10 Drinks To Try Out With The Girls This Weekend
Is your workweek dragging on? Are you looking for an escape? How about drinks with your girlfriend this weekend? If you plan on going out, you need to be a little educated in great drinks. Here's 10 Drinks To Try Out With The Girls This Weekend.
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Any Umbrella Drink
Long Island Iced Teas, Long Beach Iced Teas, Tokyo Teas, whatever. You can't go wrong.
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Shooters
Are you really ordering Jolly Ranchers and Gummi Bears in a drink? You bet you are!
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A Shirley Temple
It's two parts Ginger ale, one part orange juice, and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry.
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Gimlet
The gimlet is a cocktail made of gin and lime juice. Here's the 1928 description of the drink: "gin, a spot of lime, and soda".
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Blue Hawaiian
Why not be on vacation in Hawaii every day of the week? ,The Blue Hawaii is a tropical cocktail made of rum, pineapple juice, blue Curacao, sweet and sour mix, and sometimes vodka as well. Actually sounds pretty good...
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White Russian
A White Russian is a sweet cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueurs, cream, and it's served with ice in an Old Fashioned glass.
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Zima
Introduced back in 1993, it was marketed not as a beer, but as an alternative to beer. It was an early example of “alcopop”. Zima was a clear, lightly carbonated, alcoholic beverage.
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Any Wine Cooler
A wine cooler is made from wine and fruit juice. Where could you go wrong?
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The Roy Rogers
A Roy Rogers is a non-alcoholic mixed drink made with cola and grenadine syrup, garnished with a maraschino cherry. It is similar to the Shirley Temple.
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Pink Squirrel
The Pink Squirrel is a frozen cocktail made of 1 oz Creme de Noyaux, 1 oz Creme de Cacao, and 1 oz Half and half. It's pink and fun!