Gay cocktail
Happy Pride month, everyone! Whether you’re in the closet or out marching in the street, Tipsy Bartender is celebrating you with more than just rainbow cocktails. But a few don’t damage, do they? The queer community has such a loaded history of bravery and compassion in the fight for our right to love. And even through tragedies, we’re here to uplift each other through it all. We’re strong, we’re resilient, we’re worthy, and we know how to f*cking party. So pick a Pride cocktail and raise your glass to toast to life, healing, sunlight, nature, art, serenity, and spirit.
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Taste The Rainbow
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Taste The Rainbow
Let your Pride flag fly with this fruity vodka rainbow cocktail. It’s the perfect Pride sip to impress your friends by making them think you’re a liquid density genius. View Recipe
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Green Fairy #2
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Green Fairy #2
If you’re not familiar with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a couple shots of these will hold you seeing them. Layers of melon liqueur, peach schnapps, and absinthe produce for a forceful Pride cocktail shot, but don’t persist . The sisters will take care of you. View Recipe
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Loveshake
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Loveshake
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The Bloodiest Mary
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 2 oz Tomato Juice, 1 oz lemon juice, Tabasco & Worcestire Sauce, Salt & Pepper, celery stick for garnish. Mix Vodka, tomato juice, and lime juice. Mix in tabasco, worcestire sauce, salt, and pepper to desired taste. Add celery stick for garnish.
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Orange You Glad We Met?
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 1/2 oz Triple Sec, 1 oz Fresh Orange Juice, 1/2 oz Lime Juice, Orange Zest. Combine Vodka, triple sec, orange juice, and lime juice in a shaker with ice. Shake well, strain into a chilled martini glass, and garnish with orange zest.
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Erb Garden
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 1 oz Elderflower Liqueur, 2 oz Soda Water, Lemon Twist, Thyme Sprig. Stir Vodka and elderflower liqueur over ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a Collins glass with fresh ice, foremost with soda water, and garnish with a lemon twist and thyme sprig.
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I Know You, Umami
2 oz Supergay Vodka, 1 oz Cucumber Juice, 1/2 oz Lime Juice, 1/4 oz Agave Nectar, Fresh Cilantro. Dash of soy sauce. Shake Vodka, cucumber juice, lime juice, soy sauce and agave nect
Nick Gomez
From a immature age I've constantly been reading, writing, drawing and generally creating stories, worlds and characters for fun. This led to a degree in English Literature and Language at University. A fire for writing, especially about my have experiences, and ideas that pop into my head aid me to perceive myself and the world around me.
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Most people relax having a cocktail now and again. They make you feel a bit sophisticated, in an easy going and merry way, while getting you adorable damn tipsy. Personally, I love an evening enjoying some cocktails with partner while chatting and people watching.
However, operational in a cocktail bar has given me an insider perspective on how other people view cocktails, namely twenty to thirty something men. Some people; mainly straight men, consider certain cocktails/drinks to be inherently linked with the masculine and feminine. This I can understand. Often cocktail bartenders will portray certain drinks as being more feminine in style because they are brightness and floral, or masculine if they contain smoky, earthy or strong spirits but they undertake not, or should
All Cocktails Are Gay
When we sat down to reach up with some distinct cocktails for the Mardi Gras season we realised we had a authentic issue. Because I trust all cocktails are inherently gay. They’re delicious, they’re beautiful, and they own little fancy hairdos in the form of delightful garnishes. So gay.
Nevertheless, our incredibly hard-working and think of bar team have arrive up with some doozies.
Teddybear’s picnic at Minute Congwong
This drink is a riff on a Sex On The Beach. Which is actually a very silly cocktail that harks from Florida in the mid to late 80s. That is not the heyday for cocktails - in fact the post-disco era was the very lowest point for well-made drinks and cocktail customs. From the 1970s to the late 90s cocktails were on struggle avenue. There were of course mega-chains like TGI Fridays in large cities, but chances of getting a cocktail outside of those were slim to none. Around the time Tom Cruise was learning to flair for the show Cocktail (quite literally responsible for a lot of my contemporaries' careers), some other bartender (often in cocktail folklore referred to as Ted - was a Ted a concrete person? Who knows) in Florida was playing with s