Mixed drinks may contain more than one serving of alcohol and take even longer to metabolize.

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Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

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Unlike the blancos mixtos which are usually gulped down in shot glasses or poured into sugary mixed drinks, aged tequilas are also easier on the body.

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Born from a need to re-create mixed drinks in perfect proportion, Bartendro uses food-grade tubing, pumps and custom-built electronics to pipe liquids out with a measurement accuracy of a milliliter.

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While the Echo Boomers the large generation of Americans in their 20s and very early 30s do not slosh the stuff as enthusiastically as previous generations (they tend to prefer vodka-based mixed drinks), there are signs of life in the domestic market.

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The company also said that sales of ready-mixed alcoholic drinks in Europe remained disappointing.

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An E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that began at a fair in New York state in late August has laid low more than 1, 000 people, most of them because they drank contaminated water that was mixed with drinks or made into ice.

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Each students consumed "Four Loko, " while some mixed the canned drinks with other alcohol, including vodka, the report said.

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Drinks (usually based on brown spirits and bitters) are mixed and poured into a wooden barrel, allowing the flavours to fuse.

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Annie's Bar, where hacks and members mixed, was notable for the perpetual presence of one monumentally tedious Labour alcoholic who, in between cadging drinks, spent his time pestering reluctant journalists to take him out to dinner.

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