Liqueur Drink Recipes

Highland Harvest

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Ingredients:
2 oz The Glenlivet Scotch Whiskey
1/2 oz Hiram Walker Caramel Apple Liqueur
2 dashes orange bitters

Directions:
Fill a large rocks glass with a large ice cube. Add each ingredient and stir gently.

Courtesy of Hiram Walker.

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Golden Delicious

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Ingredients:
1 oz vodka
1 oz Hiram Walker Carmel Apple Liqueur
1 oz fresh sour mix (or high quality purchased mix)

Directions:
Pour into cocktail shaker, shake and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with apple slice.

Courtesy of Hiram Walker.

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Bloody Sunday

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This Halloween Basil Hayden’s teamed up with Daniel Hyatt, one of San Francisco’s top mixologists, to create the ultimate Halloween treat. Daniel’s Bloody Sunday combines zesty orange juice, the floral aromas of crème de violette, and Basil Hayden’s Bourbon to create an enchanting cocktail that is bursting with flavor.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 parts Basil Hayden’s Bourbon
1/2 part orange juice
1/2 part grenadine
1 dash Peychaud’s Bitters
1 barspoon of Crème de Violette
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Brain Hemorrhage

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Ingredients:
1 oz 
Peach Schnapps

1 tsp Bailey’s Irish Cream
2 drops Grenadine

Directions:
Pour the Peach Schnapps into a large shot glass.
Slowly add the Bailey’s and top with the grenadine.

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Dra-Kahlúa

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Welcome to the 31 Drinks of Halloween!

Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Kahlúa
1/2 oz Martell V.S. Cognac
1/2 oz Triple Sec
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
Blood orange wedge, garnish

Directions:
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a n chilled, half sugar-rimmed martini glass and garnish with a blood orange wedge.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Kahlúa.

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Sangria Basics

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The Awapuhi – Pau Hana Friday Cocktail

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Here’s our regular Friday cocktail from our friends at Hawaiirama as part of their regular Hawaii cocktail coverage.

Awapuhi is the Hawaiian word for a native ginger plant and this cocktail definitely has a nice, spicy ginger kick. The taste is fresh, complex and slightly sweet with a mild ginger heat. The Awapuhi is a signature cocktail at the The Red Bar, the boite located at noted Chef Bev Gannon’s Wailea joint, A Pacific View … Read more

Pau Hana Cocktails for the Tin Man Triathlete

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Friday means end of work week and time to kickback. We’re continuing with our drink menus from Tim Rita, mixologist extraordinaire at the Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki. Here’s a flight of three drinks he created in honor of the Tin Man Triathlon, a lightweight race that is a tongue-in-cheek node to the more prominent Iron Man on the Big Island.  (FYI, this post is from our friends at the Hawaii travel zine Hawaiirama – part … Read more

Elderflower Sipper

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Red, White, and B-Lucid Punch

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Created by Mixologist, Jonathan Pogash The Cocktail Guru, this punch packs…. well, a punch! Absinthe, Gin, fresh berries, ginger and OJ. Not exactly Apple Pie, but maybe we could start a new tradition.

Ingredients:
1 oz Lucid Absinthe
1 oz gin
2 strawberries, 2 blackberries
1/2 oz. Ginger Syrup
3/4 oz. Fresh Orange Juice

Directions:
Muddle the berries in the ginger syrup and orange juice. Add remaining ingredients and shake well with ice and strain … Read more