Craft Central Station urges you to be responsible party hosts. Make sure your guests don't drink and drive. You have several great options: pre-arrange for some party goers to be designated drivers; pre-arrange taxi rides home; when guests ask what they can bring to the party, tell them they can bring $20 for a taxi ride home; hire drivers (local high school kids are great choices).

10 Alcoholic Drinks

1. Champagne and Orange Juice (Mimosas)

Place a sugar cube in a champagne flute. Fill glass half full with fresh squeezed orange juice and top off with champagne.

2. Champagne and Cranberry Juice

Fill a champagne flute 1/2 full with cranberry cocktail and top off with champagne.

3. Rum Punch

48 oz can of red tropical fruit punch
6 oz can of frozen orange juice concentrate (undiluted)
one 6 oz can frozen lemonade or limeade concentrate (undiluted)
750 ml bottle of white rum

Mix all ingredients and chill until cold. Serve as is or add one 750 ml bottle of sweet red sparkling wine (asti spumante or sangria).

4. Wine Cooler de Cassis

750 ml dry to medium white wine, chilled
750 ml sparkling water, chilled
one can frozen raspberry concentrate

Mix concentrate with wine until concentrate is dissolved. Add sparkling water. Substitute your favorite flavor concentrate for the raspberry.

5. Sangria

1 litres dry red wine
2 cups lemon juice
1 litre club soda
4 cups orange juice
1/4 cup cointreau
2 oranges, thinly sliced
2 lemons, thinly sliced

Combine wine, lemon juice, orange juice, cointreau, and sliced oranges and lemons in a large punch bowl. Place in the fridge for several hours for flavors to combine. Just before serving add club soda and stir.

6. Mom's Slurpee

Mix 3 cups of sugar with 6 cups of water in a saucepan. Boil for seven minutes and then cool.

To the sugar syrup add, 48 oz of pineapple juice, 48 oz unsweetened orange juice, and 6 oz of lemon juice.

Add 26 oz of vodka and a mickey of white rum.

Freeze.

To serve, fill a tall glass 1/2 full and top with 7-Up.

7. Cranberry Vodka Punch

8 cups cranberry cocktail
26 oz vodka
2 cups ginger ale
2 cups club soda

Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl and add ice. Garnish with whole cranberries and lemon slices.

8. Island Rum Punch

3 cups white rum
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup grapefruit juice
1 2/3 cups pineapple juice
2 2/3 cups water
1/3 cup sugar

Dissolve sugar in water. Blend with all the juices and the rum. CHill.

9. Spiced g Nog with Rum and Brandy

1 1/2 cups spiced rum
12 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brandy
6 cups milk
1 cup whipping cream
1 tsp. ground nutmeg

Combine egg yolks and sugar in a large bowl using an electric mixer at low speed.

Increase to high speed, beating approximately 12 to 15 minutes until mixture is thick and lemon colored.

Very slowly add rum and brandy, beating constantly. Cover and chill 2 hours.

30 minutes before serving, add milk and nutmeg to egg mixture.

In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. In a small bowl, beat whipping cream until peaks form.

In a punch bowl, gently fold egg whites and whipping cream into yolk mixture until blended. Sprinkle with more nutmeg.

10. Peach Punch

1 1/2 26oz bottles vodka
13 oz peach schnapps
3 cups lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
three 26 oz bottles ginger ale

Mix vodka, schnapps, lemon juice and sugar in a punch bowl. Slowly add ginger. Float lemon slices on top for garnish.

How to serve champagne

Chill champagne in the fridge or in a bucket that's 1/4 full of ice and 1/4 full of water. Champagne should never be colder than 6 degrees Celsius. Don't ever freeze champagne; you'll ruin the flavor of the wine.

To uncork the champagne, tilt the bottle at a 45 degree angle away from yourself and others. Untwist and remove the wire hood. Grasp cork between your forefinger and your thumb. Twist SLOWLY in ONE DIRECTION so that the pressure in the bottle helps release the cork.

Serve in a champagne flute to preserve the bubbles.

7 Non-Alcoholic Drinks

1. Red Punch

Simmer 32 oz of apple juice with 3 cinnamon sticks and 12 whole cloves for 10 minutes. Cool and refrigerate.

Discard spices. Add 1 cup chilled orange juice and 28 oz of 7-Up or Sprite.

2. Snow Punch

3 cups mashed bananas (4 - 5 bananas)
1 cup lemon juice
2 cups sugar
2 cups light cream
42 oz 7-Up or Sprite
2 cups lemon sherbet
1/3 cup flaked coconut

Beat together mashed bananas, lemon juice and sugar and chill thoroughly. Pour banana mixture into punch bowl. Stir in cream. Slowly pour in 7-Up. Float spoonfuls of lemon sherbet on punch. Sprinkle coconut on top.

3. Cranberry Cocktail

Combine 8 cups of apple juice, 4 cups of cranberry juice, 2 cups of orange juice and 7 cups of ginger ale. (Pre chill all the ingredients and combine just before serving).

4. Egg Nog

4 cups cold milk
4 eggs
4 tbsp. icing sugar or honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cracked ice
nutmeg

Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake well. Or combine in a bowl and blend with a hand mixer.

5. Frothy Lime Punch

8 cups pineapple juice
2 envelopes lime Koolaide, unsweetened
2 cups sugar
1 quart lime sherbet
8 cups ginger ale

Put pineapple juice and lime drink mix into punch bowl. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Spoon sherbet into punch bowl 15 minutes before serving then slowly add ginger ale. Let stand for 15 minutes.

6. Russian Friendship Tea

2 small packages orange Tang
2 small packages lemon Tang
1/2 cup instant tea (100% tea)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves

Mix together. To serve, place 2 tsp. of mix in a cup and fill with boiling water.

7. Spiced Coffee

1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup instant coffee
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
dash of salt
8 cups milk

Combine brown sugar, coffee, nutmeg and salt in a saucepan. Stir in milk until blended. Heat thoroughly, but do not boil.