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.75 oz freshly squeezed lime juice
.5oz agave nectar
1.5 oz Hennessy VS
2 dashes of Chipotle Tabasco
1 oz Moet Brut Champagne
Preparation
Build all ingredients except the champagne add ice shake and strain into a martini glass. Top with one ounce of champagne and garnish with an aurora pepper.
Heavenly Horchata
1.5 oz Gran Cententario Reposado
.5 oz Kahlua
2 oz Horchata
Add all of the ingredients to a mixing glass; then add ice. Shake and strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with grated cinnamon
WATERMELON-GINGER MARGARITA
3 cubes of (tequila infused) watermelon MUDDLED w/ 1/2 teaspoon of diced ginger
.5 oz of ginger simple syrup
1.5 oz watermelon infused white tequila
.75 oz of fresh lemon juice
shake and serve over CRUSHED ice in a rocks glass Read More...
Hemingway Daiquiri
1 1/2 oz. 10 Cane rum
1/2 oz. Luxardo maraschino cherry liqueur
1 oz. fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
1/2 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice
1/2 oz. simple syrup
garnish: lime wheel and black cherry
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel and black cherry on a skewer.
Jacob's Creek Winter Warmer
Ward
off the winter chill with a hand-warming glass of
mulled wine. A European tradition dating back
centuries, warmed, spiced red wine appears as Gløgg in
Scandinavia, Glühwein in Germany, Wassail in England,
Vin Chaud in France and Vin Brule in Italy. As
simple as heating wine with sugar and spice, the recipe
below is an easy starting point for creating your own
holiday mulled wine
tradition.
1 bottle Jacob's Creek Shiraz
1/2 cup sugar
3 cinnamon sticks
3 whole cloves
1 tbsp grated nutmeg
1/2 vanilla bean
1 tbsp orange zest
1 cup Martell VS
Pour the wine into a large pot heat over a low flame. Add sugar and spices as the wine begins to warm. Stir until sugar is dissolved and add brandy. Heat thoroughly but do not boil! Add orange zest. Let steep for 45 minutes over very low heat. More sugar may be added to taste at this time —stir well to dissolve. Serve hot and garnish with an orange slice. To intensify flavors, steep in the refrigerator overnight and serve hot the next day.
Herradura Agave Kiss
2
oz Tequila Herradura Silver
1
oz white crème de cacao
1
oz double cream
1/2
oz Chambord
In
a shaker with ice, add tequila, white crème de cacao,
double cream and Chambord. Shake for 15 seconds. Pour
into a chilled cocktail glass, rimmed with white
chocolate, add a spear of fresh raspberries, and
serve
1 1/2 oz Partida Reposado Tequila
1 1/2 oz fresh Ruby Red Grapefruit juice
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1/2 oz French Cassis.
Shake the first 4 ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Dribble the 1/2 oz French Cassis down the inside of the glass so it will settle at the bottom.
(Recipe by King Cocktail Dale De Groff)
CENTENARIO TEN GRAND MARGARITA
2 oz Pineapple infused Gran Centenario Plata
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz Fresh Lime
To that add:
1/2 oz fresh lemon
The above is shaken and strained into a martini glass half rimmed with salt. Then, Gran Marnier Cuvee du Centenario is poured slowly into the cocktail – it sinks to the bottom of the glass. The result is a layered margarita, with a half rim of salt,
garnished with a triangular pineapple slice.
Belvedere
Cucumber Ginger Martini
Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz Chilled Belvedere Vodka
Slide of ginger (a penny size)
Several slices of cucumber
Muddle
the cucumber and the slide of ginger in Boston shaker
glass to extract the juice & flavor from the
vegetable. Add the Belvedere Vodka and shake with ice.
Strain through a tea strainer to chilled Martini
glass. Garnish with a slice of cucumber.
Oprah’s Pomegranate Martini
1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
2 oz. Citron vodka OR white tequila
1 oz. Cointreau
Cup of ice
Optional: Splash of sparkling water
Optional: Squeeze of lemon
Shake
ingredients in a shaker and put in chilled martini
glasses (serves 2). Put pomegranate fruit into glass as
garnish. Recipe courtesy of Oprah Winfrey
4 parts ABSOLUT RUBY RED
1 part Simple Syrup
2 parts Orange Juice
2 parts Club Soda
1 part Vanilla Ice Cream
Stir vodka, simple syrup, and OJ with ice in a shaker. Strain into a fountain glass. Top with club soda. Add ice cream.
2 parts Grey Goose La Vanille
1⁄2 part Green Chartreuse®
1 part simple syrup
11⁄2 part pear nectar
1 wedge of lemon
Slice of pear
In a cocktail shaker filled with ice squeeze the lemon and drop it in. Add the rest of ingredients and shake vigorously until the outside of the shaker is frosted and beaded with sweat. Strain into wine glass filled with ice and garnish with slice of pear.
2 oz MIDORI
1 oz Vodka
Top with Orange Juice
*Build over ice
(Imbiber says: "This is so simple to make, yet so difficult to fathom ... actually, Freud said that. And I think he was talking about sex. Not sure whether or not the Midori folks realize they misspelled "Melon," but I left it as is in the hopes of embarrassing them.")
1 ½ oz. 10 Cane Rum
4 pieces of cucumber, peeled
8-10 mint leaves
½ lime cut into wedges
1 oz. simple syrup
Chilled ginger ale
Garnish: Cucumber slice
Glass: Highball
In a tall glass muddle cucumber, lime and simple syrup; add ice and 10 Cane Rum. Fill with cracked ice and top with ginger ale. Stir gently. Garnish with a slice of cucumber.
1 liter Maker’s Mark
Lots of fresh spearmint
Distilled water
Granulated sugar
Powdered sugar
1. To prepare the mint extract, remove about 40 small mint leaves – wash and place in a small mixing bowl. Cover with 3 ounces of Maker’s Mark. Allow the leaves to soak for 15 minutes. Then gather the leaves, vigorously wring the mint bundle over the bowl of whisky. Dip the bundle again and repeat the process several times. Then set aside.
2. To prepare the mint julep mixture, pour 3 ½ cups of Maker’s Mark into a large glass bowl or glass pitcher. Add 1 cup of the simple syrup to the Maker’s Mark.
3. Now, begin adding the mint extract a tablespoon at a time to the julep mixture. You are looking for a soft mint aroma and taste – generally about 3 tablespoons.
4. Pour the whole mixture back into the empty liter bottle and refrigerate it for at least 24 hours to “marry” the flavors.
5. To serve the mint julep, fill each glass half full with shaved ice. Insert a sprig of mint and then pack in more ice to about an inch over the top of the cup.
When frost forms on the cup, pour the refrigerated julep mixture over the ice and add a sprinkle of powdered sugar to the top of the ice. Then serve.
U.S. Mint
(Created by Jim Hewes, mixologist at the Round Robin Bar in Washington, D.C.)
2 parts Knob Creek Bourbon
1 part DeKuyper Triple Sec
1 teaspoon sugar
6 mint sprigs
Splash of DeKuyper Pucker Raspberry Schnapps
Fresh raspberries and blueberries to garnish
Add sugar, bourbon and mint into an old-fashioned glass with crushed ice and muddle the fruit. Garnish with berries and mint.
1 oz. Cointreau
2 oz. London dry gin
1 oz. Benedictine
1 oz. Pomegranate syrup
Juice of ½ lemon
Combine gin, Benedictine, pomegranate syrup and lemon juice in an ice-filled shaker. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Top with a Cointreau float.
1 1/2 oz. Canadian Mist
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
3 1/2 oz. Lemon-Lime Soda
1 1/2 oz. Lemonade
Mix Canadian Mist and Blue Curacao in a glass and stir in lemonade and soda. Pour into a tall glass with ice. Garnish with lemon wheel or peel.
“Three
Wise Men”
1/3
shot Jack Daniels
1/3 shot Jim Beam
1/3 shot Johnnie Walker
Layer in a shot
glass: Jimmy, Jack, then Johnnie.
1.5 oz. Irish whiskey
.5 oz. simple syrup
4 oz. hot coffee
dollop of whipped cream
dash of green creme de menthe
Pour the whiskey, simple syrup and coffee into an Irish Coffee glass; stir briefly. Spoon the whipped cream onto the coffee so that it floats on top. Drizzle the creme de menthe over the cream.
2 parts Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey
1 part Kahlua
1/2 part Mint Schnapps
Serve over ice in a Rocks glass
Garnish with candy cane
1 part Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey
1 sliced lemon
2 lumps of sugar
Fill to top with hot water
Combine all ingredients and stir well.
Serve in a glass mug and garnish with a cinnamon stick
