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Three Classic Cocktails, Revisited

Boozy bliss from your friendly resident vegan bartender

Want a cocktail veganized? Bought a bottle of something and don’t know what to do with it? Need a cool mocktail? Want to make your own liqueur? We’ll drink to that. Bartenderly is here to make all your vegan drinking dreams come true.

There are any number of classic cocktails named after our friends from the animal kingdom, and while downing one of them doesn’t necessarily mean you’re consuming animal products — unless your drink of choice is a Grasshopper, those things are loaded with cream — I nevertheless thought it would be fun to make you punched-up variations of some well-known examples. If you don’t have a cocktail shaker at home, and there’s no reason why you should, simply shake your ingredients in an empty, clean jar with the lid on, or any other small, likely-looking container. In all cases, 1oz = 1 shot = 30ml = 2 tablespoons. I used the website Barnivore as a reference here and highly recommend it for your own use — it’s a comprehensive listing of most available brands of alcohol and whether or not they’re vegan.

Many iterations of we’d now refer to as just “spirit and mixer” started life as the height of elegance. For example: the Horse’s Neck, which is just a brandy and dry with a…