Best Cocktail Recipes

Ingredients

2 oz Cognac

Alize Emerald Directions

Combine both ingredients in equal parts in an old-fashioned glass, and serve.

Serve Alize Emerald in a Old-Fashioned Glass

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups Vodka

1/2 cup Sugar

1 inch (Broken) Cinnamon

1/4 cup Water

1 tbsp (chopped) Almonds

1 (Cracked) Allspice

3 tbsp (dried and chopped) Angelica Root

1 drop Green Food Coloring

1 drop Yellow Food Coloring

6 (crushed) Anise Seeds

1/8 tsp Coriander

1 tbsp (Chopped) Marjoram

Angelica Liqueur Directions

Combine all herbs, nuts and spices with vodka in a 1 quart or larger aging container. Cap tightly and shake daily for 2 weeks. Strain through a fine muslin cloth or coffee filter, discarding solids. Clean out aging container. Place liquid back in container. Place sugar and water in saucepan and stir to combine over medium heat. When sugar is completely dissolved, set aside and let cool. When cool combine with food coloring and add to liqueur liquid.

Serve Angelica Liqueur in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Rum

(crushed) Ginger

(Fill to Top) Water

1/2 tsp Honey

The Hot Churchill Directions

Let crushed ginger sit in the rum for as long as possible, preferably overnight. Add honey to the glass. Top with hot water.

Serve The Hot Churchill in a Coffee Mug

Ingredients

1 qt Rum

1/2 lb Sugar

1 glass Orange Juice

10 drops Almond Extract

1 glass Milk

Lemon Peel

Almond Shrub Directions

Put into gallon or half-gallon jar the spirits, thin lemon peel, orange juice, and sugar. Now take the essence of bitter almonds (you can use any amount you please) and add it to the glass of milk. Mix thoroughly and pour into the jar. Cover, put in a warm place (65-70 degrees fahrenheit), and keep it there until the milk has curdled.

Serve Almond Shrub in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 oz Black Haus

1 oz Smirnoff Orange Twist Vodka

5 oz (hot) Coffee

1/2 oz (fresh) Whipping Cream

Black Haus Orange Coffee Directions

Combine Black Haus blackberry schnapps and Smirnoff orange twist vodka in a glass mug. Top with hot coffee and whipped cream, and serve.

Serve Black Haus Orange Coffee in a Coffee Mug

Ingredients

1 oz Goldschlager

1 oz Black Haus

5 oz (hot) Coffee

1/2 oz Whipping Cream

Black Haus Mitten Directions

Combine Black Haus blackberry schnapps and GoldSchlager in a glass mug. Stir, top with hot coffee and whipped cream, and serve.

Serve Black Haus Mitten in a Coffee Mug

Ingredients

1 oz Cognac

1 oz Creme de Bananes

Banana Cognac Directions

Pour the Marie Brizard banana liqueur into a cocktail glass. Add the cognac (or substitute brandy), allow to clear, and serve.

Serve Banana Cognac in a Cocktail Glass

Ingredients

2 oz Grain Alcohol

1 oz Gold Rum

1 tsp Sugar

6 oz Espresso

Spanish Gentlemen Directions

Pour grain alcohol into a cup. Add espresso, sweetened to taste. Add Ron Barcelo Imperial rum, mix with a spoon, and serve.

Serve Spanish Gentlemen in a Pint Glass

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Bourbon

1/2 tsp Sugar

1/2 oz (steamed) Milk

4 oz Espresso

Tennessee Coffee Directions

Put Jack Daniel’s whiskey into a mug and add sugar as you would with your coffee. Brew coffee, preferably with an espresso machine, but any good, dark coffee works. If you have an espresso machine, froth and steam milk. If not add cream to taste. Tastes like a good, strong coffee with a hint of Jack.

Serve Tennessee Coffee in a Coffee Mug

Ingredients

1 1/2 dl Beer

1 1/2 dl Sugar

5 liters Water

1 qt Lemon

1 1/2 dl Brown Sugar

5 Raisins

2 tsp Yeast

Sima Directions

Boil water, sugars, beer and the yellow part of the lemon’s peel. Let the mixture cool down. Peel the white part of the lemon’s peel carefully and cut the fruit part of the lemon into small pieces, then add to sima.

Serve Sima in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 fifth Scotch Whiskey

1 1/2 cups Honey

2 tsp (dried and chopped) Angelica Root

2 2-inch (strips) Lemon Peel

1/4 tsp (crushed) Fennel Seeds

Scottish Highland Liqueur Directions

Combine all ingreds in aging container. Cover tightly and shake gently several times during the first 24 hrs. After 24 hrs, remove the lemon zest. Cover again and let stand in a cool, dark place for 2 weeks, shaking gently every other day. Strain through a wire sieve to remove the angelica root and fennel. Return to aging container, cover and let stand undisturbed in a cool dark place for 6 months. Siphon or pour clear liqueur into a sterile bottle. The cloudy dregs may be saved for cooking.

Serve Scottish Highland Liqueur in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

100 pint Vodka

1 cup Sugar

2/3 cup Maple Syrup

1/4 cup (grated) Orange Peel

Saurian Brandy Directions

Put orange rind in a half-pint jar with 1/4 cup vodka. Seal it and shake occasionally. Let it steep overnight.

Serve Saurian Brandy in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 oz Brandy

1 oz Cointreau

1 bottle White Wine

2 cubes Ice

2 tbsp Sugar

1 cup Lemon

1 Orange

1 cup Club Soda

Sangria Liqueur Classic Directions

Cut orance and half (1/2 into thin slices), and juice the other half of the orange. Cut the lemon into thin slices and combine with orange juice, wine, sugar, brandy and contreau. Chill. To serve, add ice and club soda, stir gently.

Serve Sangria Liqueur Classic in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

4 oz Brandy

1 1/2 liters Red Wine

1 cup Sugar

1 (Sectioned) Apple

1 (sliced) Lemon

1 (sliced) Orange

Sangria Liqueur – The World’s Best Directions

1. Mix ingredients together in a large container, stir, and let sit in a refrigerator for 18-24 hours.

Serve Sangria Liqueur – The World’s Best in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

2 bottles Red Wine

1 cup Sugar

Lime

Lemon

3 Oranges

3 Apples

2 cans Fresca

Sangria Liqueur – Sweet Directions

Melt the sugar in a couple of cups of hot water. I do this so I don’t end up with a lot of undissolved sugar in the end. Cut apples into small chunks (1″ or so)the apples absorb the wine the most, so I tend to use a lot of apples.

Serve Sangria Liqueur – Sweet in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 bottle Red Wine

1 cup Lemon Juice

1/2 cup Sugar

Cinnamon

1 cup Orange Juice

2 qt Clove

Sangria Liqueur Directions

Mix all together and put in the refrigerator till cold. Add cloves and cinnamon sticks to taste.

Serve Sangria Liqueur in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

2 qt Rum

3 lb Sugar

1 pint (Cold) Water

6 parts Oranges

1 pint Orange Juice

Rum Shrub Directions

1. Pare oranges very thinly and place the rinds into a gallon jar. Add their juice, one pint of cold water, and close the jar. Stand for three days, stirring occasionally.

Serve Rum Shrub in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

2 parts Vodka

1 1/4 parts Sugar

2 parts Raspberry Juice

Raspberry Cordial Directions

Combine all ingredients and stir until sugar is dissolved. Store in large bottles for 22 days. Pour into gift bottles and seal.

Serve Raspberry Cordial in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

2 cups Vodka

1/2 cup Brandy

2 cups Sugar

2 lb Plums

Plum Liqueur Directions

1. Wash plums and pat dry, cut in half or smaller, and pit. Place in an aging container, pour sugar over, and stir. Add vodka and brandy, stirring to partly dissolve sugar. Cap container and place in a cool, dark place for 2 months, stir occasionally.

Serve Plum Liqueur in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

2 cups Grain Alcohol

1 piece Water

1/2 lb (dried) Orange Peel

4 tbsp Caramel Food Coloring

1 pinch Cardamom

1 pinch Coriander

1 pinch Caraway

Orange Bitters Directions

1. Chop the orange peel finely and mix it with the herbs and alcohol. Let it stand for 15-20 days in a sealed jar, agitating it every day.

Serve Orange Bitters in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

Rum

1 cup Sugar

1 cup Butter

1 piece Water

2 cups Vanilla Ice Cream

1 cup Brown Sugar

60 g Nutmeg

Old Fashioned Hot Buttered Rum Directions

1. Combine sugar, brown sugar and butter in a 2-quart saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until butter is melted (6-8 min).

Serve Old Fashioned Hot Buttered Rum in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 piece (Scoured) Ginger

900 g Sugar

9 liters Water

2 liters Honey

4 liter Lemon

30 g Clove

60 g Yeast

Medd Directions

1. Spread the yeast on a piece of bread.

Serve Medd in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 liter Everclear

700 g Sugar

1 liter Water

7 dl Lemon

Limoncello Liqueur Directions

Soak skin of 7 lemons in alcohol for 2 days. Strain. Boil water and sugar and chill. Mix with alcohol. Store in the fridge.

Serve Limoncello Liqueur in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

4 dl Rye Whiskey

3 dl Sugar

5 liters Water

1 tbsp Yeast

Kotikalja Directions

Put rye malt and sugar in a bucket. Boil water and pour it in the bucket. Let the mixture cool down and drain filter it. Dissolve yeast in a bit of kotikalja and add it to kotikalja. Leave the bucket until next day in room temperature (20 C). Cool down the drink. Kotikalja stays drinkable 3-4 days stored in closed bucket or bottles in a cold place.

Serve Kotikalja in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 tbsp Pisco

Lime Juice

5 tsps Sugar

3 dl Egg

Leche de Monja Directions

Place whole eggs, in shell, (organic would be preferable) in a jar. Cover with lemon/lime juice. Seal the jar and refrigerate. Leave the eggs to marinate for 2-3 weeks. The shells should become soft. Place the eggs and juice in a blender and blend until smooth. Strain to remove egg membranes. Add sugar and pisco to taste.

Serve Leche de Monja in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1/5 part Vodka

4 cups Sugar

5 cups Water

15 zest Lemon

Italian Limoncello Directions

1. Wash the lemons with a vegetable brush and hot water to remove any reside of pesticides or wax. Carefully zest the lemons with a zester or vegetable peeler so there is no white pith on the peel.

Serve Italian Limoncello in a Beer Mug

Ingredients

1 oz Irish Cream

1 scoop Chocolate Ice Cream

3 oz Milk

1/2 oz Whipping Cream

Irish Shake Directions

Blend all the ingredients except the whipped cream in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Pour into a frappe glass (or similar), cover it with the whipped cream, and serve.

Serve Irish Shake in a Parfait Glass

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Coffee Liqueur

8 oz Chocolate Milk

Iced Fritter Directions

Stir the Tia Maria coffee liqueur and chocolate milk together with 3 ice cubes in a highball or other tall glass. Serve.

Serve Iced Fritter in a Highball Glass

Ingredients

1 oz Vodka

3 oz Orange Juice

3 oz Ginger Ale

Hot Summer Breeze Directions

Soak several slices of habanero pepper in the bottle of vodka for 3 months before using. It will give you that feeling of a summer hot breeze.

Serve Hot Summer Breeze in a Highball Glass

Ingredients

1 tsp (ground) Cinnamon

1/2 lb (Salted) Butter

1 tsp Vanilla

1 tsp (ground) Clove

1 lb Brown Sugar

1 tsp (ground) Nutmeg

1 tsp (ground) Cardamom

Hot Buttered Rum Batter Directions

Blend all ingredients in a food processer or mixer and store in the fridge or freezer. To make a drink add a shot of good dark rum along with 1 or 2 tbl spoons of batter to a mug of very hot water. Serve in irish coffee cup.

Serve Hot Buttered Rum Batter in a Irish Coffee Cup