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[4) Try cheap booze. Remember, cocktails were invented to mask the flavor of lousy booze, so in an awful lot of cocktails the delicate flavors of expensive booze are almost lost in the mixing of ingredients. For something simple like a Martini, where there are only two ingredients, well the quality of the source booze is paramount. But in a Cosmopolitan, where there are four ingredients, I've found it's possible to mix a Cosmo with cheap supermarket-type booze and come up with something that's quite as good as any $25 Cosmo I've had in Manhattan made with Grey Goose. Honest.
I agree with Satan's Sin, unfortunately, to make a lot of good rum drinks, you need Lemon Hart Demerara and some decent jamaican rum. The only tropical drinks I can get away with using sheap booze are Chi-Chi's (well vodka, preferably Ralph's "Prestige" brand, bourbon drinks like the Port Light (Evan Williams or Ancient Age) and gin drinks, although the signapore sling uses a lot of expensive liquers if depending on your recipe. Perfecting a great Navy grog using Pusser's Rum, Lemon Hart and Appleton probably costs me three dollars a drink!
Astronaut
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