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Recipes

Discover cocktail recipes you can make with the ingredients you already have on hand! Select your ingredients, and we’ll match them with our collection of over 1500 cocktail recipes.

Banana Truffle

Banana Truffle-Shuffle

Banana Truffle-Shuffle

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Chocolate Liqueur
1 Part Cruzan Banana Rum
2 Parts Coconut Milk
Chocolate Shavings

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker over ice and shake. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with shaved chocolate.

Banoffee Pie Cocktail

Banoffee Pie Cocktail

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 oz rum

1 frozen banana

1 oz baileys

.5 oz Dr. McGillicuddy's Butterscotch liqueur

Whipped cream

Mix all ingredients in a blender with ice, except whipped cream. Pour and top with whipped cream!

(optional: banana slice garnish)

BANTY ROOSTER RUM PUNCH

BANTY ROOSTER RUM PUNCH

Mix It Yourself:

8 parts Owney's
4 parts Pineapple Juice
2 parts Orange Juice
2 part Lime Juice
2 parts Simple Syrup
1 part Grenadine
1 part Maraschino Liqueur

In a large container or bowl, mix together all ingredients. Pour over ice. Garnish with cherries, strawberries or an orange wheel.

BARISTA’S OLD FASHIONED

BARISTA’S OLD FASHIONED

BARISTA’S OLD FASHIONED

Mix It Yourself:

2 parts The Sexton Whiskey
½ part Coffee Liqueur
2 dashes Angostura bitters
maple wood chips
ice

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until cold. Strain into a double old-fashioned glass over fresh ice. With the Smoking gun, smoke the cocktail using maple wood chips. (Careful not to smoke the glass too much). Garnish with an orange peel.

Barrow's Gingerbread Martini

Barrow's Gingerbread Martini

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Don Q Spiced Rum
1 oz Barrow's Intense Ginger Liqueur
1.5 oz Heavy Whipping Cream
3 Dashes Aromatic Bitters

Directions:
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Top with cinnamon and/or nutmeg.

Basil Hayden’s Classic Manhattan

Basil Hayden’s Classic Manhattan

Basil Hayden’s Classic Manhattan

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Basil Hayden's Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
0.75 Part Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth
2 Dashes Angostura® Bitters
3 Luxardo Maraschino Cherries

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with three cherries on a cocktail skewer.

Basil Lemonade

Basil Lemonade

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 oz Vodka
1 oz Simple Syrup
1 oz Lemon Juice
8-10 Basil

Directions:

With all the ingredients in your shaker, muddle vigorously until basil leaves are broken apartand contents have a rich, green color. Strain in to a collins glass full of ice and garnish with basil top and (if desired) lemon wheel

 


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Basil Watermelon Cooler

Basil Watermelon Cooler

Basil Watermelon Cooler

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Grey Goose Original
4 Leaves Basil
1 Slice Peeled Ginger
2 Chunks Watermelon
0.5 Part Fresh Lime Juice
0.5 Part Simple Syrup
Ginger Ale

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle 3 basil leaves with ginger slice, 1 watermelon chunk and simple syrup.
2. Add ice, GREY GOOSE® Vodka and lime juice.
3. Shake well and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
4. Top with ginger ale.
5. Garnish with remaining watermelon chunk and basil leaves.

Basking in the Nude

Basking in the Nude

Mix It Yourself:

1 ½ oz Goslings Black Seal Rum
1 oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice
¾ oz Raspberry Syrup
½ oz Cinzano Sweet Vermouth
½ oz Fresh Lime Juice

Directions:
Combine all ingredients and shake with ice. Strain into a chilled coupe,
Garnish: Edible gold dusted luxardo cherry

Bay Breeze

Bay Breeze

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz White Rum
1 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Cranberry Juice
Pineapple Frond (Garnish)
Strawberries (Garnish)

1. Build ingredients in a Collins glass filled with ice, and stir.
2. Garnish with a pineapple frond and strawberries.

Photo Credit: Caron & Co. Photography

BBQ Bloody

BBQ Bloody

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Kurvball BBQ Whiskey
4 oz Bloody Mary Mix
1/2 oz Lemon Juice

Add Your Favorite Fixins:
Worcestershire Sauce
Tabasco
Pickled Peppers
Celery
Lemon or Lime
BBQ'D Meats
Salt Rimmer or BBQ Rub

Build ingredients in a glass with ice and stir.

Beachbum's Own

Beachbum's Own

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Light Rum
1.25 oz Dark Rum
0.75 oz Licor 43
0.75 oz Pineapple Juice
0.75 oz Orange Juice
0.75 oz Lemon Juice
0.75 oz Passion Fruit Puree

1. Add all the ingredients to a shaker with crushed ice and shake until well-chilled.
2. Pour, unstrained, into a Tiki mug or a double Old Fashioned glass.
3.Garnish with a cocktail umbrella.

Recipe from Liquor.com
​Image from Tim Nusog

Beam & Hops

Beam & Hops

Beam & Hops

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Jim Beam Original
0.75 Part Elderflower Liqueur
4 Parts IPA Beer
Muddled Basil Leaves
1 Lemon Wheel

In a Collins glass, muddle the basil leaves with the Jim Beam and St. Elder Liqueur. Briefly shake with ice. Top with IPA and stir briefly. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Beam Ade

Beam Ade

Beam Ade

Mix It Yourself:

0.75 Part DeKuyper Triple Sec Liqueur
1.25 Parts Jim Beam®
4 Parts Lemonade
Lemon Wedge

Combine ingredients in mixing tin. Shake vigorously with NO ice. Pour over ice in glass. Garnish and serve.

Beam Applebees

Beam Applebees

Beam Applebees

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Jim Beam Honey
1.5 Cups Sparkling Apple Juice
Lime Wedges

Squeeze lime wedge into glass and on rim and discard. Measure and pour Jim Beam Honey into glass, fill completely with ice and top with sparkling apple juice. Garnish and serve.

Beamtown

Beamtown

Beamtown

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Jim Beam Bourbon
1 Part DeKuyper® Red Apple Schnapps
1 Part Pineapple Juice

Add ingredients to an ice-filled shaker. Shake and strain into a shot glass.

Bebbo Shmebbo

Bebbo Shmebbo

Bebbo Shmebbo

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Grapefruit Jalapeno Svedka
0.5 Part Orange Juice
0.5 Part Honey Syrup
0.75 Part Lemon Juice

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with skweered jalapeno slices.

bed of roses martini

Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Jagermeister
0.5 Part Grenadine

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake well and strain into a martini glass.  Garnish: Cherry

Bee Sting

Bee Sting

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz. Gin

.75 oz. Honey/Mint Syrup*

.75 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice

1 dash Scrappy’s Lavender Bitters 

 

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake, then strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with a few dried chamomile buds.

*For the Honey/Mint Syrup brew a strong cup of herbal mint tea, two bags of Tazo brand herbal mint to 8 oz. of water are recommended, and combine with an equal amount of raw honey.

Bee's Holiday

Bee's Holiday

Bee's Holiday

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Mango Pineapple Svedka
0.75 Part Lemon Juice
0.75 Part Honey

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake, and strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a lemon wedge, or a honeycomb.

Beefeater Strawberries & Coconut Cream

Beefeater Strawberries & Coconut Cream

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Beefeater Pink Strawberry
​2 Scoops Coconut Ice Cream
2.5 oz Coconut Water
2 oz Strawberry Puree
Top with Rose Champagne

1. Add strawberry puree to glass.
2. Blend Beefeater Pink, coconut ice cream, coconut water until just smooth
3. Pour over the puree
4. Top with champagne
5. If desired use a bar spook or metal straw to create layered bleeding affect

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