Whiskey Recipes

Backyard Barbeque Michelada

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Father’s Day is around the corner and this year mix your Dad up a Backyard Barbeque Michelada, a cocktail created by mixologist Jim Meehan owner of PDT in New York City. He created this unique cocktail as the perfect accompaniment to an evening spent outdoors.

If you really want to impress Dad, turn him on to the new trend of flasktails. Get him a nice flask, fill it with a Backyard Barbeque Michelda. Dad will … Read more

Spring-Time Manhattan

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Ingredients:
1 ½ parts Maker’s Mark
½ parts Maurin Quina Liqueur
1 bar spoon Stirrings Ginger
4 dashes Peychauds Bitters
1 heaping bar spoon of orange marmalade

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Fill with ice and shake until frost forms on the tin. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a fresh orange twist.

Recipe by Josh Lewis (Blush). Courtesy of Maker’s Mark Whisky.… Read more

The Old Fashioned 101

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Italian Stallion

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Tin Cup

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This scotch cocktail was created by Andrew Pollard for the Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival. Inspired in part by the Pimm’s Cup, this is made for outdoor sipping. It’s a great way to use ginger beer, much like a Dark and Stormy, with a new range of flavors.

Ingredients:
1 ½ oz Macallan Fine Oak 10 Year
½ oz fresh lime juice
3 dashes Angostura bitters
Gosling’s ginger beer
Mint sprig

Directions:
Dry shake … Read more

Kentucky Apple Sour

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In honor of the Kentucky Derby, here’s a recipe from our book, DIY Cocktails. Horse racing and bourbon go hand in hand, but you don’t have to be in the stands wearing your best seersucker suit or fancy hat to enjoy a little bit of Kentucky at home!

Ingredients:
1 ½ oz bourbon
½ oz Grand Marnier
½ oz  fresh apple juice
½ oz  fresh lemon juice

Directions:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail … Read more

Louisville Cocktail

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Dress up your bourbon for Derby day!

Ingredients:
2 parts Basil Hayden’s Bourbon
½ part Lillet Rouge
½ part Lillet Blanc

Directions:
Combine ingredients and shake over ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a large orange twist.

Courtesy of Basil Hayden Bourbon.… Read more

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

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(The Peanuts & Cracker Jack Cocktail)

Ingredients:
2 oz Wild Turkey 101
1 oz Frangelico
1 oz Amaretto
¼ oz squeezed lemon juice
1 pinch salt
4 oz soda water
Handful of Cracker Jacks, finely crushed

Directions:
Rub half a lemon around the rim of a glass and place into crushed Cracker Jacks to coat the rim. Combine Wild Turkey, Frangelico, Amaretto, lemon juice and salt in a shaker. Mix and strain into a glass … Read more

Shot with a Beer Back

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With Tax Day upon us, we thought we’d keep it simple this week. Real easy. Just a shot and a beer. It’s a classic, for sure, designed to ease the pain of writing that check to Uncle Sam. Simply choose your spirit of choice (vodka, tequila, whiskey, fernet, Jägermiester or any of the many, many choices out there) and pair with your favorite beer. In bar lingo, they call this a “beer back.” Not sure … Read more

Irish Appletini

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Courtesy of Hiram Walker.… Read more