My husband and I have become amateur bartenders.  Both of us like to create cocktails, though we each have our own methods.  For me, I try to create a theme for the dinner and drinks, so they coordinate.  I also strive to make my drinks light and not too sweet.  My husband takes more of a spontaneous approach.  He will review his ingredient options, grab a few that sound good, mix, and sample what he has created. Obviously with his method of  mixing, there have been creations that were failures, and others that have been great successes.  Recently, he has been...