34 St. Louis Cocktails You Should Try

Each week RFT food & drink blog Gut Check features a cocktail worth trying with its Hump-Day Cocktail Suggestion. We've collected all of them here for a St. Louis booze cruise, via these snapshots of St. Louis cocktail culture. Take a spin through these while you practice your impression of Jon Hamm as Don Draper glaring into space.

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Cleveland-Heath's "The Matador", a drink that highlights reposado tequila & jalapeno.

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Brio Tuscan Grille's "Dirty Martini (with Cougar)" is made with Sobieski vodka, dry vermouth, a splash of olive juice and two bleu-cheese-stuffed queen olives. The olive juice and vermouth make the vodka go down easier, and the olives take on a pungent bite if you let them soak up some vodka before you eat them.

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Blood & Sand's "No Rain" contains Hendrick's gin, lime juice, grapefruit juice, agave syrup, the Big O ginger liqueur and orange cream citrate bitters, and the whole mogilla's topped with sparkling wine.

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Olio's "Emerson" is a Thinking Man's Cocktail

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Tripel's "Smoke Wagon" Cocktail Billows Bourbon, Chocolate and Maple Syrup

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Sasha's on Shaw's "Tom Selleck" Will Put Some Hair on Your Chest

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Taste's Nameless, Squash Puree-Based Cocktail Is Halloween in a Glass

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Little Country Gentleman's "37 1/2" Cocktail Burns So Good

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Water Street Cafe's "Vieux Carre" Cocktail is a Punch of Whiskey and a Whisper of New Orleans

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Dressel's "Dark and Stormy" is Perfect Cool Weather Drinking

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The Libertine's "Elvis Costello Lost in Missouri" is "an English cordial" with a Missouri twist.

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Fitz's "Schuman Mule": Bartender Brian Schuman made us what he called the Schuman Mule (for no reason other than the fact that he invented it on the spot) with Fitz's ginger beer, vodka and lime juice.

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Three Kings' Pink Gin Julep is a mixture of Bombay Sapphire gin, Chambord, club soda, pink lemonade and some muddled mint. It looks and tastes like spring. And now that the sun is out and the snow is melting, it's time to (finally) celebrate the change of season.

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Bar Napoli's "Han Bomb"is an electric-blue shot that looks more like radioactive chemical waste than fruity booze, but don't be fooled by its appearance. It's a mixture of Hypnotiq, Three Olives Cherry and Blue Curaçao, with a little Red Bull kicker. It's wildly popular among the regulars, and, Gut Check is forced to admit, actually kind of delicious.

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