PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o sugar o 1 ½ ounces Hennessey VS cognac o ½ ounce Mount Gay XO rum o ½ ounce Cointreau o 1 ounce blood orange juice o ¼ ounce fresh lime juice Garnish o blood orange wheel Method: 1. Moisten rim of a cocktail glass. Invert it into a shallow dish of sugar to coat the rim. 2. Shake remaining cocktail ingredients over ice. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with blood orange wheel. Remarks: This could be one of the few instances when the sequel is better than the original. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ¾ ounces Remy Martin VSOP cognac o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters o ½ ounce maple syrup o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o apple cider Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Combine and stir all except the cider in an ice-filled collins glass. 2. Top with cider. 3. Garnish with orange twist. Remarks: Named for Remy Martin Cellar Master Baptiste Loiseau. This is a tasty refreshing cocktail. No reason to wait for autumn. Break out the cider. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Southern Comfort o 1 ounce blue Curaçao o 1 ½ ounces cranberry juice Garnish o 1 kiwifruit slice Method: 1. Shake all except cranberry juice over ice. 2. Strain into a large ice-filled cocktail glass. 3. Top with cranberry juice. 4. Garnish with a kiwifruit slice. Remarks: "in a bar, a tavern, or cantina. Nothing gets them worked up like that Funky Cold Medina." . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe (Serves Two) Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce blue Curaçao o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o champagne Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except champagne over ice. 2. Divide into chilled champagne flutes. 3. Top with champagne. 4. Garnish with lemon peels. Remarks: This is more of a cocktail with champagne than a champagne cocktail. It also can be enjoyed before and after not just at the witching hour. We'll never tell. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces blue Curaçao o Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o rosemary sprig Method: 1. Pour Curaçao over ice in a collins glass. 2. Top with ginger beer and stir gently. 3. Garnish with rosemary sprig. Remarks: We feature many drinks mixed with ginger beer. Some of them are classics. All of them are delicious, but none of them are better balanced than this. The bitter orange of the Curaçao is a great match for ginger beer. Don't forget the rosemary. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 splash blue Curaçao o ½ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: Q’s drink. The one he would drink several of while anxiously waiting for the safe return of Bond’s latest Aston Martin. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 3 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 splash blue Curaçao o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in chilled martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: This is definitely a cocktail not a martini. It looks good served in a martini glass but it’s a cocktail. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o ½ ounce blue Curaçao o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce orgeat syrup o 1 dash agave syrup Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: This is more conventional than the Blue Bird Cocktail. Lemon plays a big role and everything else blends with it to make it a pleasant and easy to drink cocktail. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce blue Curaçao o 2 ounces Sauvignon Blanc o champagne Method: 1. Combine first three cocktail ingredients in a champagne flute or cocktail glass. 2. Top with champagne. Remarks: An interesting cocktail for the party after the ceremony. It's drier than most champagne cocktails. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Heaven’s Door Cask Strength Straight Bourbon o ¼ ounce blue Curaçao o ½ ounce Galliano o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except Curaçao and soda over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Top with ginger beer leaving room for the floater. 4. Float Curaçao on top of the drink. Remarks: A significant change from the original rum based recipe. We thought Heaven’s Door would be appropriate in more ways than one. We were right. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¾ ounce blue Curaçao o 1 ¼ ounces whole milk o ¾ ounce whipping cream o 4 ounces cold coffee or espresso Garnish o whipped cream Method: 1. Combine milk and cream in a Collins glass. 2. Add cracked ice to fill the glass about 75% full. 3. Slowly add Curaçao. 4. Slowly add coffee. 5. Top with whipped cream. 6. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: This is a fun to make and fun to drink caffeinated cocktail. Enjoy. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail       o lime zest o salt o 1 ½ ounces 1800 Silver tequila o ¾ ounce blue Curaçao o 1 ½ ounces fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce agave syrup Garnish o lime wheel Method: 1. Moisten rim of a martini or margarita glass and invert the glass into a shallow dish containing a mixture of lime zest and salt to coat the rim of the glass. 2. Shake remaining cocktail ingredients over ice. 3. Strain into prepared glass. 4. Garnish with lime wheel. Remarks: Pleasant, pretty, and pretty much what you would expect from a salty, citrusy, and blue, tequila cocktail. . . .