Vote for the best drink created during TDN: Cointreau

There could be no better way to get ready for Drink.Write 2009 and Tales of the Cocktail than a most excellent TDN, so we were thrilled to work with Cointreau this week. Here are the best drinks of the night. The winner will receive a Japanese barspoon courtesy of Mud Puddle Books.

Summertime on Spring Street

• 1.5 oz El Dorado 5
• 1.5 oz Cointreau
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 5-10 leaves mint.

Shake with afternoon delight. Strain over ice. Top with a splash of soda.

Georgian Harvest

• 2 oz gin
• 0.25 oz Benedictine
• 0.25 oz Campari
• 0.5 oz Cointreau
• 3 thyme sprigs
• 3 large chunks peach
• 1 quarter lime
• 0.25 oz simple syrup

Muddle thyme, peach, and lime in a mixing glass with simple syrup. Add gin, Benedictine, Campari, and Cointreau. Shake and strain into an old fashioned glass with ice.

The BBBC

• 2 ounces bourbon
• 1 ounce Cointreau Noir
• 1 ounce B&B

Stir with your finest imported barspoon, serve up.

Data’s Humanity

• 2 oz rye
• 1 oz cointreau
• 0.5 oz lemon juice
• 0.5oz passion fruit syrup
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• 1 dash Herbsaint or absinthe
• lemon peel

Shake liquid ingredients over ice in perfect time, strain into cocktail glass, and garnish with lemon peel.

Be sure to vote for your favorite!

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