If you enjoy entertaining guests and serving liquor, you will want some different and impressive-looking drinks on your menu. Here ae a few simple, easy tips to make fancy drinks at home.
Here are some drinks I have come up with, that have been a hit at parties.

If you want to create a two-tone drink, here's how.... pour the bottom half into the glass, then trickle the topper along the side of the glass. Practice Makes Perfect
Let's try it-

• Blue Bull Shots

1 oz. Red Bull (bottom)
1 oz. Blue Vodka (I use Georgi)
Double-shot (2 oz) glasses.
Make sure to keep the two halves of the drink seperate in the glass... otherwise, you get a swampy green color

• Pina Colada Shots

1 oz Coconut Rum (I use Malibu or Cruzan)
1 oz. pineapple juice (bottom)
Double-shot glasses

• Red Dragon Shots (this is inspired by an Asian influences)

1 oz. Vodka
1 oz Pomegranite juice (bottom)
2 oz shot glasses

You can also make two-tone full-sized drinks... follow the same 'side-trickle' technique from above. Remember, when it says 'mix', that must be done seperately from your finished product.
Let's Try It....

• Americana

1 oz. Raspberry Rum (I use Bacardi Razz or Cruzan)
2 oz Juicy Juice Mixed Berry juice
1 oz Lemon Vodka (I use Absolut Citron)
2 oz Blue Soda (You want a raspberry flavor, Jones Soda makes this, so do supermarkets)
Mix: the rum and Juicy Juice in a seperate measuring bowl or cup, then pour into the bottom of a glass
Mix: the vodka and blue soda in a completely seperate mixing bowl or cup from the first one, then trickle down the side of the glass as the topper.

• Winter Chill

1 oz blue vodka
2 oz. blue soda
1 oz vodka
2 oz. lemon-lime soda (like 7up)
Mix: blue soda and blue vodka, this is your bottom
Mix: clear vodka and lemon-lime soda, this is your topper.

• Summer Flame

1 oz tequila gold (I use Jose Cuervo)
2 oz orange energy drink (like NOS, Tropical Fantasy Orange, or X Orange)
1 oz. vodka
2 oz berry-flavored energy drink(like Tropical Fantasy, X Cranberry)
Mix: tequila and orange drink together, as your bottom
Mix: vodka and berry drink as your topper.


Sometimes, drinks come with a colored-sugar rim. You can use the colored sugar from the baking aisle of your supermarket, or pour sugar into a ziplock bag and add one drop of food color at a time, seal the bag and shake it. Repeat until you get the color intensity you want.
To rim sugar onto a glass, fill a wide, flat bowl (like a tupperware) with about a quarter inch of water.
shake sugar onto a paper plate.
turn empty glass upside-down into bowl, then lift straight up (still upside down)
put glass with wet rim onto paper plate of sugar.
Allow to dry a moment before setting right side up, and be careful pouring your liquor into the glass.

Let's try it...

• Pink Lady MelonAde

Pink sugar for rim of glass
1 oz. melon rum (Cruzan or Bacardi)
1 oz lemon vodka (Absolut Citron)
3 oz pink lemonade (I use Newman's Own, but there are many out there)
slice of lemon (cut round, thin slices)
Mix: all liquids in a seperate container and pour into a pink-rimmed martini glass. float lemon slice on top.

• Pineapple Punch Drunk

Yellow Sugar for rim of glass
1/2 oz mango rum
1/2 oz orange rum
1/2 oz raspberry rum
1/2 oz pineapple rum (Cruzan makes all of these, so does Bacardi)
2 oz. Hawaiian Punch (regular red flavored)
1 oz. pineapple juice
can of chunk pineapple in it's own juice, drained (juice used in drink), chunk pineapple cut halfway up the center with a knife.
Mix: All liquids in a seperate container and pour into a yellow rimmed glass. Put pineapple on rim of glass for garnish.

You can also color Kosher (coarse) salt the same way you color sugar.

• Tequila Shots

rim highball glass with yellow salt
1 and 1/2 oz of tequila gold
1 slice of lemon, on rim of glass

Here's a drink that combines another technique-

• Margarita shots

Green salt for glass rim
1 and 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz water
1 oz premade Margarita mix
Mix: water and margarita mix in another cup. this is your bottom, and add to a salt-rimmed highball glass.
carefully trickle shot(s) of tequila over the side.

Don't be intimidated by creating your own attractive and tasty alcoholic beverages. When entertaining, it is great to see guests really appreciate a drink that you have made.
This is only the first of a series of alcoholic drinks I have created and presentations I have discovered, which I will be posting on eBay here.

Remember, always drink responsibly. Designate a driver or take a taxi. These recipes are only intended for those age 21 and older to serve to other adults over 21 in their own homes and as law allows.
 
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