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.
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KYLO
Ingredients
Serves 1
½ oz (15 ml) Luxardo Sambuca Passione Nera
2 oz (60 ml) Barbieri Aperol Aperitivo
¾ oz (22 ml) Cointreau
1 oz (30 ml) lemon juice
black Twizzler straw, cut on each end, for garnish
Instructions
- Pour Sambuca into a Collins glass. Fill glass with ice. In a mixing glass, shake Aperol, Cointreau and lemon juice with ice and strain over ice in the Collins glass. Garnish with a black Twizzler.
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FIELD CIDER
Ingredients
Serves 1
¾ oz (22 ml) Hennessy VS cognac
1 oz (30 ml) Giffard Ginger of the Indies
¼ oz (7 ml) lemon juice
1 oz (30 ml) Angry Orchard Crisp Apple Cider, to top
1 cinnamon stick and slices of lemon, for garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing glass, stir Hennessy, Giffard Ginger liqueur and lemon juice with ice to chill. Strain into a large beer glass and top with the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple Cider. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.
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ORCHARD FIRE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Los Siete Misterios Doba-Yej Mezcal
1½ oz (45 ml) Fireball
3 oz (45 ml) William’s Sir Perry Pear Cider
¼ oz (7 ml) grenadine syrup
Instructions
- Fill a tall glass with crushed ice. Pour the mescal and Fireball over crushed ice and top it off with pear cider. Add more crushed ice to completely fill the glass. Drizzle grenadine over the crushed ice to finish.