Dexter’s Back! The Butcher

by Merlene | Vodka based

Ingredients 2 oz of beef broth 1 1/2 oz vodka dash of tomato juice 8-9 dashes of Tabasco sauce dash of ground pepper Preparation Combine the beef broth, vodka, tomato juice, tabasco sauce in a cocktail shaker. Add a few rounds of ground pepper. Close and shake the...

It’s Harvest Time: Pumpkin Spice Madtini

by Merlene | Vodka based

Before we even start, this drink is insanely delicious and the post contains a Neil Young link. You have been warned. This week fall officially arrived in our area, and while we’d like summer to last forever, we’re ready for some cooler temperatures and...

Speak… I mean Drink like a Pirate Day with the Madtini Crew

by Merlene | Bourbon, Rum based, Vodka based

“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Well, shiver me timbers it looks like it’s “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” again already. It seems just yesterday that I was annoying friends, colleagues...

Drink like a Pirate Day: Pirate Bay Breeze

by Merlene | Vodka based

Ingredients 2 1/2 oz Vodka 1 oz Cranberry Juice 1 oz Pineapple Juice Preparation Fill a rocks glass with smashed ice; add the vodka, then add pineapple juice and the cranberry juice for color. Garnish with a wedge of pineapple. Stay in touch, follow Madtini now...

Its 90210 Day – Pour Yourself a Peach Pit

by Merlene | Rum based, Vodka based

I was blissfully unaware of the significance of today when I scrambled from bed. I had already slept through my iPhone alarm and hit the snooze button a half dozen times. It wasn’t until I arrived at work that I saw that Twitter was lit up with people talking...

The Mapito – From Down Under and to the Left

by Merlene | Vodka based

I’m not exactly sure what a Mapito is, if you do please tell me. I did a quick search and seem to keep coming back to a mapito being some kind of bush tent. I was looking for a way to use up extra cucumbers, and found this recipe on WonderHowTo.com from the...