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How To Of The Day: Make A Cocktail With Snow

How to make a cocktail with snow for your Christmas party this winter.

Enjoy!

Make a Cocktail With Snow

In the colder months, it’s often warm cocktails that come to mind for an evening drink. But there’s another way to jazz up those winter refreshments: snow. That’s right, you use the fluffy white stuff itself in place of ice, and get a unique, slushy cocktail.

This ingredient is not just a fanciful gimmick either; bartenders in urban centers around the country have started to take advantage of the unique properties of snow to create memorable delicious drinks for their patrons.

Just mix up your favorite cocktail — be it a Manhattan or a martini — and pour it over a glass full of snow. You’ll impress your guests, and enjoy a tasty twist on your favorite drinks.

To make your cocktail extra wintery, try the following recipe:

  • 1oz Winter Jack
  • 1oz Gentleman Jack whiskey
  • 2oz ginger beer
  • Apple slices to garnish

Combine the Winter Jack and whiskey in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake it up, and pour into your glass over the snow. Top with ginger beer and apple slice, and enjoy!

Illustration by Ted Slampyak

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How To Of The Day: Do More Than One Stinking Pull-up

Want to be able to do more than one pull-up. Follow this routine and you’ll be doing multiple sets of ten pull-ups in no-time flat.

Pull-ups are a great exercise for building upper body strength, but they’re also really hard to do if you’re not already used to doing them. If you’re not able to do more than one pull-up already, this video will show you how.

The video, from The Art of Manliness, gives you an easy routine to follow. If you can’t pull off a single full pull-up, the video suggests starting from the raised position and slowly lowering yourself, in a “reverse pull-up” motion. Once you’ve managed to work your way up to a single pull-up, the video suggests the following routine over time to increase your reps:

  1. Week 1: Twice a week, do 12 sets of 1 pull-up with a 45 second break in between each set.
  2. Week 2: Twice a week, do 6 sets of 2 pull-ups with a 45 second break between each set.
  3. Week 3: Twice a week, do 4 sets of 4 pull-ups with a 45 second break between each set.
  4. Week 4: Twice a week, do 3 sets of 6 pull-ups with a 45 second break between each set.
  5. Week 5: Twice a week, do 5 sets of 10 pull-ups with a 45 second break between each set.

If you feel like you can’t handle the pull-ups at any point during this regiment, dial it back and start from an easier step. Over time this should help you build your upper body strength and make it easier to do more pull-ups.

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How To Of The Day: Use The Public Restroom Like A Gentleman

While it may seem that the laws of etiquette only apply to dinner parties and theater outings, a certain decorum should also prevail even in a public restroom.

How to Use the Public Restroom Like a Gentleman

While it may seem that the laws of etiquette only apply to dinner parties and theater outings, a certain decorum should prevail even in a public restroom. Today we illuminate the unspoken (and too often unfollowed) code of conduct for using the bathroom like a gentleman.

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