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Cocktails

Any of various short mixed drinks, consisting typically of gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, or brandy, with different admixtures, such as vermouth, fruit juices, sweet flavorings, or even coffee, and usually chilled.

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Cosmopolitan

Beverages; Cocktails

A cosmopolitan, or informally a cosmo, is a cocktail composed of vodka, Cointreau, lime juice and cranberry juice. Its origins are disputed but it is thought to have been developed in the 1970s. The ...

Caipirinha

Beverages; Cocktails

Caipirinha is a cocktail composed of cachaça, half a lime and sugar. It is Brazil’s national cocktail and remains popular there, while gaining in popularity around the world in recent years.

B-52

Beverages; Cocktails

The B-52, or B52, is a multi-layered shot composed of coffee liqueur (Kahlúa), Irish Cream (Baileys Irish Cream) and orange Cognac (Grand Marnier). Due to the different densities of the ingredients, ...

Apple Martini

Beverages; Cocktails

An apple martini, or appletini, is a cocktail composed of vodka, apple schnapps or Calvados and Cointreau.

Tequila Sunrise

Beverages; Cocktails

The Tequila Sunrise is a cocktail composed of tequila, orange juice and grenadine syrup. It was created in the 1930s or 1940s at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and is named for the way it looks after it ...

Singapore Sling

Beverages; Cocktails

The Singapore Sling is a cocktail composed of gin, cherry liqueur, Cointreau, DOM Bénédictine, grenadine, pineapple juice, lemon juice and Angostura bitters. It was developed sometime before 1915 by ...

screwdriver

Beverages; Cocktails

A screwdriver is a cocktail composed of vodka and orange juice. It is also simply referred to as “vodka and orange” and its name stems from American oil workers in Saudi Arabia secretly adding vodka ...

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