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Friday Night Madtini – The Hold Up

The Hold Up

It’s Friday afternoon again and while scanning through the pages of the Complete Home Bartender’s Guide: 780 Recipes for the Perfect Drink we chose this drink recipe. Tonight’s Friday Madtini cocktail is the Hold Up, with its delicious mix of brandy, coconut rum, orange and lemon juice will make your taste buds jump up and salute the oncoming weekend.

Cheers and have a happy weekend!

Ingredients

1 1/3 oz brandy
2/3 oz coconut rum
1 oz fresh orange juice
1/3 oz fresh lemon juice
dash gomme syrup

Preparation

Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker with several ice cubes. Shake and then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Welcome to Derby Day 2 – The Gran Derby

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Gran Derby Cocktail

Just as we were starting to relax around here with our Mint Juleps, one of our intrepid Madtini interns found this drink recipe on the Interwebs. Seems the gang over at Cocktail Times had posted a delicious looking drink recipe dubbed the Gran Derby, and since it appeared we had just enough Grand Marnier left in inventory, we felt we could substitute that for the GranGala listed in the recipe.

Still two hours to post time for the Derby… cheers!

Recipe

Ingredients

2 oz bourbon
1 1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1/2 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed of course)
1/2 oz Orange juice (ditto on the freshly squeezed)

Preparation

Moisten the rim of the martini glass with a lice of lemon. Dip the rim in a small plate covered in superfine sugar to create a frosted rim. Combine the bourbon, grand marnier, lemon and orange juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a cocktail glass.