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    Maple Bacon Bloody Mary

    ByDOTW Staff

    I love Bloody Marys! Since it’s tomato season, now is the perfect time to make this cocktail with fresh tomatoes. It’s easier than you think.

    This variation includes bacon and maple syrup, but it’s not just for brunch! Bacon makes such a tasty garnish and the maple syrup perks up the natural sweetness of the fresh tomatoes.

    As far as garnishes go, the Bloody Mary is the most fun. Why stop with bacon? Add the … Read more

  • Labor Day Lemonade

    Ingredients:
    1 1/4 oz Ketel One Vodka
    1/4 oz Green Chartreuse
    3/4 oz fresh grapefruit juice
    3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
    Dash of grapefruit bitters

    Directions:
    Pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake well. Strain into a rocks glass. Garnish with an orange slice.

    Courtesy of Ketel One Vodka.… Read more

  • The Awapuhi – Pau Hana Friday Cocktail

    Here’s our regular Friday cocktail from our friends at Hawaiirama as part of their regular Hawaii cocktail coverage.

    Awapuhi is the Hawaiian word for a native ginger plant and this cocktail definitely has a nice, spicy ginger kick. The taste is fresh, complex and slightly sweet with a mild ginger heat. The Awapuhi is a signature cocktail at the The Red Bar, the boite located at noted Chef Bev Gannon’s Wailea joint, A Pacific View … Read more

  • Pineapple Cilantro H2O

    Pineapple and cilantro is an intriguing flavor combination that really tickled my taste buds. This light and fruity cocktail made with infused water is just the thing for hot August weather. Also, it’s low-calorie and hydrating … with no added sugar!

    I got this recipe from a Tales of the Cocktail presentation on H2O cocktails by Kathy Casey and Tony Abou-Ganim. (You can read more about this water cocktail concept and get another recipe from … Read more

  • Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka Review

    ByRachel Halpren

    Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka comes to us from Wadmalaw Island off the coast of South Carolina and close to Charleston. In homage to its Southern roots, it combines tea grown on a plantation off the coast of Charleston with Louisiana can sugar to produce real sweet tea that is infused into a quadruple distilled vodka.

    The Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka has a lovely light amber color with brown highlights and smells like sweet tea on … Read more

  • Pau Hana Cocktails for the Tin Man Triathlete

    Friday means end of work week and time to kickback. We’re continuing with our drink menus from Tim Rita, mixologist extraordinaire at the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. Here’s a flight of three drinks he created in honor of the Tin Man Triathlon, a lightweight race that is a tongue-in-cheek node to the more prominent Iron Man on the Big Island.  (FYI, this post is from our friends at the Hawaii travel zine Hawaiirama – part … Read more

  • Absolut SF Review

    ByRachel Halpren

    The most recent release in Absolut’s city series, Absolut SF is the fifth city to be released. As proud San Franciscans, we believe that SF should have been first and not fifth in the Absolut City Series but what can you do. San Francisco is a pretty city perched on hills, overlooking some pretty famous bridges and shrouded in fog. San Francisco also has been a city that has paid homage to spirits — from … Read more

  • The Patriot

    Ingredients:
    3 oz Russian Standard Vodka 
    0.5 oz fresh lime juice 
    0.5 oz agave nectar 
    6 cherry tomatoes 
    8 basil leaves 
    Kosher salt 
    Cracked black pepper

    Directions:
    Muddle cherry tomatoes and basil with a dash each of salt and pepper.  Add lime agave and Russian Standard Vodka.  Shake vigorously with ice cubes and double strain into a coupe glass rubbed with lime and rimmed with equal parts salt and black pepper.  Garnish with a basil … Read more

  • Ginger Man

    Ingredients:
    1 ½ parts Effen Vodka
    ¾ parts lime juice
    ¾ parts fresh ginger syrup
    1 dash bitters
    Fever-Tree Ginger Beer
    5 Mint leaves

    Directions:
    Muddle mint in lime and syrup, add to a cocktail shaker with the vodka over ice and shake. Strain and pour into a tall glass with ice and ginger beer. Garnish with mint sprig.

    Created by David Nepove. Courtesy of Effen Vodka.… Read more