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Hey there fellow drinkers, embibers, travllers and wanderers. We're on the hunt for some great writers to add some guest blog posts to our site.

We wanted to bring great content to our already great database and technical tools, but we need your help! When we started out on the site we ha ...

14.05.13 
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History of the Hot Toddy

Ask the average person if they’ve ever heard of a Hot Toddy, and they’re likely to say they have. Ask them what a Hot Toddy is, and you may get a variety of answers. The cocktail doesn’t have a standard recipe. It needs to contain some type of liquor; a sweetener, such as honey ...

13.05.13 
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Fresh Fruit Juice In Cocktails

Facing a large party or in search of convenience, the cocktail connoisseur can be tempted by bottled juices. They boast impressive shelf lives, simplicity and no messy fruit peels to contend with. However, in a battle of flavour, there is no contest. Fresh juice will always yield a more delicious ...

02.05.13 
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Ooooo Our New Promotional Video

Its been a busy old week here at MMAC HQ, but we can finally show off our lovely promotional video that we've finished up a couple of days ago. We're super excited to get this out there and start bringing in more users to the site, helping more people create great cocktails. Here is is. Watch, en ...

18.04.13 
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ITS RELEASED!!!

We are proud, oh so proud, to release the NEW Make me a Cocktail, which we've cleverely named version 2.5. The new update comes with a massive sleuth of added functionality, new imagery, new additions, as well as a whole host of tweaks, bug fixes, minor alterations and security updates. With so m ...

03.04.13 
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MMAC v2.5 Is Round The Corner

Maybe you've noticed from some of our social network postings, or maybe you read an earlier blog post that we were creating a new version of Make Me A Cocktail, or maybe, just maybe, you're reading this because you're waiting fro the kettle to boil. Either way, we wanted to showcase to you some o ...

19.03.13 
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What Are The Different Types of Cocktail Shakers?

James Bond’s "shaken, not stirred" reference is synonymous with the history of cocktail shakers. Having been greatly influenced by the golden years of the cocktail himself, author Ian Fleming released his first Bond adventure during the re-emergence of the 5 O’clock cocktail hour, so ...

26.02.13 
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If you like the PiƱa Colada

Just two years after Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States, on August 15, 1954, at the Beachcomber Bar in the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, bartender Ramón "Monchito" Marrero supposedly created the now-famous “...

13.02.13 
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New Version In The Works

At Make Me A Cocktail HQ over the past few months we've been brainstorming exactly what else we'd like on the site, and how to move the site forward to a new version. We've come up with some great ideas (no really, we're super stoked about implementing some of them), but we're only one part of th ...

25.01.13 
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