Drink Recipes
I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful holiday event last week at a quaint speakeasy-style bar called The Basement Tavern at Victoria in San Monica, California. April Gallegos, the Marker’s Mark Distillery Diplomat for Southern California, conducted a tasting of unaged to overaged bourbon and shared some history and background on the brand. Have you ever wondered what the “SIV”, the star and the circle mean on a Mark’s Mark label? I learned that … Read more
Ingredients:
2 oz Brugal Añejo Rum
1 teaspoon of honey
½ teaspoon of butter
4 oz hot apple cider
½ oz Allspice dram by St. Elizabeth
Directions:
Place boiling water into Irish coffee mug or goblet to heat glass while preparing drink and cover the open of glass to really keep hot. In mixing glass add rum, honey, butter, cider and allspice dram. Stir vigorously then pour into heated mug, grate fresh cinnamon on top … Read more
Ingredients:
2 oz Dragonfruit-infused Purity Vodka
3 oz sparkling water
3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Directions:
Fill a highball glass with ice, dash bitters, then add infused Purity and top with soda. Garnish with a slice of dragon fruit.
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Ingredients:
2 oz Purity Vodka
1 oz pomegranate juice
1 oz coconut water
2 dashes Bitter Truth orange bitters
Directions:
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice, stir until ice cold. Strain over fresh ice in a highball glass, garnish with a slice of dragon fruit.
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Ingredients:
1 oz Frangelico
2 oz Wild Turkey 101
1 oz Amaretto
.25 oz squeezed lemon juice
1 pinch salt
4 oz soda water
Handful of Cracker Jack, finely crushed
Directions:
Rub half a lemon around the rim of a glass and place into crushed Cracker Jack to coat the rim. Combine Wild Turkey, Frangelico, Amaretto, lemon juice and salt in a shaker. Mix and strain into a glass with rocks and top with soda … Read more
Ingredients:
2 oz Camus VS Elegance Cognac
1 oz sweet & sour mix
1 oz Grand Marnier
Directions:
Combine all in a shaker with ice; strain into a small rocks glass with salted rim. Garnish with a lime wedge.
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Ingredients:
1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka
5 oz Regatta ginger beer
1 lime wedge
Directions:
Build cocktail over ice in your Russian Standard Copper Mug Add 1.5 oz of Russian Standard Vodka. Squeeze a wedge of lime. Top with 5 oz of Regatta ginger beer.
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Ingredients:
1 part Lucid
1 part White Creme de Cocao
1 part Coconut Milk
Drizzle of Black Sambucca
Directions:
Combine Lucid, White Creme de Cocao and Coconut Milk in a shaker filled with ice. Shake till Frothy and strain into a short rocks glass over ice. Drizzle Black Sambucca down the side of the glass until it floats on the bottom and diffuses through the cocktail.
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Ingredients:
1 oz Russian Standard Vodka
1 1/2 oz Lucid Absinthe
1/4 oz Siracha Hot Sauce
Directions:
Shake all ingredients well with ice. Top with Killian’s Irish Red Beer and a hot pepper.
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Calling all peanut butter lovers! This is the perfect cocktail for you…
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Frangelico Hazelnut Liqueur
3 oz cold milk
1 oz. crème de cacao
1/2 oz smooth peanut butter
3 oz lemon lime soda
Directions:
Add all items into a shaker and shake well, strain over ice in a Collins glass. Add the soda, and serve.
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