Welcome to Mixed Flix! In this episode, we share a movie we love, but just can't watch again. Too sad, too much machete, too is this my life?

The Picks…

Green Room [2015] (Anthony)

Inside Llewyn Davis [2013] (Rachel)

What Dreams May Come [1998] (Tracey)

AI [2001] (Nick)

Our mixologist Tracey served up a "less is more" cocktail…

The Hurricane

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces light rum
• 2 ounces dark rum
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 1 ounce orange juice
• 1/2 ounce passion fruit puree
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 1 teaspoon grenadine

Steps:

• Add the light and dark rums, lime and orange juices, passion fruit puree, simple syrup, and grenadine into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
• Strain into a tall glass over fresh ice.
• Garnish: lemon half-wheel
• Garnish: lime half-wheel

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Welcome to Mixed Flix! On this very special back-to-school episode, our guest host Kelly asks ‘What’s your favorite school movie?’.

The Picks…

Billy Madison [1995] (Anthony)

Summer School [1987] (Rachel)

Election [1999] (Tracey)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High [1982] (Nick)

Our mixologist Kelly served up a teacher-inspired "after three o'clock" cocktail…

The Appletini

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces sour green apple schnapps
• 1 1/2 ounces gin
• ice
• green apple slices
• lemon juice

Steps:

• Add the green apple schnapps, gin, and fill the shaker halfway up with ice. Cap the shaker and shake briskly.
• Pour the strained cocktail into a martini glass.
• Garnish with green apple slices that have been brushed with lemon juice.

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Welcome to Mixed Flix! On this episode, our gracious host Anthony asks ‘What’s your favorite Stephen King adaptation?’.

The Picks…

Carrie [1976] (Nick)

The Mist [2007] (Vincent)

Dolores Claiborne [1995] (Rachel)

To honor Mr. King, we served up tall frosty glasses of his fictional cider/beer hybrid from the 'Dark Tower' book series called Graf. For our version of Graf we mixed together hard apple cider and spiced winter lager. You can mix your own with any hard cider and beer you want.

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Welcome to Mixed Flix! On this episode, our gracious host Tracey asks ‘What’s your favorite underrated movie?’.

The Picks…

In Bruges [2008] (Nick)

Near Dark [1987] (Anthony)

Nightmare Alley [2021] (Rachel)

Our mixologist Tracey dusted off the coupe glasses and served up a criminally underrated cocktail…

The Sidecar

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces cognac
• 3/4 ounce orange liqueur
• 3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• Garnish: lemon sugar on the rim and an orange twist

Steps:

• Coat the rim of a coupe glass with lemon sugar (lemon zest mixed with sugar).
• Add cognac, orange liqueur and lemon juice to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
• Strain into the rimmed coupe glass.
• Garnish with an orange twist.

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Howdy partners and welcome to Mixed Flix! On this episode, our gracious host Rachel asks ‘What’s so great about Westerns?’.

The Picks…

The Good Dinosaur [2015] (Tracey)

Django [1966] (Anthony)

The Quick and the Dead [1995] (Nick)

Our mixologist Rachel is shaking things up with an Old West classic cocktail…

The Stone Fence

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces bourbon
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• Apple cider, to top
• Garnish: 1 mint sprig

Steps:

• Bourbon and Angostura bitters to a glass filled with ice
• Add cider and stir
• Garnish with a mint sprig

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Tis the season! On this episode, our gracious host Nick asks ‘What is your quintessential holiday film?'

The Picks…

Christmas Evil [1980], aka Better Watch Out (Anthony)

Christmas with the Campbells [2022] (Tracey)

Home for the Holidays [1995] (Rachel)

Nothing says holidays like a murderous Santa, horny parents, and a Thanksgiving food fight!

Our mixologist Tracey has stirred up two special holiday cocktails, because one might not be enough to survive the holiday season…

Vodka Cranberry Twist:

1. In tumbler or highball glass rimmed with lime sugar...
2. 2 oz. Vodka (we used Chopin single-ingredient potato vodka, use what you like)
3. 4 oz. Cranberry juice
4. Splash of ginger ale
5. Add ice, garnish with cranberry and a lime wedge, stir, and enjoy

Peppermint Irish Whiskey:

1. In a tumbler glass...
2. 2 oz. Irish whiskey (we used Slane triple-casked blend for the vanilla notes, use what you like)
3. ¾ oz. Peppermint schnapps
4. Add ice, garnish with crushed candy cane pieces in the glass and a whole candy cane on the rim, stir, and enjoy

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For this episode, our gracious host Anthony asks 'What scares you?' inspired by your go-to spooky season film.

The Picks…

Jaws (Nick)

The Exorcist (Tracey)

The Babadook (Rachel)

What do these films have in common? What makes them so terrifying? Find out on our FIRST EPISODE!

Anthony has paired these frights with a classic Smokey Old Fashioned. The only fog you run towards…

Ingredients:

• 2 jiggers (3 oz) Benchmark bourbon (substitute with your favorite brand)
• 1/2 jigger (3/4 oz) maple simple syrup
• 2 dashes of Fee Brothers Old Fashion Aromatic Bitters
• 2 dashes of Fee Brothers Black Walnut Bitters
• Garnish: fresh orange peel twist, one dark maraschino cherry (Luxardo or Rex brands recommended), and a good amount of smoke (we smoked with a combination of apple wood, cherry wood, whole cloves, and cinnamon stick)

Steps:

1. Add large ice cube to tumbler glass
2. Dash bitters over large Ice cube
3. Pour simple syrup and bourbon into glass and stir
4. Twist orange peel over glass and run the orange peel around the rim of the glass
5. Add orange peel and maraschino cherry to glass
6. Smoke the hell out of it using a cocktail smoker kit and serve

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