FLORENCE FENNEL COCKTAIL
Ingredients
Serves 1
2 oz (60 ml) Hendrick’s small batch gin
½ oz (15 ml) Martini Bianco
¼ oz (8 ml) Fennel Syrup
2 dashes lemon bitters
1 dash Okanagan Spirit Taboo absinthe
Instructions
- Stir all ingredients on ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with thinly sliced fennel bulb strips and wide lemon zest with oils expelled over the drink. Discard zest.
- To make FENNEL SYRUP: In a saucepan, bring 1 cup (250 ml) water to a boil and add 1 cup (250 ml) thinly sliced fennel bulb. Let sit for 15 minutes. Strain through a cheesecloth. Add equal parts sugar to fennel water. Store in a glass bottle. Keep refrigerated.
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BITTER DAISY
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Long Table London Dry gin
½ oz (15 ml) Cointreau
½ oz (15 ml) Lavender Bitter Orange Cordia
¾ oz (22 ml) fresh lemon juice
dried candied orange slice, for garnish
Instructions
- Shake all ingredients on ice and fine strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with dried candied orange slice.
- To make LAVENDER BITTER ORANGE CORDIAL: Heat 1 cup (250 ml) water to a boil. Remove from heat and add 2 tbsp (30 ml) dried lavender buds and let sit for 10 minutes. Strain out buds and add equal parts honey to lavender water (about 1 cup/250 ml each). Add ⅓ cup (75 ml) orange bitters to the Lavender Honey Syrup. Store in a glass bottle, keep refrigerated.
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CRISP, WHITE SANGRIA
Ingredients
Serves 1
2 cups (500 ml) white grape juice, divided
¼ cup (60 ml) berry sugar
1 bunch fresh mint
1 x 750 ml bottle dry white wine
1½ cups (375 ml) unsweetened apple juice
1 lime, juice only
2 limes, thinly sliced
1 cup (250 ml) seedless green grapes, halved
1 x 750 ml bottle soda water, chilled
1 green apple, cored, cut into thin wedges
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine 1 cup (250 ml) white grape juice and berry sugar, stirring to dissolve sugar. Remove from heat and stir in 2 mint sprigs. Bring to room temperature.
- In a glass jug or container large enough to hold 8 cups (2 L), combine cooled and remaining grape juice with several more sprigs of mint, wine, apple juice and lime juice. Refrigerate overnight for flavours to meld.
- When ready to serve, remove mint sprigs. Place several lime wedges in a sangria pitcher. Add half the grapes and a couple mint sprigs.
- Pour half the sangria mixture into pitcher and top with chilled soda water.
- Serve sangria over ice in cocktail glasses, garnish with lime and apple wedges and a sprig of mint. Makes about 10 cups (2.5 L)
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BUCK STOP
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) cinnamon-infused Jim Beam
1 oz (30 ml) lemon juice
1 oz (30 ml) cranberry-orange simple syrup
1 egg white
2 dashes orange bitters
cinnamon and sugar, to dust top
cinnamon sticks and cranberries, for garnish
Instructions
- Place 2 cinnamon sticks into Jim Beam bottle. Let infuse overnight.
- Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass (except cinnamon and sugar) and shake without ice. Add ice and shake again after egg white has been emulsified. Fine strain into a coupe glass. Dust top with cinnamon- sugar mixture and, using a kitchen torch, carefully brûlée top of drink. Garnish with cinnamon sticks and cranberries, if desired.
- To make SIMPLE SYRUP: In a saucepan over low heat, mix together equal parts sugar to water to cranberry juice and add zest of 1 orange. Remove zest and allow mixture to cool before using.
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BUFFALO STANCE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Zubrówka vodka
½ oz (15 ml) Alvear Medium Dry sherry
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) allspice syrup
2 dashes Mystic Caravan Smokey Pear bitters
fresh slices of pear, for garnish
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a mixing glass and stir. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with fresh slices of pear.
- To make ALLSPICE SYRUP: In a saucepan, combine 2 cups (500 ml) sugar to 2 cups (500 ml) water to 1 tbsp (15 ml) ground allspice. Bring to a boil and let cool.
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KOHANA (LITTLE FLOWER)
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Bulleit rye
1 oz (30 ml) Takara Plum wine
¼ oz (7 ml) Ardbeg 10-year-old Scotch
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) hibiscus syrup
1 egg white
2 dashes Bittered Sling Plum and Root Beer bitters
hibiscus flower, for garnish
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake without ice. Add ice and shake again after egg white has been emulsified. Fine strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a hibiscus flower.
- To make HIBISCUS SYRUP: In a saucepan over low heat, mix 2 cups (500 ml) sugar to 2 cups (500 ml) water and bring to a boil. Add 1 cup (250 ml) of dried hibiscus flowers. Allow to steep for 20 minutes. Strain out flowers and allow mixture to cool before using.
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PLANTATION TRADITIONNELLE
Ingredients
Serves 1Instructions
- Place sugar cube and bitters into a mixing glass and muddle. Then squeeze orange peel to release oils into the mixing glass. Slowly add rum, while stirring, gradually adding ice. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Strain into rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wheel and a maraschino cherry.
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HOT TO TROT HOLIDAY PUNCH
Ingredients
Serves 4 to 6
16 oz (500 ml) Brugal Ron Añejo rum
2 oz (60 ml) Père Magloire Fine Calvados
10 oz (300 ml) organic apple cider
2 cinnamon sticks
6 whole cloves
3 star anise
half an apple, sliced
dried apple crisps and cinnamon sticks, for garnish
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, combine all ingredients and bring to a low simmer. Serve warm in punch or cocktail glasses. Garnish with dried apple crisps and cinnamon sticks, if desired.
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LOW TIDE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Sailor Jerry Spiced Navy Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Giffard Ginger of the Indies
¼ oz (7 ml) Okanagan Spirits Poire Williams
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura bitters, to top
ginger beer, to top
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a shaker (except for ginger beer and bitters). Strain into a mason jar over fresh ice and top with ginger beer and bitters.
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SWANN SONG
Ingredients
Serves 1Instructions
- In a mixing glass, stir Goldschläger with ice to chill. Strain into a champagne flute. Top with Piper-Heidsieck Brut. Soak sugar cube with 3 dashes of Plum & Rootbeer bitters and slowly lower into the champagne flute with a long spoon.