Drink Recipes
November is Pomegranate Month, wait how’d they get a whole month! Anyways, we do love pomegranates and Bourbon, who doesn’t? To satisfy our need to combine these two ingredients, the folks at Maker’s Mark came up with this tasty twist on the classic Whiskey Smash.
Pomegranate Smash
Ingredients:
2 parts Maker’s 46
1 part Pomegranate Juice
1/2 part honey
1/2 part fresh squeezed lemon juice
Garnish with pomegranate seeds
Directions:
Add all ingredients to a … Read more
This Thanksgiving, be grateful for cocktails! The cranberry-honey syrup is also delicious combined with sparkling water or club soda for a non-alcoholic alternative.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz vodka
1 1/2 oz cranberry-honey syrup*
1 oz fresh lemon juice
Directions:
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
*Cranberry-honey syrup
Ingredients:
1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup water
Directions:
Bring all ingredients to a boil. Reduce … Read more
Ingredients:
1/2 oz Zacapa Rum
1 oz sparkling wine
1/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1/4 oz simple syrup
3 drops apple cider vinegar
Spritz of Allspice Dram
Directions:
Combine Zacapa Rum 23, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, and apple cider vinegar into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well. Strain into a coupe glass. Top with sparkling wine and an atomized spritz of Allspice dram.
Courtesy of Zacapa Rum.… Read more
Ingredients:
2 parts Basil Hayden’s Bourbon
3/4 parts Heering Cherry Liqueur
1 dash Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Aromatic Bitters
2 parts Milk Stout Beer
Fresh nutmeg
Directions:
Combine Basil Hayden’s, cherry liqueur and bitters in a mixing glass.Add ice and shake.Roll in the milk stout beer. Strain into an old fashioned glass with ice. Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg and cherry on top.
Created by Charles Joly. Courtesy Basil Hayden’s Bourbon.… Read more
Ingredients:
1 ½ parts Tequila Avión Anejo
1 part Apple-flavored liquor (can use apple from concentrate as a sub)
¼ part pear juice
Splash of egg white
Dash of fresh lemon
Pinch of ground cinnamon
Directions:
In a shaker add all ingredients over ice then shake and strain. Harvest Moon can be served either straight up or on the rocks and garnish with a thinly sliced pear.
Courtesy of Tequila Avión Anejo.… Read more
Ingredients:
1 oz Baileys Original Irish Cream
.5 oz iced coffee
1 oz Bulleit Bourbon
1/8 oz 2:1 raw sugar syrup
3 mint sprigs
Directions:
Mix coffee and sugar syrup together and set aside. In a highball glass, layer 2 mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass, then top with crushed ice. Add Baileys Original Irish Cream, Bulleit Bourbon, and simple syrup. Swizzle together, leaving the mint at the bottom of the glass. Float … Read more
Ingredients:
1 oz Moon Mountain Organic Vodka
1/4 oz sweet vermouth
1/4 oz Zwack
5 dashes Angostura Bitters
Directions:
Pour Ketel One Oranje, sweet vermouth, Zwack and 5 dashes of Angostura Bitters into a rocks glass filled with ice. Stir gently. Garnish with lime.
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Ingredients:
1 1/4 ounces Ketel One Oranje™ Flavored Vodka
1/4 ounces Grand Marnier®
1/4 ounces Fresh lemon juice
Ginger ale
Directions:
Pour Ketel One Oranje, Grand Marnier and fresh lemon juice into rocks glass over ice. Top off with ginger ale. Stir gently. Garnish with orange peel.
Courtesy of Ketel One Vodka.… Read more
Ingredients:
1 ¼ oz. Russian Standard Vodka
¾ oz walnut liqueur
¾ oz irish cream liqueur
¼ oz Butterscotch Schnapps
1 scoop Peanut Butter
1 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz heavy whipping cream
Directions:
Stir peanut butter with Russian Standard Vodka, simple syrup and heavy whipping cream until peanut butter dissolves. Add remaining ingredients and shake with ice in a shaker. Strain into a peanut butter rimmed, chilled cocktail glass.
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Champagne cocktails and Thanksgiving go hand in hand. The light and refreshing bubbles are a good match for the heavy food! Get in the spirit with this pumpkin adaptation of the French 75 cocktail.
Ingredients:
1 oz gin
1 1/2 oz pumpkin puree
2 pinches pumpkin pie spice
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
Sparkling wine
Directions:
In a cocktail shaker with ice, vigorously shake the gin, puree, spice, lemon juice and … Read more