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We entertain friends and family over the holidays and what always works for me:

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doesn't work for everybody. :wacko:

Maybe we can collect a bunch of alternatives? :ph34r:

Holiday Mimosa

6 Tbl Grand Marnier

2 Tbl granulated sugar

1 bottle of Champagne

1 cup fresh orange juice

Pour the Grand marnier in a small bowl, sugar in a saucer. Dip champagne glasses in the GM and then in the sugar to form a crust on the lip. Fill each glass with three parts Champagne and 1 part OJ.

Poinsettia Cocktail

1/4 cup Vodka

1/4 cup Champagne

1/2 cup cranberry juice

crushed ice

2 strips orange zest 1/4 by 2"

Combine all the liquids in a large red wine glass and add the ice and stir till chilled. Twist the both orange pcs. over the glass and drop in.

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Anchor Brewing Co - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Ale

Sierra Nevada - Celebration Ale (touted by many as possibly the best beer in North America)

Three Floyds - Alpha Claus

Mrs. BigDave perfers cranberry martinis (Stoli, Chambord and cranberry juice) and she also likes Fresca (Coke product, not available everywhere), cranberry juice and vodka. It is pretty tasty.

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If you got to go with the hard stuff...try to drink something good..

Burbon...Crown

Rum...Capt Morgan

Tequilla...Patron

Blended Scotch...Famous Grouse

Single Malt...ANY

Gin...Bombay Saphire

Vodka...Stoli

Champagne...Tattinger Brut Couvee (for less than 50 per bottle)

Premimum Champagne...Crystal Extra Brut

Wine...too many to list.

Just MHO B)

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I don't drink much of the hard stuff anymore, but keep some for guests who do...enjoy a good bottle of wine pretty often and some champagne on special occasions..have a bottle of Dom '97 that we will try on Christmas Eve..... :)

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Samuel Smith Winter Welcome! I usually bring a case in to share with the boys at work, which reminds me, I'd better get by the store tonight and get it before Friday.

I'll always take their Imperial Stout too, quite possibly my favorite beer in the world! Mmmm...beer!

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On Christmas I will be choosing from among the following:

Tequilla - Cuervo Gold (not trendy but I like it)

Scotch - Lagavulin (16 yr old)

Bourbon - Maker's Mark

Tennessee - George Dickle #12

Any of three flavors of my own homebrew

One or more of the gazillion bottles of wine in the wine "cellar"

One year I made frozen margaritas and half the batch got a bit of genadine in it. Layered them in the glasses for that Red/Green holiday cheer thing. After the second batch I stopped layering bothering with grenadine. Good times...good times... :D

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One of the world's best is made right here in TEXAS!

Tito's Vodka ;)

Tito's is The Bomb.

Absolutely my favorite vodka, hands down. Perfect for sippin'. And at room temperature, not from the freezer (to mask the taste). B)

-Chet

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