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Amy Traynor

Amy Traynor is a cocktail blogger and photographer. Since 2018, she's shared classic, modern, and her own cocktail recipes to her audience on Instagram (179k followers) and Moodymixologist.com. She's the author of The Essential Bar Book for Home Mixologists and Essential 3-Ingredient Cocktails. Amy lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters.

This tall, citrusy sipper is a lighter, blue-r version of the infamous Long Island Iced Tea. Lemon-lime soda takes the place of cola, and blue curaçao adds a pop of summery color. No, the AMF isn’t a refined cocktail. It isn’t fancy, or complicated. It’s a simple drink that is sweet, sour, and most importantly …

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Missionary's Downfall is a lesser-known classic tiki cocktail that is incredibly refreshing and fairly light. Unlike many tiki drinks, Missionary’s Downfall is not overly boozy and doesn’t require too many oddball ingredients! One of the things that makes the tiki genre so fun is the layers of interesting flavors from various rums, exotic syrups, and …

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This all-natural pineapple ginger syrup is the quickest, easiest recipe you’ll find! With just three ingredients and about five minutes, you’ll have a sweet, tropical syrup that’s great in cocktails, mocktails, iced teas, or lemonade. It’s also an integral ingredient in some fun Starbucks copycat recipes like the Pineapple Matcha Drink or the Guava Passionfruit …

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