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Labor Day Drinks Recipies Pt5 | A Few Good Drinks

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Grey Goose and Sparkling Water

Ingredients:
* 1 part GREY GOOSE® Vodka
* 3 parts Sparkling Water

The easiest way to make Grey Goose and Sparkling Water:
* Combine ingredients over ice in a rocks glass with an olive or a lime.
** Try creating variations by mixing with ruby red grapefruit juice, cranberry juice or pomegranate juice and garnishing with cardamom, crushed chipotle pepper, basil, cilantro or vanilla.

Photo via Mixologist Eric Ribeiro

Blender’s Choice

Ingredients:
* 1 oz Buchanan’s 18-Year-Old Special Reserve Blended Scotch Whisky
* 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
* 1/4 oz Maraschino Cherry Juice
* 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
* 1 Dash Absinthe Lemon Peel for garnish

Making the Blender’s Choice:
* Combine Buchanan’s 18-Year-Old Special Reserve, sweet vermouth, maraschino cherry juice, angostura bitters, and absinthe into a cocktail shaker with ice.
* Shake well.
* Strain contents into a Coupe glass.
* Garnish with a lemon peel.

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Long Island Ice Tea

Ingredients:
* 2 cups ice cubes
* 1 ounce vodka
* 1 ounce gin
* 1 ounce white rum
* 1 ounce white tequila
* 1/2 ounce Triple Sec
* 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
* 1/2 cup cola, or to taste
* 2 lemon wedges

Easy Long Island Iced Tea Instructions:
* Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
* Pour the vodka, gin, rum, tequila, Triple Sec, and lemon juice into the shaker.
* Cover and shake vigorously to combine and chill.
* Pour the mixture, ice and all, into 2 glasses or beer mugs and top off with the cola.
* Garnish with lemon wedges.
* Serve.

** Note: with this recipe, you can easily change “ounce” to “part” and as long as you put equal parts of the ingredients the drink will come out perfect. Works well if you want a slightly larger drink or if you want to make a big batch.

Written by Rashad Pleasant

Photographer // Writer // Speaker // Passionate about people... generally barefoot...

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