As the sun inches its way out from behind the clouds and to the vast, open sky, it’s time to start sipping (alcoholic beverages) in anticipation of warm weather. There is something very light and friendly about the spring season, and the following three cocktail recipes play on that vibe. They’re as pretty as they are delicious and will entertain a crowd’s, or just your own, palate. Enjoy!

3 Spring-Inspired Cocktail Recipes

1. Matcha Mint Julep

Serves two

As if matcha wasn’t already everywhere, this Mint Julep sticks to the green theme with a dose of caffeine.

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons matcha powder
• ¾ cup water
• Handful fresh mint leaves
• 2 tablespoons cane sugar
• Juice of two limes
• ½ cup bourbon whiskey
• Ice
• Fresh mint leaves for garnish

Directions

Place the matcha in a small bowl and slowly whisk in the water until the matcha becomes a smooth paste. Stir in the remaining water.

In a pitcher or jar, muddle the mint leaves into the sugar until the sugar is dissolved and the mint leaves are bruised. Stir in the lime juice, whiskey, and matcha water. Pour the matcha mint julep through a sieve and serve in two glasses filled with ice. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.

2. Blood Orange Margarita

Serves one

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup freshly-squeezed blood orange juice
• Juice of one lime
• 1 ounce triple sec
• 2 ounces silver tequila
• Kosher salt
• 1 blood orange wedge
• Ice

Directions

Mix the blood orange juice, lime juice, triple sec, and tequila together in jar and set in the refrigerator to cool. Meanwhile, moisten the outer rim of a martini glass with the blood orange wedge and dip the rim into the salt to lightly coat it. Add the ice to the jar and then strain the margarita into the glass.

3. Rose Water Cointreau Fizz

Serves one

This fizz has the ethereal delicateness reminiscent of the façade of a porcelain doll. It has a touch of rose and strawberry, with a citrus twist.

Ingredients

• 30 ml Cointreau
• 1 teaspoon rose water
• 2 teaspoons strawberry juice
• Juice of half of a lime
• Soda water
• Ice

Directions

Fill a glass with ice and add the Cointreau, rose water, strawberry juice and lime juice. Mix with a spoon and then top the drink off with soda water.

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Thanksgiving is on the way, and we all know what that means: it’s time to fend off overbearing relatives. This year, aside from the token, “When are you getting married?” and “Is working on the Internet really a job, dear?” questions, Thanksgiving is probably going to involve getting into full-blown arguments about the 45th President of the United States. To keep your cool (and keep from getting into a fistfight with your NRA-card-carrying cousins), why not try out some of these tasty fall cocktails? There might be at least one that everyone can agree on.

1. Batman

Recently added to the menu of JIMMY at The James in New York by mixologist Johnny Swet, this dark-hued drink actually contains quite a bit of bright flavor. Blackwell rum and activated charcoal form the earthy base, which is the perfect foil for lime, pineapple, and mint.

Ingredients

2 oz Blackwell Rum
¼ teaspoon Activated Charcoal
2 oz Pineapple Juice
.5 oz Lime Juice
.5 oz Agave
grilled pineapple chunks and mint

DIrections

Muddle a bar spoon of grilled pineapple chunks and mint in a tall glass. Combine the rum and activated charcoal, and shake and strain into the glass. Add crushed ice and swizzle, and garnish with pineapple and mint.

2. Star of Autumn

The Star of Autumn is a warming cocktail that pairs really well with Thanksgiving desserts like pumpkin pie. It features Facundo Neo rum, which offers a balanced blend of medium-to heavy-bodied rums aged up to eight years and filtered over activated carbon to remove any color. Combined with Applejack and maple syrup, this cocktail is a delicious salute to fall flavors.

Ingredients

1 ½ parts Facundo Neo rum
1 part Laird’s Applejack
¼ part Maple Syrup
¼ part lemon juice
Granny Smith apple, for garnish

Directions

Shake all of the ingredients with plenty of ice. Strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a thin apple wedge or curled apple peel, and serve.

3. Chicken Soup Hot Toddy

We’ve never met a more intriguing drink than this chicken soup hot toddy. Swet’s creation, a blend of hot chicken stock, celery bitters, and gin, is the warming cold-weather drink we’ve been waiting all our lives for — and it might keep Grandma occupied long enough to keep her from saying racist things in front of your new boyfriend.

Ingredients

1 oz Nolet’s Gin
1 dash celery bitters
.25 lemon juice
4 oz hot chicken stock
1 carrot stick
1 celery stick
Parsley, to garnish

Directions

Pour into snifter. Garnish with carrot, celery stick, and parsley.

4. Spiced Mexican Hot Chocolate

This is the perfect drink to serve as a nightcap or after dinner drink. It’s warm and cozy, making everyone think of happier times, with white Christmases and a White House that didn’t seem so apocalyptically terrifying.

Ingredients

5 oz hot chocolate (homemade or from a mix)
1 oz Reposado El Tesoro Tequila
1 oz Ancho Reyes Chili Liquor
pinch of cinnamon
marshmallow

Directions

Add the tequila and chili liquor to a mug. Add the hot chocolate and stir. Garnish with a marshmallow dusted with cinnamon.

5. Seoul Man

This drink was inspired by Swet’s love of salty Korean food, but it also makes a great pre-dinner cocktail. It’s just spicy enough, and the combo of soju and vodka might get you drunk enough to be able to ignore your great uncle talking about ways to Make America Great Again.

Ingredients

ginger
1.5 oz soju
1.5 oz cucumber vodka
.5 sweet mirin
.25 oz lemon juice
2 bar spoons of gouchujang
chili salted cucumber, for garnish

Directions

Muddle the ginger in a glass. Shake the soju, cucumber vodka, mirin, and lemon juice with the gouchujang and ice. Strain into the glass and garnish with chili salted cucumber.

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Shots, shots, shots! Take a swig of one of these immunity shots and rest assured, you’re doing your body an immense favor.

These recipes are potent elixirs that are as much of an affront to your senses as regular alcohol-based shots, only without the alcohol and the accompanying acidity. No matter the season, it is important to keep your immunity in check to thwart illness while also feeling and looking your best. An immunity shot is a quick and effective way to deluge your body with a two-ounce burst of anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and antioxidant effects.

All of theese immunity shot recipes have something in common: they feature ginger. Ginger is a panacea when it comes to overall health and immunity. Ginger contains the bioactive compound gingerol, which is responsible for much of the spice’s medicinal properties. Ginger can help treat nausea and morning sickness, reduce muscle pain and soreness, improve joint health, lower blood sugar levels and cholesterol, prevent cancer, boost heart health, improve digestion, and fight infections.

The other accompanying ingredients in each recipe are meant to provide a good dose vitamin C, cleanse the cells of toxins, and fight inflammation, all important elements in boosting immunity.

While you could make the ginger juice while making these individual recipes, I like to make a weekly batch of ginger juice – a liter or so – and keep it ready for whenever I want to pour myself a quick shot. I also like to use the ginger juice for other things besides these shot recipes, such as in soups, smoothies, and even on its own for a quick pick-me-up.

3 Immunity Shot Recipes

1. Carrot Garlic Shot

Makes three 2-ounce shots

Ingredients

• 4 carrots
• 1-inch nub ginger
• Juice of 2 lemons
• 2-4 cloves garlic

Directions

Run the garlic and ginger through the juicer, followed by the carrots. Squeeze the lemons separately. Add the lemon juice to the carrot mixture. Stir and serve!

2. Orange and Turmeric Shot with Manuka Honey

Makes two to three, 2-ounce shots

Ingredients

• ½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger juice
• 2 tablespoons manuka honey
• 1 tablespoon fresh turmeric juice (or 1 teaspoon turmeric powder)
• Pinch of cayenne pepper

Directions

Whisk all of the ingredients together and serve.

3. Wheatgrass and Aloe Shot

Makes two, 2-ounce shots

Ingredients

• ¼ cup wheatgrass juice (preferably freshly juiced at home)
• ¼ cup aloe vera (food grade)
• 1 tablespoon ginger juice

Directions

Stir the ingredients together and serve!

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The following 4 cocktail recipes are perfect for warm weather and will excite your senses and those of your guests all season long.

Your summer cocktail concoctions should reflect the season’s light, refreshing ways. But instead of attaining flavor rushes by overdoing the sugar, artificial ingredients, and other not-so-body-friendly additives, opt for cocktail ingredients that showcase the inherent deliciousness and bounty of summer’s true flavors.

4 Summer Cocktail Recipes

1. Orange Peach Mimosa Slush

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1 orange
• 1 cup frozen peach slices
• 2 cups ice cubes
• ¼ freshly squeezed orange juice
• ½ cup Champagne
• Orange slices for garnish

Directions

Slice the orange in half, remove the seeds, and cut off the peel. Add the orange flesh, frozen peach slices, ice cubes, orange juice, and Champagne to a high-speed blender and mix until slushy and smooth.

Pour the mixture into four wine glasses and garnish with orange slices.

2. Honeydew Basil Margarita

Serves 4

Ingredients

• ½ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup basil leaves, plus extra for garnish
• 4 cups chopped honeydew melon, frozen
• ½ cup + 2 tablespoons blanco tequila
• 1 cup fresh lime juice

Directions

In a high-speed blender, add all the ingredients together and puree until smooth. Pour into glasses and garnish with basil leaves.

3. Summer Punch

Serves 8

Ingredients

• 1 cup bourbon
• 1 cup white vermouth
• ½ cup fresh lemon juice
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• 1 ½ cups chilled ginger beer

Directions

Combine all ingredients into a punch bowl. Serve over ice.

4. Lemon Drop

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1 cup vodka
• 2 ounces triple sec
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup lemon juice

Directions

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until cool and then filter into glasses.

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These 7 summer cocktail recipes are EcoSalon tested and approved. Don’t stick to your comfort zone!  Instead take advantage of delicious fresh and light seasonal produce and the many opportunities available to kick back outdoors. Enjoy!

7 Summer Cocktail Recipes

1. Kiwi Blackberry Summer Sangria

Traditional sangria is a summer staple, offering a sweeter and lighter take on red wine, which is otherwise best with heavier meals. This recipe for a summer sangria takes regular sangria to the next level, with oranges, lemons, limes, cranberries, strawberries and blueberries!

2. Moonshine Kombucha Cocktail

You don’t need seltzer water to get that bubbly! A hipster’s dream come true, this Moonshine kombucha cocktail recipe introduces vodka to kombucha, lemon, lime, ginger and bitters for a decidedly festive and summer-apropos outcome.

3. Pear Gin Cocktail

Sophistication just met its match. Whether you are sipping alone or seeking to entertain a small party with higher than average standards, take the time to add an extra step to the mixing process for the sake of this deliciously sweet poached pear gin cocktail. Its incredibly easy to put together!

4. Grapefruit Gin Fizz

Gin fizz is a classic cocktail made with lemon juice, carbonated water and gin. While this grapefruit gin fizz recipe was originally posted for Halloween, its components scream nothing other than summer itself, with grapefruit, honey and blackberry adding that sour and sweet dynamic your body craves!

5. Roasted Tomato Martini

Even a cocktail can satisfy you with your vegetable serving for the day (well, sorta). This roasted tomato martini recipe makes the best of summer tomatoes by satisfying your savory tooth and giving you a buzz while you’re at it.

6. Honey, Ginger Sparkling Lemonade

Step up your lemonade game with this honey, ginger sparkling lemonade recipe. Lemon, ginger and rosemary take a dip with your liquor of choice to create your next favorite summer cocktail of choice.

7. Red Cranberry Cocktail Recipe with Blue Ice Cubes

It doesn’t get much better than this? Sweetened with agave, this vodka and cranberry concoction is a lighter take on a bar favorite. The B’lure blue hibiscus concentrate ice cubes add even more fun to the party.

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This is one gorgeous cocktail to add to your roster of 4th of July recipes. A simple cranberry vodka mixed drink is electrified by dramatic blue ice cubes infused with hibiscus flavor.

Make your blue ice cubes a few days before so they are ready to drop into your cranberry mixer day of. Freeze the blue water in regular ice cube trays or get creative with different shapes. Serve in vintage champagne glasses to display your patriotic cocktails.

A brilliant Australian company has come up with a natural alternative to blue food coloring or blue Curaçao which is often filled with additives and is certainly an acquired taste. These B’lure cocktail mixers turn your drinks blue and red depending on whether you add citrus and at the same time deliver a very subtle herbal hibiscus flavor.

Red and Blue Cranberry Vodka Cocktail

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

1/4 cup agave nectar
4 oz vodka 
4 cups cranberry juice 
2 tablespoons B’lure blue hibiscus concentrate (or replace 6 of the 12 ounces of water with blueberry juice)

Directions

In a pitcher, combine 12 ounces of water with 2 tablespoons blue hibiscus concentrate. Pour into an ice cube tray and freeze for at least 4 hours.

Stir the cranberry juice, vodka and agave together in a pitcher or large jar. Divide into cocktail glasses and add two blue ice cubes to each.

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Memorial Day is just around the corner and nothing screams warm weather and an impending summer quite like a fruity gesture. The following four cocktail recipes gear you up for a buzz-worthy summer. And these cocktail recipes are not only delicious, they are also good to your waistline! The ingredients are fresh and the recipes easy to prepare. Enjoy!

1. Watermelon Margarita

Serves 8

Ingredients:

• 1 cup frozen watermelon
• 1.5 ounces tequila
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
• 1 teaspoon lime zest
• 1 packet (or a few drops) stevia
• 2 ounces lime seltzer

Directions: Blend all together and serve in a margarita glass rimmed with a salt/sugar mix.

2. Mango Berry Sangria

Serves 8-10

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle of white wine
• 1 cup fresh apple juice
• ½ cup orange liquor
• 1 cup mango puree
• 1 cup of assorted berries
• ¼ cup lime juice
• Handful of fresh mint leaves
• 1 ½ cups ginger ale
• 1 lime, sliced
• Ice
• Stevia for added sweetness (optional)

Directions: In a pitcher, stir together the apple juice, orange liquor, mango puree, berries, lime juice and mint. Cover the pitcher and let sit in the fridge for at least 3 hours. Before serving, remove the mint leaves and fill the pitcher with ice. Then add in the ginger ale, lime slices, and wine. Stir until combined. For additionally sweetness, add stevia. Garnish with fresh mint.

3. Sparkling Barefoot Peach Bellini

Serves 8

Ingredients:

• 3 fresh peaches (or 2 cups frozen sliced peaches)
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 2 tablespoon agave syrup
• 1 bottle Champagne or sparkling wine, chilled
• Sliced fresh peaches and mint for garnish

Directions: Puree the fresh or frozen peaches with the lemon and agave until smooth. Pass through a sieve if using fresh peaches in order to separate the peels from the mix. Pour into a large pitcher and add sparkling wine. Stir and serve in champagne flutes. Garnish with sliced fresh peaches or fresh mint.

4. Limoncello Collins

Serves 4

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces Limoncello
• 6 ounces gin
• ½ cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice
• Paper-thin slices of lemon (10-12)
• Ice
• Club water
• Mint for garnish

Directions: Mix together the Limoncello, gin and lemon juice in a pitcher. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Line glasses with the slices of lemon, pressing them to the sides. Fill with ice and divide the Limoncello mixture among the four glasses. Top with club soda.

Aylin Erman is founder of GlowKitchen. There she shares step-by-step picture recipes of her plant-based creations. Aylin lives and works in Istanbul as a writer and editor at the country’s first-ever green-living and sustainability platform, Yesilist. Like her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter to keep up with food news and recipes.

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What are bitters? If you want to up the ante on your cocktail recipes, you need to know a thing or two about bitters.

Unless you’re a bartender or a cocktail aficionado, you’re probably aware that a lot of drinks have bitters in them, but you might be hard-pressed to say what they actually are. As an essential to the modern bar, to master your cocktail making skills it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with bitters and what to do with them.

Here’s a quick guide to act as your introduction to the bitter world.

What are bitters?

Think of bitters as the spice of the cocktail world. They have a long history going back to the 1700s when they were developed by physicians and acted as medicinal tonics. A bitter is essentially a blend of either herbs, fruits, spices, or roots that are distilled in a strong liquor.

Angostura is probably the most common of the bitters, and even if you’re not steeped in the cocktail world you have probably already heard mention of it. Concocted in the river trading town of Angostura, Venezuela (now, Ciudad Bolívar), in the 1820s by a German doctor, Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, working for Simón Bolívar, Angostura bitters quickly became popular amongst sailors looking to ease sea sickness. Nowadays you’ll find Angostura bitters in a variety of drinks, like an Old Fashioned or a champagne cocktail.

Can you make bitters at home?

While there are plenty of brands out there making bitters, both big and small, you can also go truly artisan and start making them yourself. The basics are mixing spices with a high proof alcohol and then allowing enough time for them to all sit and steep together. You’re not really restricted to what you use, you can blend a variety of spices and herbs as you see fit; a fun opportunity to experiment and have a homemade addition to your cocktail recipes. Make your own bitters and your own simple syrups and you will truly have a DIY cocktail bar.

How do you use bitters?

Since we’re considering bitters the spice of the cocktail world, use them a little like you would salt and pepper. That’s to say, they are not intended for consumption on their own, but add a few drops to a drink and you can completely change the taste. Start with some classic aromatic bitters – like Angostura or Peychaud’s – and then branch out.

You can get into fruit bitters, like Bar Keep’s organic apple or grapefruit, and even spicy bitters, like Sriracha from Brooklyn Hemispherical Bitters. Or how about Thai Bitters from The Bitter End? If you’re feeling like you really wanting to commit to your new bitter habit, you can even invest in a Bitters Travel Pack so you can take your bitters with you. yes, they are in TSA-friendly sized bottles.

While the bitter options may seem overwhelming, keep in mind that having just one or two bitters on hand in your at-home bar can allow you to make a variety of cocktails.

Happy cocktail making.

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Cocktail culture has a way of going in and out of style–just like with fashion. While bell-bottoms came back in style, and are again out of fashion (and really should stay there), the notion of retro or vintage cocktail recipes seems to be sticking around.

Movies and TV are one way that vintage cocktails come back into fashion. James Bond gave us the martini, which is based on a concoction from the late 1800s; “Sex in the City” gave us the Cosmopolitan, a drink that actually dates back to the 1930s; “The Big Lebowski” gave us the White Russian, which can be traced back to the 1960s; and most recently “Mad Men” has re-popularized the Manhattan, which history has it as being invented at the Manhattan Club in the 1800s.

It appears that with mixology, as with fashion, everything is derivative.

So, what are some vintage cocktails worthy of ordering up or serving at your New Year’s Eve party? Here are 4 retro cocktail recipes that have made a comeback for good reason–they are tasty!

The Manhattan

A traditional Manhattan is made with Rye (Canadian Whiskey, like Crown Royal), sweet vermouth, bitters and is often served with a maraschino cherry. For those who don’t know, sweet vermouth is nothing like the vermouth found in the martini and bitters is actually an alcohol flavored concoction made with herbs–think of it like vanilla extract for booze. It is served in a martini glass and bourbon and Tennessee whiskey can be substituted for the rye as well. One should experiment with the Manhattan to find the preferred preparation. For example, I prefer mine made with rye and extra bitters.

Old-Fashioned

The Old-Fashioned dates back to the 1800s and it is considered one of the classic cocktails. It is served in an low glass called an Old-fashioned glass, which was pretty much named for the drink. The Old-fashioned is made with whiskey or brandy which is added to muddled sugar (or simple syrup), bitters and served with a twist of citrus rind or a maraschino cherry. It is the drink of choice for Don Draper, and again, is one that should be experimented with to find the right combination of elements.

French 75

The French 75 is a Champagne cocktail and it is probably most remembered from the 1930s movie “Casablanca.” It is made with gin, lemon juice, simple syrup and Brut Champagne and is serve in either a Collins glass or a Champagne flute. It has a bite and might make a welcome addition to your next brunch instead of the more traditional Bellini or Mimosa.

Moscow Mule

The Moscow Mule is a tasty cocktail made from ginger beer (the more bitter, the better), vodka and lemon. It was first invented in the 1940s and became popular in the 1950s at the height of the Cold War. It is served “on the rocks”, or over ice, in a copper mug that keeps the drink ice cold. It is a refreshing and delightful variation on the Buck or Mule cocktails, which are all made by adding various liquors and citrus to ginger beer.

See the International Bartenders Association for official recipes and more retro cocktail ideas.

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11 cocktail recipes for the hippest happy hour in town.

Been finding a whole lot of infusions and craft spirits on the drink menu lately? Cocktails are having a comeback (did they ever really leave) and that means good drinks, served strong. Fortunately, you don’t have to hit up the bar to drink them. You may think your only option for the at-home bar is a dirty martini, but think again: hipster cocktail recipes are just a few infused simple syrups and specialty spirits away.

For those looking to be their own innovative bartender, here are 11 cocktail recipes to make sure you stay on top of the cocktail trend. Mustaches and bartender vests not included.

1. The Three-Ingredient Cocktails

Simplicity is sexy, and the first thing on your list should be to master some classic cocktail recipes, like a Manhattan, Negroni or an Old Fashioned. Why go overboard with ingredients when you can keep it three and under? Look for locally distilled spirits to keep it as hip as possible.

2. Death in the Afternoon

So you were looking for a way to drink absinthe that didn’t involve sugar cubes and fire? Then here’s the cocktail for you: absinthe and champagne, go.

3. Elderflower and Lime Martini

Elderflower cordial seems to be popping up in lots of cocktail recipes these days. Mixed with lime juice, it provides for a refreshing twist on a classic martini.

4. Cardamom Moscow Mule

Made popular during the vodka craze of the 1950s, a Moscow Mule cocktail recipes typically involve vodka, ginger beer and lime. And what better way to modernize it than with a homemade, cardamom infused ginger ale? For authenticity, find a set of traditional copper mugs before you serve it.

5. The Pickleback

This drink combo pairs two foodie loves: good whiskey and pickling. Yes, all this is is a shot of whiskey followed by a shot of pickle brine, which of course you should have plenty of on hand, because you’ve been pickling your own dills for quite some time now, right?

6. Mezcal & Mayhem

Want cocktail recipes that prove your booze prowess? Skip the tequila and go for the mexcal instead. Made by roasting agave hearts, mezcal has a deep, smoky flavor. In this recipe, which blends little Campari and a Belgian trippel-style beer, you’re sure to win the hearts of those in search of a distinct drink.

7. The Blood & Sand

Scotch in a cocktail? Scotch purists may shudder in shame, but if you need a gentle introduction to drinking scotch this can be a good place to start. Make it by mixing the peaty drink with orange juice and sweet vermouth.

8. Sage and Peppercorn Old Fashioned

Herb-infused cocktail recipes are gaining in popularity, especially those that use savory herbs that most of us would associate with dinner dishes. Take sage for example: in this cocktail, sage leaves are paired with bitters and rye whiskey for a cocktail that screams of autumn.

9. Carrot Beet Shrub

Vinegary shrub cocktail recipes are super trendy, and they’re even better when made with obscure ingredients, particularly vegetables. Because everyone likes a drink which can be pawned off as moderately healthy. Beet juice? But of course.

10. Shift Drink

There is a certain type that has a love affair with Fernet-Branca; most of the ones I know are bartenders. It’s aromatic and very herb heavy, so it’s not for the faint of heart. But mixed with a little rye whiskey and ginger syrup, you have a classic cocktail that most people will be hard pressed to turn down.

11. Dark Moon

Rum is also making a comeback, and in this recipe it’s mixed with another hipster drink of choice: cold brew. That’s right, a creamy caffeinated cocktail. Make sure you’re not drinking it before bed.

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