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Barqs & Brandy - Cocktail Recipe

Wondering how to make Barqs & Brandy? Cocktail Builder will help!

Ingredients

  • 12 oz of barq's root beer (alt: ginger beer)
  • 1 of small lemon (alt: lemon juice)
  • 2-4 oz of Brandy

Instructions

Pour a good Brandy into large glass filled with cubed ice.

Hold glass at slight angle while filling up glass with Barqs.

Stir lightly.

Test before squeezing small lemon slice.

Best in Collins or HighBall glasses. Needs to be Barq's, or another strong root beer (not A&W or Hensen's). Barq's is also one of few root beer's with caffeine, giving you the perfect kick.

More cocktails with ginger beer

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Gin Gin Mule
Ginger Kiss
Ginger Messiah
Foghorn
Dark and Stormy
Whiskey Ginger
Moscow Mule
My Sharona
El Diablo
Ginger Shandies
Double Cider-Bourbon Punch
Hard Eight
Swedish Mule
Mile High Mule
Porch Swing
Passionfruit Mezcal Mule
Root 56
Chilled Cider Punch
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