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Empress 1908 Gin. When acid is added to the spirit—whether in the form of citrus juice or quinine-laced tonic water—its color changes to lavender, rosy pink or fuchsia (depending on the mixer ...
B-52 (and related B-50 series cocktails) B & B (brandy and Bénédictine) Baby Guinness; Bacardi cocktail; Backdraft (also a pepperdraft variation) Batida (traditionally made with cachaça) Bay breeze; Bee's knees
The Blue bird is a gin or vodka cocktail with blue curacao. The Savoy Cocktail Book gives the recipe as gin with Angostura bitters and curacao. [1] Another recipe from the Café Royal Cocktail Book (1937) uses vodka instead of gin, adding maraschino liquor, and fresh lemon juice. The original gin-based cocktail was reimagined by Bill Tarling ...
The negative reputation of gin survives in the English language in terms like gin mills or the American phrase gin joints to describe disreputable bars, or gin-soaked to refer to drunks. The epithet mother's ruin is a common British name for gin, the origin of which is debated. [17]
In cocktail shaker, muddle orange peel, cranberries and bitters until cranberries are crushed. Add ice, gin, vanilla syrup and orange juice. Shake well. Fill glass with ice, strain gin mixture ...
Even the drinks appear enchanted. One cocktail I ordered, The Magician, featured butterfly pea tequila that turned from blue to purple as the server poured it into the glass (also containing ...
Published recipes for the cocktails, nearly identical to the modern "Clover Club cocktail" appear as early as 1908. and J. A. Grohusko's Jack's Manual features a drink called "A Clover Leaf." Grohusko writes that it "is said to be popular in the city of brotherly love. Certainly it is decorative for it has a soft orchid color, with a rim of white."
An Aqua Velva is a cocktail made with vodka, gin, lemon-lime, and blue curaçao. The curaçao gives the drink the color of Ice Blue Aqua Velva aftershave, [1] which was advertised with the slogan that it "gives your skin a drink." [2] In the 2007 film Zodiac, the cocktail is depicted as author Robert Graysmith's favored drink. [3]