Tax Day Cocktails!

[beans]

Well, if this helps to ease the pain of owing or promote the celebration of a return (why did you file so late! ), here's a wee list of cocktail ideas from nextDRINK.com.

Cheers!

Edited April 15, 2004 by beans (log)

[beans]

I was just emailed from the Vodka Magazine's electro vodka newsletter. Here is a cut and paste of their suggestion: (pictured beautifully in their signature pink motif)

"Get Your Mix On"

Tax Relief Sapphire Martini

2 oz. citrus or vanilla vodka

1 fresh strawberry

0.5 oz. Rose's grenadine

Ginger ale or diet 7Up

In a metal shaker, add 3-4 cubes of ice and a strawberry. Muddle* with the muddling club until the strawberry is smashed. Shake with vodka and grenadine. Pour into a martini glass (do not strain) and top with ginger ale or soda. Enjoy!

* Read this issue of Vodka Magazine to get more 'muddled' drink recipes.

Now that is a girly sort of sweet chick drink... I would use the grenadine with the precision of a mere droplet from an eye dropper, but it has promise to be balanced with the acidity of the citrus flavoured vodka and the spiceness of ginger ale.

Cheers!

[Matteo]

Try these for next year:

Flat Tax-Equal parts alcohol for all-Absolut, Bacardi, Beefeater, Cuervo, fresh lemon and a splash of coke

1040 EZ- Tanquerey 10, splash of fresh lime and a splash of Pernod

Blood from a Stone-Blood orange Charbay, Splash of blood orange juice and a splash of grenadine

Loupehole- Bacardi Lemon, Midori, Peach schnapps and a splash of soda

Harvey Bean Counter-Absolut Kurant, Fresh OJ and Galliano