Jim Beam Infused Figs

1 package dried figs

1 cup Jim Beam Bourbon

Place figs in a glass container.  Pour Jim Beam Bourbon over figs.  Make sure the figs are completely covered.  Add more Jim Beam if desired, since the figs will soak up some of the bourbon.  Seal with lid and refrigerate.  All the figs to soak up the bourbon for a few days before using.  The bourbon will become syrupy and rich with fig and bourbon flavor.

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