Episode Transcriptions
Drinks all around!
Black-capped Vireo with Samantha Hauser
Black-capped Vireo
Ingredients
1 oz Blanco Tequila
1/2 oz Chambord
Splash of Lime Juice
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Directions
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1. Carefully pour Chambord in shot glass
2. Slowly pour Lime Juice on top of Chambord
3. Slowly pour Tequila on top of Lime Juice
4. If made properly, there should be defined layers
5. Drink in one shot to create a Black-capped Vireo!
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Magnificent Frigatebird with Jennifer Bristol
Magnificent Frigatebird
Ingredients
Fresh mint leaves
2 ounces Tito’s Vodka
1 ounce fresh lime juice
2–3 teaspoons simple syrup
1 ounce strawberry puree (or strawberries)
Ice
Club soda
Directions
1. Add the mint leaves, vodka, lime juice and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker.
2. Muddle the mint and strawberries.
3. Add 1 cup of ice and shake.
4. Strain into a tall glass filled with ice.
5. Top with club soda, and garnish with mint, lime wedges, and strawberries.
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the vodka!)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher with Marisa Oliva
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Ingredients
1 oz vodka
1 oz lemon juice
8 oz club soda
Juice from half a peach (or ¼ cup peach nectar)
Ice​
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Directions
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1. Fill a glass with ice.
2. Add vodka and lemon juice, then top with soda water.
3. Juice a peach into the glass
4. Stir gently and serve.
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out vodka)
Lammergeier with
Suzy Buttress
Lammergeier
Ingredients
8 cups cold water
1 1/2 teaspoon orange blossom water
3/4 cups fresh lemon juice (or the juice of 8 lemons)
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh mint
3/4 cup granulated sugar
8 oz vodka
Blood Orange slices
Crushed ice
Directions
1. Add the water, fresh lemon juice, orange blossom water, and mint in a pitcher. Stir well.
2. To serve, fill glasses with ice, pour 1 oz of vodka in each glass, and fill with lemonade.
3. Serve immediately and garnish with blood orange slices and a sprig of mint, if desired.
(Mocktail version: leave out the vodka)
Ingredients
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Dark Rum
¼ oz Galliano
2 oz Orange Juice
1 oz Pineapple Juice
Juice from ½ lime
Ice
Directions
1. Squeeze lime into a shaker
2. Add juices, rums, and galliano
3. Shake well
4. Strain into a glass with ice
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rums and galliano, add a dash anise flavoring and vanilla to your fruit juices)
Yellow Warbler with
Chidi Paige
Ingredients
1 oz Vodka
1 oz hazelnut liqueur
1 oz coffee liqueur
1 oz half and half
Caramel sauce
ice
Directions
1. Prepare an old-fashioned glass by drizzling with caramel sauce, fill with ice.
2. In a shaker, mix together vodka, hazelnut liqueur, coffee liqueur, and half and half with ice.
3. Shake shake shake
4. Pour into prepared glass and top with caramel sauce, garnish with a gummy worm, if you like
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(Mocktail adaptation: not sure of an adequate replacement for vodka or these liqueurs)
American Woodcock with Orietta Estrada
Ruddy Turnstone with Monica Iglecia
Ruddy Turnstone
Ingredients
1/2 oz Frangelico
1/2 oz Fireball
1/2 oz Kahlua
1/2 oz Crème de Cacao
Coffee
Whipped Cream
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Directions
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1. Combine Frangelico, Fireball, Kahlua, Crème de Cacao in a warm mug.
2. Fill remainder with coffee.
3. Top with whipped cream!
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet with Stephanie Seymour
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ingredients
1 oz vodka
1/4 cup sugarfree red bull
½ cup Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice
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Directions
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1. Fill glass with ice
2. Pour in vodka, red bull, grapefruit juice
3. Stir and enjoy!
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the vodka!)
Indigo Bunting with Bridget Butler
Indigo Bunting
Ingredients
1 shot cranberry juice cocktail
1 shot blue curacao
Fill champagne/sparkling wine
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Directions
1. Mix together the cranberry juice and blue curacao into a cocktail shaker with ice
2. Strain into a champagne flute
3. Top off with champagne
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(Mocktail adaptation: not available for this one)
Ingredients
1 cup of coffee
Preferred amount of ½ and ½
1 oz Fernet
½ oz simple syrup
1 squirt lemon juice
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Directions
1. Brew a cup of coffee.
2. Pour in the ½ and ½ to your liking, fernet, simple syrup, and a squirt of lemon juice.
3. Stir and enjoy
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the fernet, I am not sure of an adequate non-alcoholic substitute that will have a similar flavor.)
Chuck-will's-widow with Kate Dolamore
Ingredients
½ cup apple juice
½ oz blue curacao
Fill with preferred light beer (pilsner, lager, blonde, etc)
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Directions
1. Pour the apple juice and blue curacao into a pint glass
2. Fill with your preferred light beer
3. Gently stir
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(Mocktail adaptation: use ginger beer and Monin or Torani Blue Curacao that is non-alcoholic)
Brown Pelican with Andrea Carpio
Ingredients
1 oz light rum
1 oz vodka
½ oz cream of coconut
1 oz half and half
Handful of chocolate chips
ice
Directions
1. Pour ingredients into a shaker
2. Shake, shake, shake
3. Strain into a glass
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(Mocktail adaptation: not sure of an adequate replacement for rum or vodka)
Snowy Owl with Stephanie Lopez
Shoebill with Emilie Chen
Shoebill
Ingredients
3 oz Green Chartreuse
2 cups Iced Tea
1 1/2 cups Pineapple Juice
2 oz Lime Juice
Ice to fill
Swedish Fish
Directions
1. Fill fishbowl with ice and chill.
2. Pour in chilled Green Chartreuse, pineapple juice, lime juice, and then iced tea.
3. Stir mixture.
4. Pour in several Swedish fish and garnish with one.
5. Grab a partner and start drinking!
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the chartreuse)
Bee Hummingbird with Karina Sanchez
Bee Hummingbird
Ingredients
1.5 oz white rum
½ oz lime juice
½ oz lemon juice
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp water
Ice
Directions
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1. Melt honey in water
2. Mix all ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice cubes
3. Shake well
4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rum and use soda water instead)
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock
with Megan Shersby
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock
Ingredients
1 shot rum
½ cup guava juice
½ cup orange juice
1 tb grenadine
Juice from ½ lime
Mint leaves
Ice
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Directions
1. Muddle mint leaves in the bottom of a glass.
2. Fill glass with ice.
3. Pour in guava and orange juice, rum, grenadine, and juice the lime.
4. Give it a stir and garnish with an orange slice and mint sprig
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rum)
Ingredients
½ cup lemonade
¼ cup ginger beer
1 oz rum
splash Blue Curacao
1 Tb Grenadine
Ice
lemon
Directions
1. Fill rocks glass with ice
2. Pour in lemonade, blue curacao, and ginger beer
3. Carefully pour in grenadine so it sinks to the bottom
4. Garnish with a lemon slice
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the rum, use Monin Blue Curacao which is non-alcoholic)
Superb Fairywren with Cheryl Hogue
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Pisco
.25 oz Lime Juice
2 oz Mango Juice
Ginger Beer
Ice
Directions
1. Fill glass with ice.
2. Pour in the Pisco, lime juice, mango juice, and fill with ginger beer.
3. Gently stir.
4. Enjoy!
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(Mocktail adaptation: leave out the pisco)
Torrent Duck with
Ana Amable
Ingredients
8 oz Hot Chocolate (I used Swiss Miss and Milk)
1 oz Bailey's Irish Cream
1 oz Coffee Liqueur
Toasted Marshmallow
Directions
1. Make the hot chocolate
2. Stir in liqueurs
3. Garnish with the toasted marshmallow
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(Mocktail adaptation: use Irish cream flavored syrup and coffee instead of the liqueurs)
McKay's Bunting with Etta Cosey
Ingredients
3 oz guava nectar
3 oz orange juice
2 tb grenadine
1 ½ oz spiced rum
Maraschino cherries
Ice
Directions
1. Fill the glass with ice
2. Pour in guava nectar, orange juice, spiced rum, and grenadine
3. Gently stir
4. Garnish with cherries
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(Mocktail adaptation: use ginger ale in place of the rum)