Easy Drink Recipes With Vodka

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An Apple martini (Appletini for short) is a cocktail containing vodka and one or more of apple juice, apple cider, apple liqueur, or apple brandy.

This drink, properly called an Adam's Apple Martini, was created in 1996 at Lola's West Hollywood restaurant.

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Recipe

In its purest form, it would contain:

Typically, the ingredients are shaken or stirred and then strained into a cocktail glass.

Variations

A sweet and sour mix can also be added before shaking.

Optionally, vermouth may be included, as in a regular martini.

A common variation of the appletini is the "Rumpletini", with a light rum in place of the vodka.

A similar cocktail can be made with Martini Bianco white vermouth and apple juice in a long drink glass filled with ice.

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In popular culture

• this drink, the "apple martini," could not have been invented in 1996 as claimed above because it is mentioned as the drink served to Jeff Bailey/Markham in Jacques Tourneur 1947 classic noir Out of the Past.
• The appletini, which he invariably stipulates should be "easy on the tini", is the favorite alcoholic drink of John "J.D." Dorian in the sitcom Scrubs in which it is often characterized as being somewhat effeminate.
• Along with a rum and diet coke, it is also the favorite drink of Alan Harper from Two and a Half Men.
• In the 2010 film The Social Network, in the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink. In real life, Zuckerberg never had an appletini until he attended the film's premiere. After seeing the film, Zuckerberg made the appletini Facebook's official drink.
• In the US television series Impractical Jokers, one prank set in a bowling alley included Joe approaching a group of men and offering to buy them a round of Appletini.
• In the US television series "Mr. Robot", Elliot meets with Mr. Robot at a bar and proceeds to order an Appletini.
• Ted Mosby orders an Appletini upon informing Robin's boyfriend he is not gay.

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