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The early English version of the shrub arose from the medicinal cordials of the 15th century. [1] The drink gained popularity among smugglers in the 1680s trying to avoid paying import taxes for goods shipped from mainland Europe: [1] [3] To avoid detection, smugglers would sometimes sink barrels of spirits off-shore to be retrieved later; [1] the addition of fruit flavours aided in masking ...
Made with cognac, cocoa liqueur (crème de cacao), and cream. [2] Americano Made with Campari, sweet vermouth, and for the sparkling version, club soda and garnished with a slice of lemon. [3] Angel face Made with gin, apricot brandy and calvados in equal amounts. [4] Aviation Made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette, and lemon ...
The June bug or June Bug Annihilator is a tropical cocktail. [1]A June Bug cocktail served at a beachside resort, albeit not in a Collins glass. It consists of a mixture of Midori melon liqueur as base liquor, with modifiers of coconut rum (such as Malibu), Banana liqueur, pineapple juice, and sweet & sour.
Used for liqueurs or cordials, [2] hence also called a "cordial glass" or "liqueur glass". A bar measure that is half of a jigger , used to measure a cordial. A pony traditionally held 1 imp fl oz (28 ml), and is attached to the bottom of a jigger measure, which held 2 imp fl oz (57 ml).
A B-52 is an example of a popular layered drink, with Grand Marnier floating atop Irish cream over a base of coffee liqueur. A layered (or "stacked") drink, sometimes called a pousse-café, is a kind of cocktail in which the slightly different densities of various liqueurs are used to create an array of colored layers, typically two to seven.
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 oldest known references to the Hurricane cocktail date the drink's creation back to at least 1938. The best representation of the original recipe and look of the Hurricane drink is depicted in the 1938 produced/1939 released Warner Bros. film Naughty But Nice, where the original Hurricane drink appears to be simply lemonade or lemon juice with the addition of a generous portion of rum with ...
Dubonnet is commonly mixed with lemonade or bitter lemon, and forms part of many cocktails. Reputedly Dubonnet was a favourite beverage of: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who liked gin and Dubonnet: 30% gin, 70% Dubonnet with a slice of lemon under the ice. She once noted before a trip, "I think that I will take two small bottles of Dubonnet ...