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Flighty Tips for the Kitchen Bartender | Mandolin Slicer for More Fresh Flavor

Like the aesthetically pleasing curves of the instrument of the same name, the Mandolin slicer is a great tool for creative drink making. It quickly and easily slices all those tasty fresh ingredients like apple and cucumber into a uniform and sexy slice that gives more for you muddle in taste, looks, and style, and vastly streamlines the prep required for today’s culinary cocktails.

Assembling Mixed Drinks | Miss Flighty’s Tips for the Home Bartender

Miss Flighty offers up advice about the actual mixing of cocktails and other spirit based beverages. Her technique contradicts the majority of working Bartenders and Mixologists, but we all know she’s never been “just one of the boys”. For Flighty, creating drinks starts with a base and then modifiers such as vermouths, liqueurs, and fresh fruit and herbs come later. Check it out and see what you think.

Cocktail Bitters | Miss Flighty Discusses 4 Notable Brands

In this Miss Flighty reviews four key brands of aromatic cocktail bitters-Peychaud’s, Angostura, Fee Bros. Orange, and Regan’s Orange Bitters #6-and highlights the salient elements each one brings to our best loved drink recipes.

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Mixology Tips for the Home Bartender | Pouring with Jiggers for Better Cocktails

Miss Flighty gives up some serious mixology tech with step by step instructions on bar pouring; It can be a pretty complex chicken or egg-type situation, citrus first?? Sugar? Egg White? Booze? Bitters? What to do? Not to worry we’ve got your back.

Muddling Tips 4 the Home Bartender | Does Bigger make it Better?

So what is muddling? Why do bartenders do it? Is it dangerous? Difficult? Why not use a blender instead? What are all these “weeds” doing floating in my drink? What makes a good muddler? Miss Flighty address these issues in this episode on Muddling.

How to Stir a Cocktail Like a Bartending Bad-Ass

How to properly stir a cocktail, its a little tricky at first but super fun, and it makes you look like you know what you are doing.

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The PSAde | World’s Friendliest Vodka Aperol Refresher

The PSAde is a vodka Aperol refresher with rounds of tangerine, blood orange, and cucumber muddled in for the brightest freshest flavor.

Flighty Easy Bloody Mary Mix Recipe : How to Drink Making

Flighty Bloody Mary Mix | Easy Recipe with Bold Spicy Flavor

Miss Flighty offers up her Bloody Mary Mix recipe, chock full of savory flavor, and easy to make at home. Horseradish, garlic powder, cilantro, celery salt, hot sauce, chilies, lime make up this fiery blend is more than a hangover remedy, its a meal!

Flighty Bloody Mary Vodka Infusion | Ancho Chilies, Herbs, & Cilantro

An intriguing flavorful home made infused Bloody Mary Vodka that is simple to make at home. The recipe uses an assortment of herbs and spices, such as Ancho Chilies for their rich smokiness, garlic, cilantro, lemongrass, coriander, juniper berries, and bay leafs combine to make a “pepper” vodka that in contrast to most commercial varieties that are simply hot, it can also be enjoyed on its own as a shot for the adventurous drinker.