Champagne and champagne-based cocktails shouldn’t only be reserved for your birthday or New Year’s Eve. They go with any celebration even if what you’re celebrating is another Friday finally arriving. Here are a few classic options for your next party.
Classic Champagne Cocktail
Ingredients:
• 1 sugar cube
• 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
• brut champagne
Instructions: Place a sugar cube in a chilled champagne flute, sprinkle it with two or three dashes of bitters, fill the glass with brut champagne, and squeeze a lemon twist on top.
Atomic Cocktail
Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 oz. vodka
• 1 1/2 oz. brandy
• 1 tsp. sherry
• 1 1/2 oz. brut champagne
Instructions: Stir the vodka, brandy, and sherry well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Add brut champagne.
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Ingredients:
• 2 oz. golden rum
• 1/2 oz. lime juice
• 1 tsp. honey
• 5 oz. brut champagne
Instructions: Mix rum, lime juice, and honey thoroughly with cracked ice in a chilled cocktail shaker, then pour unstrained into a Collins glass. Fill with champagne.