Tis
The Season To Sip: Delicious Holiday Cocktails
By FBWorld Team
December
is the season of holiday parties, entertaining, and celebrations
with friends, family and loved ones. And of course, it
is not a holiday celebration without delicious food and
festive cocktails! These are sure to get you in the spirit
for the jolly season.
Drambuie's
Hot Honey Butter
Ingredients:
2 parts Drambuie
1 Heaping tbls. Natural Apple Butter
1/2 tbls. Unsalted Butter
6 parts Steamed Whole Milk (Or choice milk-base)
1 small pinch Kosher Salt
1/8 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Ground Nutmeg
Garnish with steamed milk foam and Cinnamon Stick
Serve
in small mug/teacup
Procedures:
Steam milk, apple butter and spices together until hot.
Double-strain into cup over butter. Stir in Drambuie.
Top with additional milk foam.
Drambuie is made from a delightful combination of
scotch whisky, heather honey, herbs and spices.
Ancho-Jito
Ingredients:
2 parts Ancho
1 part Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 part Simple Syrup (1:1)
7-9 leaves of Fresh Mint
3 Lime Wedges
Soda Water
Procedures:
Add mint, lime wedges and simple syrup into a shaker tin.
Lightly smash the ingredients together. Add FDC, Ancho
Reyes, lime juice and ice and shake. Strain all contents
into a double rocks glass. Garnish with a mint sprig and
lime wheel.
Thé
Fumée (Smoked Tea Cocktail)
Ingredients:
1 part Montelobos
3/4 part Dry Sherry
3/4 part Jasmine Tea infused Dolin blanc
1/2 part St Germain Liquor
2 dashes Grapefruit Bitters
Procedures:
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir well.
Strain into a nick & nora or martini glass, garnish
with a dried flower.
Stack
Sazerac
Ingredients:
1 1/2 parts Monkey Shoulder
1/5 part Sugar Syrup
Dash Peychaud's Bitters
Dash Absinthe
Top Peach Smoke
Procedures:
Add all ingredients to mixing glass. Add cold dry ice
and stir. Once dilution is reached strain into glass.
Top with Smoke and garnish with peach smoke.
Monkey Shoulder, the mischievous malt whisky, is made
for mixing in great cocktails like Show Me The Monkey.
Hudson
Whiskey's Stone Ridge
Ingredients:
1 1/2 parts Hudson Manhattan Rye
1 1/2 parts Fresh Apple Cider
4 parts Q
Ginger Beervvv
2-3 dashes (to taste) Aromatic Bitters
Apple Slice
Procedures:
Build over ice in a Collins glass (or tumbler/rocks glass
if you prefer): apple cider, then whiskey, and fill up
with ginger beer. Finally, add a few dashes of aromatic
bitters. Garnish with apple slice, and serve with a straw.
Hudson Whiskey, the first legal pot-stilled whiskey distilled
in New York state since prohibition, sources 90% of its
grains from within 40 miles of the distillery.
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