Warm Wishes

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

Hot Buttered Brugal

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

Take Me Out To The Moneyball-game

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

Bridesmaid Sidecar

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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Supernatural Sip

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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Peanutty Buddy

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.

Courtesy of Frangelico Hazelnut Liqueur.… Read more

Amor Caliente

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Revolucion Blanco
.5 oz Luxardo Amaretto
.5 oz orange juice
.5 oz honey

Directions:
Build ingredients in glass of your choice — we like an Irish coffee mug.  Add 2.5 oz. of very hot water from the kettle.  Stir.  Add “horsesneck” long orange peel studded with dried cloves. 

Courtesy of Tequila Revolucion.… Read more

Spiced Toddy Revolucion

1.5 oz Revolucion Reposado
.25 oz Allspice Dram
.5 oz maple syrup
.5 oz orange juice

Directions:
Build ingredients in glass of your choice. Add 3 oz. of very hot water from the kettle. Stir.  Garnish with an orange peel under a floating star of anise.

Courtesy of Tequila Revolucion. … Read more

New Year’s Cheer

Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces Baileys Original Irish Cream
3 ounces brewed chai tea.
Raw brown sugar
Cinnamon stick

Preparation:

Brew a pot of chai tea.
Add two teaspoons of raw brown sugar for each cup of tea. Stir until dissolved.
Pour chai tea and Baileys Original Cream into a coffee mug.
Stir with cinnamon stick.

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The Hendrick’s Holiday Fix

Ingredients:

1 oz. Hendrick’s gin
1 oz. St-Germain liqueur
3 / 4 oz. lemon juice
1 / 2 oz. simple syrup
Sparkling wine
Lemon wedge

Directions:

Combine all ingredients except sparkling wine in mixing glass. Shake with ice and roll into Collins glass. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

* recipe courtesy of Celebrity Cruises… Read more