Watch for bits of flying ice as the bartender chips smaller pieces from their custom-made ice blocks into a cocktail shaker.

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Pour all of this into a cocktail shaker and it simply points to the painfully slow economic recovery that Americans feel in their every day lives.

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To create solution A, our shaken sample, we poured 70 grams of vodka (just under 2.5 fluid ounces) into a standard metal cocktail shaker.

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It includes high-quality, professional grade tools that you'll see behind the bar of any craft-centric cocktail joint: a Boston shaker, a hefty Hawthorne strainer, an elegant Japanese bar spoon, a citrus squeezer.

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