Category: Sips & Shots
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Eggnog
Don’t think of this as unseasonal, just think of this as a very timely suggestion for any Christmas-in-July celebrations you may be planning! (Seriously, my other e-option was Everclear and, well, we don’t want to go there…) Eggnog is one of those dividing drinks: you either love it or hate it and I reside firmly…
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The Daiquiri
Why is the rum always gone?!?! I did have that thought tonight as I realized I was almost out of white rum. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself… The little town I grew up in (Ponchatoula) may now be an antiques mecca but when I was small it was mostly known for it’s…
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Butterscotch Schnapps
Another (brief) walk down memory lane… At a Victory Weekend in Daytona Beach, November 1994, one of the girls from Miami spent the entire first evening downing a bottle of Buttershots. Now, it doesn’t seem like butter-flavored (well, technically butterschotch) liqueur would taste very good or be a good idea in general but I have…
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The Amaretto Sour
When I was 18 I went to visit my Louisiana relations for Thanksgiving and, one night, some of us went out to a bar (named Robert E Lee’s, I kid you not). Now, this was back when Louisiana’s roads were worse than they are now and before they caved (for the umpteenth and final time,…
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