Burning Fawkes

Guy Fawkes cocktail recipes can make a party into a memorably lavish event that will be remembered until next year. Bonfire cocktails are dedicated to celebrating the opportunity to blow up local governments and do away with red tape and laws which are outdated.

To give a short history lesson. Over four hundred years ago Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up King James, (the 1st) during the opening ceremonies at the House of Parliament in London. His plot was foiled.

He was arrested, taken to the tower of London, tortured and stretched on the rack. He was then hung, drawn and quartered and his decapitated head was displayed for all of London to see on traitors gate.

Today, every year in Britain, the 5th of November is celebrated with fireworks, bonfires and parties to commemorate this event in history.

These are some of the most popular Burns Night or Bonfire Night cocktail drinks recipes:

Firework ( Flaming Cocktail Drink )

Ingredients

2 shots whiskey, sugar for sweetening, 1.5 oz boiled water, lemon garnish

Method

Pour the whiskey, water, and sugar into a cup with a handle. Light the mixture carefully. Use another heat resistant cup and pour the contents back and forth into the cups, whilst alight, 3-4 times. Finally, pour the contents into another cup with the lemon peel and smother the flame. Down the drink in one go.

Burning Fawkes

Ingredients

1 pint glass full of beer or lager, Amaretto, over proof rum or Sambuca

Method

Fill a shot glass three quarters full with Amaretto, top off with Sambuca. Fill a 1 pint glass with lager. Set alight to the Sambuca shot glass and literally drop into the pint glass. Drink immediatley.

Dynamite ( shot drink )

Ingredients

Jack Daniels, Sambuca

Method

Pour 1 shot of Jack Daniels and 1 shot of Sambuca into a cocktail shaker. Add some ice and shake vigorously. Pour into shot glass and enjoy.

Soaring Rocket

Ingredients

2 Shots Bourbon ( or old Whiskey ), 1 shot Vodka, 1 oz ( approx ) orange juice, 1 oz ( approx ) sweet and sour mix.

Method

Add all contents into a cocktail shaker with crushed ice and shake very well. Pour into a tall glass. Add orange slice and sparkler for decoration.

B52 ( Shot Drink - very warming )

Ingredients

Drambuie, Baileys Irish Cream

Method

3/4 fill shot glass with Drambuie, Top off with Baileys Irish Cream by pouring over a spoon to create a layer. Drink in one go.

Firework Display ( Excellent ice breaker at parties )

Ingredients

Test tubes, Baileys Irish Cream, Drambuie, White Rum

Method

1/3 fill a test tube with White Rum, slowly add Drambuie till 2/3 full, top of with Baileys Irish Cream.

* The test tubes can be filled with any type of drink. For visual effect, it is better to have a combination of two or three different drinks.

Catherine Wheel

Ingredients

1 shot Tequila, 1 shot White Rum, 2 squirts pineapple juice, 2 squirts grapefruit juice, 4 ice cubes

Method

Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously, Pour into tumbler, serve with thin straw. decorate with pineapple wedge / chunk and parasol.

Roman Candle

Ingredients

1 shot Vodka, 2 shots peach schnapps, 2 shots Kahlua, 5 shots orange juice

Method

Into a tall glass place in order: 3 ice cubes, vodka, peach schnapps, kahlua, orange juice. Do not stir. Add a straw and a parasol for decoration. Serve and drink.

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Day Of The Dead Drinks

Alcoholic & Non Alcoholic Drinks

Inspired by Day of the Dead we’ve put together some party drink recipes. These include Raspberry Mojitos, Juan Collins, Tequila Sunrise & a yummy Spicy Mulled Wine, perfect to offer party guests on their arrival.

These day of the dead drinks are our non-alcoholic offerings. They include the refreshing Agua Menta Naranja and delicious Mexican Lemonade with cilantro and chile peppers for those who are brave enough!

Juan Collins

3 parts tequila
1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tsp superfine sugar
6 parts club soda

Pour the tequila, lemon juice, and sugar into a tall glass with ice cubes. Add some club soda. Garnish with an orange slice.

Tequila Sunrise

1 measure tequila
1 large dash grenadine
fresh orange juice
a slice of orange

Place ice cubes in a glass so it is half full and then pour in tequila and orange juice. Tilt the glass and slowly pour in grenadine and allow it to settle at the bottom of the glass before serving. Garnish with a slice of orange.

Raspberry Mojito

1.5 measures of white rum
1.5 measures of raspberry liqueur
A dash of lime juice
1/2 measure of sugar syrup
Top up of Soda water
Mint leaves

‘Muddle’ or gently crush your mint leaves and sugar syrup in a tall glass
Add crushed ice, lime juice, the raspberry liqueur and white rum. Top the glass up with soda.

Agua Menta Naranja

For this easy and tasty concoction you will need:

2 Oranges
Fresh Mint
Still water
Ice

Fill the base of your jug with fresh mint leaves and slices of orange, and cover with a few inches of cold water. Muddle the mixture together so that the flavors are infused. Just before your guests arrive fill up the jugs with cold water. Add ice before serving. this recipe also works well with fizzy water.

Mexican Lemonade

For this fun and refreshing drink you will need:

Ice cold lemonade
the juice of two limes
2 handfuls of chopped cilantro (coriander)
Ice

If you’re feeling brave, chopped chili peppers to taste!

Fill a jug with the lime juice, coriander and peppers (to taste) and muddle gently together. Add some ice and top up the jug with lemonade.

It’s a fun idea to set up a colorful bar area and let guests make their own cocktails, or you may have a friend or family member who would enjoy a stint as bar tender! You can print off these cocktail recipes as a guide for your guests.

Setting up a party bar

Decorate with a skull garland or lapel picadas!

Stock your bar with:
plenty of glasses
coloured straws
a bucket of ice
Cocktail recipes (laminated if you’re feeling uber efficient!)
Spirits and mixers (if it is a b.y.o.b. party you could let guests
know which cocktails you have in mind).

A few cocktail terms and techniques:

To Muddle:
In cocktail terms, muddling is the crushing of fruit or herbs, to allow the flavours to be released. You can use a a pestle or even the end of a rolling pin. Push down with a twisting action.

To rim:To salt a glass, cut a piece of lime and rub it along the rim. Next pour a 1/4 inch of kosher salt (or a 50:50 mix of salt and fine sugar) on to a saucer or plate large enough to accommadate the entire rim of your glass. Dip the rim of the glass in the salt, twirling it around so that the salt sticks on the entire rim.

Crushed Ice

Some of these recipes call for crushed ice. Here’s how to make it:
Either crush the cubed ice in a blender or fill a bag with cubed ice and bash with a rolling pin. Display on your bar in an ice bucket with lid.

Remind folks at a party to drink responsibly! 

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Funny Drinking Quotes

We tried hard to find the best funny drinking quotes out there. If we missed something good, I assure you we want to know about it. Please leave us a comment below and send it our way so that we can add it to the page.

"A quote about drinking is a joy forever" - John Keats

"To alcohol! The cause of - and solution - to all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart

"Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer." - Al Bundy, Married with Children

"Bring a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out and then bring one every 10 minutes . . ." - Thornton Mellon, Back to School

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." - Dean Vernon Wormer, Animal House

"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." - Bluto, Animal House

--Homer: "No TV and no beer make Homer something something."
--Marge: "Go crazy?'
--Homer: "Don't mind if I do!"

"I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody." - Hawkeye from M*A*S*H

"Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey." - Pappy from Maverick

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. " - Dean Martin

"I don't care how liberated this world becomes, a man will always be judged by the amount of alcohol he can consume, and a woman will be impressed, whether she likes it or not. " 
- Doug Coughlin from Cocktail

"The luck is gone, the brain is shot, but the liquor we still got. " - Doug Coughlin from Cocktail

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. " - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. " - Ed McMahon

"I like my whiskey old and my women young. " - Errol Flynn

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Funny Alcohol Warnings

The FDA is considering additional warnings on beer and alcohol bottles, such as:

1 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.

2 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a  major factor in dancing like an idiot.

3 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.

4 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are smarter than most people, causing you to act like an moron.

5 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your pants.

6 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary (whose species and/or name you cannot remember).

7 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.

8 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.

9 – WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause an influx in the time-space continuum, whereby small (and sometimes large) gaps of time may seem to disappear.

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Beer & Bras

Beer and Bras...British men have been found twice as likely to know the price of their beer as their partner's bra size. A poll reported in Britain's Prima magazine found that 77% of males knew how much their beer costs but only 38% knew the correct size of ther mate's bra.

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