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Lucky Tart

Posted on March 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

One of the most popular beliefs about Leprechauns is their extreme wealth and hidden gold. Legend has it the only way to acquire a Leprechaun’s gold is by capturing him and his pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. There is a much less complicated method for finding Leprechaun gold: Tequila.

March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day

Lucky Tart! – created by Cheri Loughlin

2 measures Tequila

1 measure Sour Apple Pucker

1/4 measure Melon Liqueur

1 measure Fresh Lime Juice

2 Lime Wheels Garnish

Build in a traditional margarita glass over ice or in a stemmed decorative glass over ice. Float lime wheels on top of cocktail for garnish.

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Tagged Fresh Lime, Melon Liqueur, Sour Apple Pucker, St. Patrick's Day, Tequila

Cocktail Diverse Appletini

Posted on September 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

One would think the Appletini would be a cinch to make. Vodka and a little apple liqueur and voila, one has the perfect cocktail set before them. Not so. This little number is a bit more sophisticated than expected. It can be a breeze for sure, but only if one wants mediocre results. Why settle for average when the exceptional is only a jigger and shake away?

The Appletini is a contemporary cocktail on the International Bartenders Association’s list of official cocktails. It is classified among the family of duo and trio drinks, meaning it is comprised of two or three ingredients. This particular family of drinks is remarkable due to the nature of its flexibility. All of the cocktails begin with only two or three ingredients, making them a fantastic building block for many more drinks to discover and create. This paves the way for duo and trio drinks to go from the ordinary to the extraordinary with only minor changes in dashes or quarter to half ounce additions of bitters, liqueurs and juices. The Appletini is no different. It can go beyond the comic book Green Goblin color to the amazing flavorful cocktail that sends the taste buds zinging with a few minor changes.

Appletini

2 measures Vodka

1 measure Green Apple Liqueur

Apple Slice Garnish

Place liquids in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend and chill. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with apple slice.

The basic recipe is uneventful. It gets the job done. There is indeed apple flavor and the punch of liquor in it, but no layering of flavor to make it interesting. Some adjust the ratios and add apple juice at this point, making this a trio drink.

Appletini

1 measure Vodka

1 measure Green Apple Liqueur

1 measure Apple Juice

Apple Slice Garnish

Place liquids in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend and chill. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with apple slice.

This trio Appletini possibly has a bit of layering to it, but now it seems a wee bit watered down. While using fresh juice in fruit based cocktails is always a plus, it is doubtful most would have fresh apple juice in the refrigerator. Even so, apple juice is still thin and weak. Fresh squeezed will always be better in a cocktail, even if it is not the fresh squeezed juice you may expect.

The answer to the multilayered, abundantly flavored Appletini was created by Dale DeGroff for Natalie Cole and her manager for Rupert Murdoch’s seventieth birthday party. You can read a small quip about it in his book, The Craft of the Cocktail, and acquire an abundance of other essential cocktails you won’t believe you ever went without. Below is DeGroff’s version of the indispensable Appletini with fresh lemon juice.

Sour Apple Martini – DaleDeGroff from The Craft of the Cocktail

2 measures Citrus Vodka

1/2 measure Sour Apple Pucker

1/2 measure Premium Orange Liqueur

3/4 measure Lemon Juice

Granny Smith Apple Slice Garnish

Place liquids in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend and chill. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with apple slice

The Waterfront Ale House in New York City has a specialty Apple Martini using their own infused vodka with pear, apples, cloves and cinnamon. You will find the recipe for this Apple Martini in The Craft of the Cocktailas well. It is definitely a must see!

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Tagged Apple Juice, Appletini, Dale DeGroff, Fresh Lemon, Green Apple Liqueur, Premium Orange Liqueur, Sour Apple Pucker, Vodka

Three-O Bubble Vodka Bubbles Over with Cocktails

Posted on February 6, 2010 | Leave a comment

Three Olives Bubble Vodka practically smacks with delighted fun entertainment. The aroma is that of fruity bubble gum youth. Consumers chill it and shoot it, mix it with cream soda or add splashes of fruit juice to vamp it up to cocktail worthy status. For more delicious treats and delectable goodies wrapped in a cocktail glass try a few Three-O Bubble Vodka shots and cocktail recipes served Intoxicologist style. The cocktails and shots found below were whipped up during the course of the Three-O Bubble review along with the Blowing Bubbles cocktail.

Blueberry Bubble – created by Cheri Loughlin

1-1/2 ounce Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1/2 ounce Hiram Walker Blueberry Passion Schnapps

1/4 ounce Homemade Grenadine

1-1/2 ounce Club Soda

Garnish: Blueberries Skewered

Combine Three-O Bubble Vodka, Blueberry Passion Schnapps and Grenadine in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to chill. Strain into a cocktail glass. Top with 1-1/2 ounce Club Soda. Garnish with skewered blueberries.

Blueberry Bubble is quite bubbly delicious with blueberry flavor and candy-like appeal. It is sweet of course, but this parties to the beat of a carefree crowd. Fun, fruity, sporting good fun. Makes a great Girl’s Night Out cocktail with it’s beautiful hue and girlishly fun appeal.

Boo-Berry Bubble – created by Cheri Loughlin

1-1/2 ounce Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1/2 ounce Hiram Walker Blueberry Passion Schnapps

1/4 ounce Homemade Grenadine

3 ounces Club Soda

1/8 ounce Blue Curacao

Garnish: Blueberries

Place layer of ice in bottom of glass. Add three or four blueberries. Continue layering process until glass is full of layered ice and blueberries. Add liquids to glass in order given leaving the Blue Curacao as last ingredient to pour as the ‘float’ for the ‘Boo-Berry’ effect.

The look of the Boo-Berry Bubble drink reminds me of the Boo-Berry cereal from the days of childhood with the monster on the cereal box. It’s whimsical, playful, fun; but don’t choke on the blueberries! The Boo-Berry Bubble drink recipe is perfect for Halloween themed drink recipes with the name, but anytime with ease of preparation and flavor. It is merely a slight variation on the Blueberry Bubble drink recipe above; however this one goes long for lasting refreshment since it is built in a tall glass.

Pink Peach Bubble – created by Cheri Loughlin

1-1/2 ounce Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1/2 ounce DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps

1-1/2 ounce Cranberry Juice

1 ounce Club Soda

Combine first three ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to chill. Strain into cocktail glass. Top with 1 ounce Club Soda.

Great combination aroma of bubbly peach! Pink Peach Bubble contains great Bubble flavor with a touch of peach in the background rounding out any hard edges cranberry juice can sometimes leave behind. Beautiful pink color is perfect for Pink themed parties, Girl’s Night Out and Bachelorette parties.

Bubble Delicious – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 ounce Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1-1/2 ounce Cranberry Juice

2 ounces A&W Cream Soda

Garnish: Maraschino Cherries

Build in a highball glass over ice. Garnish with maraschino cherries.

Remember the sugary syrup rush of those first few chews of delicious bubble gum before the flavor died away? Bubble Delicious tastes exactly like the first fifteen seconds of fresh bubble gum. This time the flavor lasts through the entire drink. That might roll off a little too sweet for some, but there is a reason there are so many sweet drinks served from cocktail menus (and bubble gum for that matter).

Bubble Blow Pop Shots – created by Cheri Loughlin

Directions: Combine liquids in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to chill. Strain into a shot glass. Shoot it or sip it, but taste it just the same. These treats will take you back to the days of childhood candy, but the result is all grown up. – More Shots in categories and tagged as Shot-tails.

Jolly Apple Bubble Shot – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1 part DeKuyper Sour Apple Pucker

Tastes like an apple flavored Jolly Rancher without the sour.

Mad Melon Bubble Gum Shot – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1 part DeKuyper Mad Melon

A bit like watermelon bubble gum. It makes the mouth water.

Grape Bubble Burst – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1 part Hiram Walker Blueberry Passion Schnapps

Leans a little toward grape flavor with a little edgy kick.

Smart Bubble Shot – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Three Olives Bubble Vodka

1 part Hiram Walker Pomegranate Schnapps

Smarties candies flavor with small hint of tart at the finish.

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Tagged Blue Curacao, Blueberry Bubble, Blueberry Schnapps, Boo-Berry Bubble, Breast Cancer Awareness, Bubble Blow Pop Shots, Bubble Delicious, Club Soda, Cranberry Juice, Cream Soda, Grenadine, Peach Schnapps, Pink Drinks, Pink Peach Bubble, Pomegranate Schnapps, Shot-tails, Sour Apple Pucker, Three Olives Vodka, Three-O Bubble Vodka, Vodka, Watermelon Schnapps

Apple of My Eye Cocktails

Posted on November 24, 2009 | Leave a comment

There are vague memories in childhood of being in an orchard gathering fresh apples with my mother and siblings for baked goodies. I could romanticize it and say it was all fun and games with tree climbing, hide and seek and bushels of fun, but in all honesty I can’t remember. To this day the real memory is the beauty of rows upon rows of trees with beautiful apples ripe for the plucking. The part of the country I spent time very young also has gorgeous foliage during the fall. Ripe, crisp apples remind me of fall no matter the time of year. They are best crisp, lightly sweet with lingering tart in the finish. Plucked Apple balances an apple’s crispness with fresh plucked feel.

Plucked Apple – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Apple Rum

1/2 part Sour Apple Pucker

1-1/2 Cranberry Juice

Build in an Old Fashioned glass over fresh ice. Tastes like a fresh granny smith apple. Crisp, tart, clean flavor with sweetness balanced by the tart.

The little dessert in a glass without all the baked crust trappings – that is the goodness within the Apple Tartlet cocktail. No need to peel and slice apples, roll out fresh pie crust or sprinkle cinnamon and sugar all over the floor of the kitchen. Of course, one could always whip up an Apple Tartlet cocktail and then begin the process of baking. Pie crust cookies are indeed ‘the bomb’ with their crisp layers of flaky deliciousness. Personally I’d go for dessert cocktail and pie crust cookies, saving the apples for garnish another day.

Apple Tartlet – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Berentzen ApfelKorn Schnapps

1/2 part Amaretto

1/4 part Goldschlager Cinnamon Schnapps

1/2 part Irish Cream

1 part Half & Half

Combine all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake thoroughly to blend and chill. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Buttered Apple is great for going the long haul. This easy sipper builds nicely over ice using widely available spirits. Sit back and relax while watching movies, football or playing games with family. Making memories over the Thanksgiving holiday time is more than gathering for turkey dinner and Black Friday shop ‘til you drop. Bring out decks of cards and poker chips, start up a game of Monopoly or Risk, or begin flipping through old photo albums while classic black and white movies play in the background. Enjoy the moment without rushing.

Buttered Apple – created by Cheri Loughlin

1 part Apple Rum