Light up your Hanukkah with more than candles.  We’ve put together eight crazy cocktails, one for each night.  You can even make a game out of it. Assign a letter to the dreidel to four of these and drink away.  

Fun, right?  Please make sure a responsible adult handles the matches while you are drinking.

Eight Crazy Drinks For Hanukkah:

Shalom – this means Hello. Start off a round of cocktails with this tasty treat.

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This drink means Bon Appetite.

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka
3.5 oz apple juice (Apple and Eve is kosher parve)
1 cinnamon stick (Liebers cinnamon sticks)
1 apple slice

Directions:
Combine Russian Standard Vodka, apple juice and ice in a highball glass. Stir well and garnish with the apple slice and cinnamon stick.

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This drink means Happy New Year!

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka (kosher)
2 oz POM pomegranate juice (kosher parve)
Splash of lemon juice
Mint leaf

Directions:
Shake Russian Standard Vodka, lemon juice and pomegranate juice gently over ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a mint leaf or lemon twist.

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This drink means hello.

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka (kosher)
3 oz Golden Flow All Natural Lemonade (kosher parve)
1 slice of lemon, garnish

Directions:
In a tumbler, combine 1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka, 3 oz of lemonade and ice. Garnish with a slice of lemon.

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This drink mean your welcome! It’s essentially a kosher martini.

Ingredients:
2 oz Russian Standard Vodka (kosher)
Splash of Kedem Dry Vermouth (kosher)
3 Osem Medditerranean Cracked Olives (kosher)

Directions:
Pour vodka and vermouth into cocktail shaker. It’s up to you whether you shake or stir. Strain into martini glass.

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Basil Hayden’s Spinning Driedel
Created by Max Toste, Boston MA

Ingredients:
2 parts Basil Hayden’s Bourbon Whiskey
1 part Pomegranate Juice
1 tablespoon Fig Preserve
1 bar spoon Fresh Lemon Juice
2 dashes Angostura Aromatic Bitters

Preparation:
1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well.
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with a lemon peel.

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Tonight will be the fourth of the eight crazy nights of Hanukkah. We highly recommend indulging in blue cocktails for the nights that remain. You might ask why blue drinks for Hanukkah or why is blue one of the colors of Hanukkah? We searched the internet and found an explanation that we liked. There was no consensus on why blue. A number of people attributed it to the Israeli flag. But, the explanation that we … Read more

Here’s one we created back a few years — worthy of a repost!

Michael, my bro, was searching for a good Hanukkah drink. Unhappy with what he found, he created this shiny treat instead.

We first posted this a few years ago, but we should enjoy it every year!

So, he say “Spin your dreidels, eat some latkes, and have some Hanukkah Gelt, a Hannukkah Gelt Martini that is”.
This DOTW original will keep those … Read more

The holidays are upon us. We know that most of you are expected to buy your boss a present for Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. We think that booze is the perfect gift to buy, unless your boss is a recovering alcoholic and booze only makes things worse.

To impress your your boss, you need to pick a spirit that is cool, but not too trendy. You need a bottle that is expensive enough without being … Read more

Our apologies for getting High/Low Weekend up a bit late, but these suggestions are great for the entire holiday season!

I jokingly tell people that I am a huge fan of anything that sparkles! But, I really love sparkling wine and jewelry (I know, join the long line of women that love those sparklers). Notice that I don’t say I love Champagne but that I love sparkling wine. This is because the world of sparkling … Read more