As in “floating” alcohol in a drink.

Floating means to pour gently on top of the drink. Floating refers to the fact that you want the liquor to “float” on top of the other ingredients. You also don’t stir a drink after adding a float.

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Hosting a Barbecue

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Ingredients

2 oz vodka
2 oz cranapple juice
2 oz pineapple juice

Instructions

Fill a collins glass with ice and add vodka. Fill with juices.

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Ingredients

1 oz Southern Comfort
1 oz Stoli Raspberry
1 oz Stoli Orange
Pineapple juice

Instructions

Combine liquor in a pint glass filled with ice. Fill with pineapple juice.

Instructions

1 oz tequila
1 oz rum
1 oz vodka
1 oz gin
1 oz blue curaçao
Sweet & sour mix
7 Up

Ingredients

Fill a collins glass with ice and add alcohol one by one. Fill with sour mix and top with of 7 Up. Garnish with a cherry.

How do you make old-fashioned mix from scratch? Better to make each drink separately from scratch.

Old Fashioned

You can premix bitters with sweet & sour as well.

Here are a few that will make her happy:
http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/midori_sour.htm
http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/archive/d/daiquiri.htm
http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/archive/p/pineapple_daiquri.htm
http://www.drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mojito.htm.