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Holiday Kiss

Monday, November 23, 2015
Posted by Mike's Blogs

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Ingredients:

1.5 qts. simple syrup

.5 qts. Lusteau East India Sherry

1 qt. water

Freshly grated cinnamon and nutmeg

Cinnamon sticks, for garnish

Crushed ice

Whisk together all cocktail ingredients in a large punch bowl until combined. Garnish with cinnamon sticks and freshly grated nutmeg. Serve drinks individually over crushed ice and garnish with a cinnamon stick and more nutmeg.

Milk Punch

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Ingredients:
2 qts. Appleton Estate Special Reserve rum

2 qts. Duquesne Aged Rhum Agricole

1 gallon half-and-half

1.5 qts. coconut purée, such as Ponthier or Boiron

 

It’s rich and creamy with warming spices. Here, it gets a tiki twist with the addition of coconut purée and two different kinds of rum. This drink can be made as a single serving or in a large-format punch—both perfect for holiday entertaining.

Mulled Red Wine

Thursday, January 29, 2015
Posted by Mike's Blogs

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1 cup sugar

2 cups water

4 cinnamon sticks

4 cloves

2 lemons

1 bottle claret or Burgundy

Boil the water and cloves for 5 minutes. Then add lemon slices and let stand for ten minutes. Add wine and heat but don’t let boil. Serve hot.

Tom & Jerry

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1 teaspoon sugar

1 ounce brandy

1 egg, separated

1 ounce dark rum

hot milk or boiling water.

Mix’s yolk and egg together with sugar. Pour the brandy over rum. Pour the mixed egg , while stirring, hot milk and boiling water. Sprinkle with nutmeg.

Rum Toddy

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1 cube sugar

1 1/2 ounces dark rum

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1 cinnamon stick

lemon slice

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Place rum and sugar in coffee mug and fill with water. Place cinnamon stick and one slice of lemon to garnish. Stir and serve with spoon. Small pitcher or hot water on the side.

Port Wine Sangaree

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2 ounces port wine

1/2 ounce simple syrup

Pour over ice cubes in tall glass and stir. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.

Hot Buttered Rum

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hot buttered rum

1 teaspoon sugar

1 1/2 ounces dark rum

5 ounces boiling water

1 pat hard butter

nutmeg or cloves

1 cinnamon stick

Mix’s in the sugar, rum, and boiling water. Float pat butter on the surface and sprinkle nutmeg. Use the cinnamon stick as stirrer. This drink is popular during winter. Good for cold flu.

Gingerbread Martini

Monday, November 24, 2014
Posted by Mike's Blogs

Gingerbread Martini

Carry the flavor even further by dipping martini glasses in ginger liqueur and crushed gingersnaps.

Ingredients

Ginger liqueur

Crushed gingersnaps

2 tablespoons ginger liqueur

2 tablespoons vanilla-citrus liqueur

1 1/2 tablespoons coffee-flavored rum

1 tablespoon honey

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2 teaspoons whipping cream

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1 cup ice cubes

Pear-Basil Sipper

Pear-Basil Sipper 

Fresh basil and sweet pear-flavored vodka and nectar . Pear-Basil Sipper is the "pearfect" pick for holiday.

Ingredients
 

3 fresh basil leaves

1/2 teaspoon sugar

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1 cup crushed ice

4 tablespoons pear nectar

3 tablespoons pear-flavored vodka

3 tablespoons lemon-lime soft drink

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Garnish: fresh basil sprig, pear slice

Sparkling Charleston Cosmopolitan

Sparkling Charleston Cosmopolitan 

Sparkling Charleston Cosmopolitan. This peach, orange, and white cranberry "Southern" cosmopolitan is topped off with sparkling white wine.

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1 cup crushed ice

3 tablespoons vodka

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1 1/2 tablespoons peach nectar

1 tablespoon orange liqueur

1 tablespoon white cranberry juice

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2 lemon wedges

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2 tablespoons sparkling white wine

Apple Shrub

Thursday, November 20, 2014
Posted by Mike's Blogs

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Ingredients

½ oz - Hennessy V.S

½ oz - Zubrowka Bison Grass Vodka

1 oz - Apple Cider Gastrique* (recipe to follow)

2 Dashes - Angostura Bitters

Fresh Grated Cinnamon

 

For the Apple Cider Gastrique:

1 1/3 cups - Water

1 1/3 cups - Brown Sugar

2 cups - Diced Royal Gala Apples

1 cup - Organic Apple Cider Vinegar

    Add all liquids to a glass with ice. Stir until well chilled. Top with grated cinnamon and an apple fan. Apple Cider Gastrique Instructions: Bring brown sugar and water to a boil and add the diced apples. Simmer for 30 minutes and then add the vinegar. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 30 minuntes. Remove from heat, allow to cool. Strain through cheesecloth to remove any apple chunks.

Big Apple recipe

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Ingredients

1.5 oz Hennessy V.S

.5 oz calvados apple brandy

.25 oz herbal liqueur

1/3 oz agave nectar

.5 oz fresh lime juice

2 dashes aromatic bitters

1 dash cherry bitters

Garnish: pear fan

Santa Shot drink recipe

Friday, November 14, 2014
Posted by Mike's Blogs

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Ingredients

1 part grenadine syrup

1 part green creme de menthe

1 part peppermint schnapps

Carefully layer the creme de menthe, then the peppermint schnapps.

Christmas Kiss drink recipe

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Ingredients

1/2 oz. Kahlua
1/2 oz. Chambord Raspberry Liqueur

Blend and serve in chill glass. Also can be made with cranberry, Armetto, and Peach Schnapps

Sugar Cookie drink recipe

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2 tablespoons (1 oz) vodka
2 tablespoons (1 oz) chocolate liqueur
1/4 cup (2 oz) Irish cream liqueur
1/4 cup (2 oz) half-and-half
2 teaspoons butterscotch syrup
1/4 cup candy sprinkles

Serve with Ice and chill glass.

Poinsettia drink recipe

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Ingredients

1/4 cup vodka

1/4 cup Champagne

1/2 cup cranberry juice

Crushed ice

2 strips orange zest, each about 1/4-inch wide and 2 inches long

Serve with ice.