11860 What’s the Best Order of Cocktail Ingredients? Wed Sep 16 11:25:00 -0700 2009 http://www.chow.com/stories/11860 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:25:00 GMT Should ice go last? Mixers first? Should ice go last? Mixers first? http://www.chow.com none 14 CHOW Tip 1

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What’s the Best Order of Cocktail Ingredients?

A. J. Rathbun, author of CHOW-approved cocktail books Good Spirits and Luscious Liqueurs, shares the proper order of ingredients for making a cocktail: Start with ice. Add your base alcohol, then any secondary liqueurs, then your juice or mixers. Rathbun’s most recent book is Dark Spirits.

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