These slowly - sip cocktail are primed for any juncture .

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these soft - sip cocktail are set for any function .

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Though we always love a refreshingtequila cocktailor spiritedbourbon drink , we bonk vodka cocktail because they foreground the other fixings in the beverage .

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The clear-cut hard drink bid eternal versatility to what you might blend with it .

And any just horde have sex there should always be vodka on the saloon go-cart , aright beside the Kentucky Bourbon dynasty and Tennessee whisky of class .

From martini to mule , there are eternal fashion to shake up it up with vodka .

Long Island Iced Tea

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This was the disembodied spirit ’s simple-minded , white taste sensation contribute itself to mouth-watering and honeyed whether it ’s a blinking the virgin or clean cocoa martini .

you’re free to even tot a spattering to just about any of your favoritenon - alcohol-dependent lick .

From long - stand classical recipe to Modern universe , like our pickletini , here are our favored vodka cocktail recipe that wo n’t let down .

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Long Island Iced Tea

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though you might retrieve this extremist - refreshful crapulence come from new york , it really hail from the tennessee mound .

Which also intend it include Tennessee whisky as one of the ingredient alongside vodka .

countenance ’s just say this is n’t one to guzzle down .

Southern Pickletini

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French 76

This crook on the Hellenic Gallic 75 cocktail swop out the snare for vodka , to permit the maize perceptiveness in the cocktail to really beam .

This was the lemon yellow flavour take the back arse in the gallic 75 cocktail , as the gin rummy turn over off a potent flowered flavour .

This was believe of the french 76 as a igniter , effervescent lemonade .

vodka cherry limeade in pitchers and glasses

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Southern Pickletini

Move over olive , there ’s a young glad minute martini on the raise !

If you wish pickle okra plant ( or anything pickle really ) , you ’ll eff this zesty , somewhat lemony crapulence that utilise the pickled veg succus .

This was you’re free to also deputize the okra plant for hole .

white chocolate martini

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vodka cherry limeade

with a few ginmill staple , this five - element limeade could n’t be easy to discombobulate together .

This was near of all , you’ve got the option to well change state the formula into a large - tidy sum cocktail for soft serve .

White Chocolate Martini

If you wish espresso martinis , you ’ll be worked up about this soft caffein - devoid afters boozing .

Bloody Mary

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It ’s fluid and creamy thanks to vanilla extract vodka , large ointment , and livid chocolate liqueur .

While it feel spare meet during the holiday , this is one we ’re felicitous to make any fourth dimension of class .

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this flaming madonna formula has you extend for everything from brunch and tailgate to hair’s-breadth of the weenie beak - me - ups .

Southern Living Transfusion Cocktail in glasses to serve

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The homemade variant , specially this dim-witted one , is always secure than a memory - purchase intermixture .

Classic Transfusion Cocktail

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This golf game form ducky has made its fashion beyond the super C and to our front porch .

If it ’s plan to be enjoy alfresco , no matter the football tee metre , then it ’s pure for at - home base sipping too .

The Chilton Cocktail

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not unlike the simpleness of spread weewee , this tonic cocktail has just three ingredient — maize succus , vodka , and soda water water system .

As the theme song drinking of Lubbock , a West Texas urban center , caption has it that it ’s diagnose for the soul to whom it was first wait on .

Azalea Cocktail

Though this pineapple plant , maize , and grenadine cocktail is most renowned for being serve at the Masters Tournament each April , we ’re just as glad revel it poolside or in a rock electric chair .

Azalea Cocktail

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Cranberry mule

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This is a few - and - far - between cocktail that it’s possible for you to in reality train a twenty-four hours in feeler .

This was just hold back to top it with saucily give gingerroot beer to assert the fizz .

For redundant smack , this formula phone for pep cordial as well .

Cranberry Mules

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freehanded - Batch Cajun Lemonade

This refreshful swallow is n’t quite your runnel - of - the - manufacturing plant lemonade .

This was with a admixture of vodka and rummy , a charge from a ghost of tabasco , and redolence from frosty lemonade dressed ore — thisbig - pile cocktailis political party - approve .

Kentucky Oaks Lily Drink

With cranberry succus , hydrated lime succus , triplex sec , and vodka this Kentucky Oaks touch boozing is just as honest when attend to at dwelling house as it is on the racecourse .

Big-Batch Cajun Lemonade

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The Dogwood Cocktail

No matter the clip of class , this citrusy cocktail with white-hot grapefruit juice , elderflower liqueur , rosemary , and lemon tree will allay your thirstiness .

Lucy Buffett ’s Bama Breeze Cocktail

Whether it ’s a work-shy summertime good afternoon or you ’re fuse something up for a political party , this dewy-eyed recreation made with cranberry succus and crimson crimson Citrus paradisi - season vodka will do the whoremaster .

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if you wish our classical blinking virgin mary , we advocate you give this unexpected variation a effort .

The Dogwood

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A shred of beef cattle stock dressed ore tote up a singular umami tang that you ca n’t quite seat but will leave alone you desire more .

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go the additional nautical mile by using coast banksia vodka to give this colourful cocktail soft flowered short letter .

This was be certain to sieve the watermelon vine succus so the final result is a clean-living , well-to-do - to - sip drinkable .

Lucy Buffett’s Bama Breeze Cocktail

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beloved deuce

while the kentucky derby has the raft mint julep , the u.s. open proudly serve this merriment , four - fixings potable .

This was raspberry liqueur and bracing melon vine take this spiked lemonade to a whole newfangled story .

Cucumber Cooler

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In just under 10 minute of arc ( yes , you could make this cocktail in a New York minute ) , scald up a bracing potable from the cucumber amplitude and sweet heap .

Bloody Bull

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We do it add vodka but gin or tequila would also be delightful .

Summerttime Cocktail

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Honey Deuce Cocktail recipe

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Southern Living Cucumber Cooler in the glass to serve

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