It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- America Edition

Since this week we was our 4th of July (that's right, they don't have it in other countries) I thought I'd share some pretty true (red,white &) blue drink recipes. I just found these online so I can't attest to the greatness of them, but with some of the recipes you really can't go wrong. Or I think I'm going to try instead to do drinks with American place names. I'm sure I don't know them all, so if you know any that you'd recommend that I've forgotten feel free to add them in the comments ( o ye mythical reader). Of course none of this are really canonical recipes so I'll put which ever one catches my fancy, or the first one I find, which will probably catch my fancy.

The California Iced Tea

fill with 1/2 sweet & sour mix
1/2 oz Orange Curacao
1 oz light rum
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz vodka
fill with 1/2 orange juice
1 splash 7-up

(and if you wanna make it Italian style, just add a jigger of absinthe)

Blue Hawaiian

1 oz light rum
1 cherry
2 oz pineapple juice
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 oz cram of coconut
1 pineapple slice

Blend light rum, blue curacao, pineapple juice, and cream of coconut with one cup ice in an electric blender at high speed

The Long Island
1 part vodka

1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coke

Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top

The Miami Vice

5 oz Bacardi 151
1 package frozen pina colada mix
1 package frozen daiquiri mix

1. Mix pina colada with 2.5 oz. of rum w/ ice. Set aside.
2. Mix daiquiri with 2.5 oz. of rum w/ ice.
3. While frozen, add pina colada mix to a cocktail glass. Add the daiquiri mix on top, keeping it seperated from the pina colada mix.

Colorado Bulldog

1 shot vodka
1 shot Kahlua
milk
1 splash Coke

In a shaker mix Vodka, Kahlua, and milk. Pour into a rocks glass and add a splash of Coca-Cola.

Cape Cod
(it's a cranberry and vodka)

Lynchburg Lemonade
1 part Jack Daniels
1 part sweet and sour mix
1 part triple sec
4 parts sprite

Missouri Mule

2 parts Bourbon 2 parts applejack 2 parts lemon juice 1 part campari 1 part contreau

Manhattan

3/4 oz sweet vermouth
2 1/2 oz bourbon
1 dash bitters
1 maraschino cherry
1 twist orange peel

Combine the vermouth, bourbon whiskey, and bitters with 2 - 3 ice cubes in a mixing glass. Stir gently, don't bruise the spirits and cloud the drink. Place the cherry in a chilled cocktail glass and strain the whiskey mixture over the cherry. Rub the cut edge of the orange peel over the rim of the glass and twist it over the drink to release the oils but don't drop it in.

Alabama Slammer

1/2 oz amaretto
1/2 oz Southern Comfort
1 splash orange juice
1 splash sweet and sour

Pour above ingredients into a stainless steel shaker over ice and shake until completely cold. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and serve.

and here are so more drinks named after America. Of course there are other drinks that just reek of America, like a Mint Julep, a Boilermaker or the All-American
So however you do it, do it well. I think you can have a good weekend now.