Spooky Season is Here!
Toil and Trouble
Ingredients:
- 2oz Brandy
- 0.75oz Cinnamon Simple Syrup
- 0.5oz Grapefruit Juice
- 0.5oz Lemon Juice
- 1 tbsp Blackberry Jam
- 1 dash Angostura Bitters
Directions:
Preparation: combine ingredients in a mixing tin with ice and shake hard, then strain into a rocks glass and top with crushed ice.
Garnish: Toasted cinnamon sticks (Toast cinnamon sticks with torch or over stove until they begin to smolder) and a few blackberries.
*Cinnamon Simple Syrup:
3 Cinnamon Sticks
2 c. Water
1.5 c. Sugar
Preparation: Combine cinnamon sticks and water in a small saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes, then remove cinnamon sticks and add sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved and then cool.
Night Eyes
Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz Silver Tequila
- .75 oz Midori Melon Liqueur
- .25 oz Elderflower Liqueur
- .5 oz Lime Juice
- .25 oz Ginger Syrup
- For Garnish Sugar
- For Garnish Lime
Directions:
Rim a rocks glass with black decorated sugar. Combine Tequila, Midori Melon Liqueur, Elderflower Liqueur, Lime Juice, and Ginger Syrup in a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into the rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.
*Ginger Syrup
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Ginger Juice
1/2 cup Water
Combine Sugar, Ginger Syrup, and Water in a small saucepan over low heat. Simmer until all sugar dissolves. Allow to cool.
Corpse Reviver
Ingredients:
- 1oz Gin
- 1oz Cointreau
- 1oz Lemon Juice
- 1oz Dry Vermouth
- 1/2tsp Absinthe
Directions:
In a shaker full of ice, add all the ingredients. Stir until cold, strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
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