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Can a Cocktail Have Too Many Ingredients? Bartenders Weigh In

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If you’ve ever wondered how a famous cocktail’s ingredient list came to be, it’s worth taking a look at when it was made. Almost any pre-Prohibition cocktail’s original specs mostly hover around the three-to-four-ingredient range. Creating a three-ingredient cocktail that makes it into the canon is the dream.”

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Xaviera Cocktail

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It’s sweet, but not too heavy, and the liqueurs work together to give a layered taste that’s perfect for dessert or after dinner. If you usually reach for a dessert coffee or a creamy liqueur, this drink is a fun change of pace. Triple Sec Triple sec is a sweet, orange-flavored liqueur. It’s clear and adds a bright citrus note.

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Rum Tea Toddy Cocktail

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This creamy liqueur brings a gentle richness and sweet-spicy notes that make the drink feel indulgent without being over the top. Rumchata is a cream-based liqueur flavored with cinnamon and vanilla. If you don’t add sugar now and later wish you had, just add simple syrup instead. Next, pour in the dark rum.

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Amaretto Rose Drink Recipe

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In fact, this one’s more like the Amaretto Sour , which uses lemon to cut the sweetness of the liqueur. RELATED: Almond Casa Noble Cocktail Recipe What Is Amaretto? Amaretto is an Italian liqueur that’s famous for its sweet, nutty flavor. The Amaretto Rose just uses lime juice instead.

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From the Alabama Slammer to the White Russian: Were Any Good Cocktails Created in the ’70s?

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It was the height of the jet age as well, and tiki culture was soaring. Of course, what we’ve also learned from the era of the extra Martini, unicorn latte, and increasingly absurdist Bloody Mary is that there are also times in history when we drinkers explicitly reject serious cocktail culture.

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The Bushwacker: The Ultimate Florida Man Cocktail

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But the area has its own cocktail culture too, and that culture reflects the region’s sensibility: It’s tropically inclined and tiki-influenced, but sillier, more absurd, more ridiculous, more over-the-top.

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How St-Germain Went From Bartender’s Ketchup to Spritz Sensation

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Launched in the first few years of the cocktail renaissance, St-Germain was the worlds first commercial elderflower liqueur and one of the first high-quality, artisan liqueurs to hit the market in decades. Bartenders at pioneering cocktail establishments like NYCs Please Dont Tell and Death & Co. in the East Village.

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