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Some Cocktails to Try at Home

Sicilian Rose
Makes 2 cocktails
1.5 oz Averno
1.5 oz Campari
1 oz Blood Orange Puree
1.5 oz Sweet Vermouth
Orange wheel
Pour all ingredients into rocks glass, add ice, stir, garnish with an orange wheel.

Sazerac
Makes 2 cocktails
pernod (or absinthe)
3 ounces Mitcher’s Rye
6 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
1 ounce simple syrup
Lemon Peel
Chill 2 rocks glasses. Pour a dash of pernod into each glass and twirl to coat the inside of the glasses. Combine the Rye, bitters, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Top with ice and stir gently. Strain into the chilled glasses. twist a piece of lemon peel over each glass to release the fragrant oils into the glass. discard the twist and serve.
Negroni Classico
Makes 2 cocktails
2 oz Gin
2 oz Campari
2 oz Dubonnet rouge
Orange slice or orange twist Stir the ingredients together over ice and strain into a chilled martini glass straight up or serve on the rocks. Garnish with an orange slice or an orange twist.
Aperol Negroni Spritz
Makes 2 cocktails
2 oz gin
2 oz Aperol
2 oz Carpano Antica
2 oz club soda
Pour all but soda into rocks glass, add ice, add soda, stir