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Cocktails for Your Friends

Cocktails for Your Friends

written by Ariana Negri

New York Sour- Chandler 

What you need:

  • 2 oz. rye whiskey or bourbon
  • 1 oz. lemon juice, freshly squeezed
  • 3/4 oz. simple syrup
  • 1 egg white (optional)
  • 1/2 oz. red wine

How to make: 

  1. Add the whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white (optional) into a shaker with ice and shake hard until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
  3. Slowly pour the red wine over the back of a bar spoon so that the wine floats on top of the drink.

Midori Sour- Phoebe

What you need:

  • 1 oz. Midori
  • 1 oz. vodka
  • 1/2 oz. lemon juice, freshly squeezed 
  • Soda water, to top

How to make:

  1. Add the Midori, vodka, lemon and lime juices to a Collins glass with ice.
  2. Stir to combine, then top with the soda water.
  3. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.


Tequila Sunrise- Joey

What you need:

  • 1 1/2 oz. tequila 
  • 1/2 oz. grenadine syrup 
  • 3 oz. orange juice 

How to make:

  1. Pour the tequila and orange juice into a glass over ice.
  2. Add the grenadine, which will sink to the bottom
  3. Don not store. Garnish and serve. 


Cosmopolitan- Monica

What you need:

  • 1 1/2 oz. citron vodka
  • 1 oz. cranberry juice
  • 1/2 oz. Cointreau
  • 1/2 oz. lime juice, freshly squeezed

How to make: 

  1. Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
  2. Shake well and double strain into a large cocktail glass 
  3. Garnish with orange zest.


Old Fashioned- Ross

What you need: 

  • 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon or Rye whiskey
  • 1 sugar cube
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • Few dashes plain water

How to make:

  1. Place sugar cube in an old-fashioned glass and saturate with bitters. Add a dash of plain water.
  2. Muddle until dissolved.
  3. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey.
  4. Garnish with an orange slice and a cocktail cherry.


Champagne Cocktail-Rachel

What you need: 

  • 1 sugar cube
  • 2 to 4 dashes Angostura bitters
  • Champagne (or other sparkling wine) to top 

How to make:

  1. Place sugar cube on a bar spoon and douse with bitters. 
  2. Drop the cube into a chilled champagne flute or similar glass
  3. Fill the glass with champagne or other sparkling wine.
  4. Garnish with orange zest.