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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.

Drambuie Collins

Drambuie Collins

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Drambuie
Juice of 1/2 Lemon
2.5 oz Soda Water
Garnish Fresh Mint

Directions:
1. Pour your Drambuie and lemon juice into Collins glass.
2. Drop a few mint leaves into the glass and fill it with ice.
3. Top with soda and stir.

drambui fresco

Drambuie Fresco

Drambuie Fresco

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Drambuie
2 oz Grapefruit Juice
0.5 oz Hendrick's Gin
1 oz Milagro Silver Core Tequila
1 Sprig Mint Sprig
1 Slice Grapefruit Slice

Shaken and served over fresh ice. Top with soda. Mint sprig and Grapefruit slice Garnish

Drambuie Fresco

Drambuie Fresco

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
0.75 oz Drambuie
1.5 oz Pink Grapefruit Juice
Top Soda Water

Directions:
1. Pour your Drambuie and pink grapefruit juice into a tumbler filled with ice.
2. Top with soda, then garnish with a slice of pink grapefruit and mint.

Drambuie Grapefruit Mint "The Backyard Bouie"

Drambuie Grapefruit Mint "The Backyard Bouie"

Drambuie Grapefruit Mint "The Backyard Bouie"

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Drambuie
1 oz Grapefruit Juice
4 Leaves Mint Leaves
3 oz Hefeweizen Wheat Beer
1 Sprig Mint Sprig

Lightly shake Drambuie
grapefruit juice and
mint leaves together
then add beer to
the shaker before
straining over ice.
Garnish with a mint sprig

Drink If You Dairy

Drink If You Dairy

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Fireball Whisky
1.5 oz Milk
1.5 oz Half & Half
0.25 tsp Powdered Sugar
0.25 tsp Vanilla Extract

1. Combine ingredients over ice and stir vigorously.
2. Serve over ice & garnish with nutmeg.

Drink Me You Will

Drink Me You Will

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Calvados
1 oz Apple Cider
0.5 oz Sage Simple Syrup
0.5 oz Lemon Juice
6 Basil
Sage

Directions:

1. Add the Calvados, apple cider, sage simple syrup, lemon juice and basil leaves to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
2. Double-strain into a Martini glass.
3. Garnish with 2 fresh sage leaves. If possible, clip to either side of the glass using miniature clothespins or a pick.

*Sage simple syrup: Heat 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water together over medium-low heat, stirring often, until dissolved. Allow to cool. Transfer to an airtight container, add 8 fresh sage leaves, cut in half, and steep overnight. Remove the sage leaves in the morning.

Recipe from Liquor.com
Photo by Tim Nuso

Dry Martini - Liquor.com

Dry Martini - Liquor.com

Mix It Yourself:

2.5 oz Beefeater Gin
0.5 oz Dry vermouth
1 dash Orange bitters

Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with ice.
Stir until very cold and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist

Dry Rye Manhattan

Dry Rye Manhattan

Dry Rye Manhattan

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Canadian Club® 100% Rye
0.75 Part Dry Vermouth
1 Dash Angostura® Bitters
1 Dash Simple Syrup
For Garnish Lemon Peel

Stir first four ingredients together. Add a lemon peel, after zesting over glass. Served straight or on the rocks.

Dublin 12 Old Fashioned

Dublin 12 Old Fashioned

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Proper No. Twelve
1 TSP Simple Syrup
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
2 Dashes Angostura Orange Bitters 

1. In a low ball glass, add Proper No. Twelve Whiskey, simple syrup and bitters. Add ice to glass and stir. Garnish with lemon wedge and cherry.

 
Dublin Donkey

Dublin Donkey

Dublin Donkey

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part 2 GINGERS® Whiskey
2 Parts Ginger Beer
0.5 Lime Fresh Lime Juice

In a glass with ice, combine 2 GINGERS® Irish Whiskey and lime juice. Top it off with Ginger Beer.

East End Cocktail

East End Cocktail

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 ounces Silver Tequila
1 ounce Lime Juice
8-10 Mint
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Mint

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously for 15–20 seconds, or until frosted on the outside. Double strain into a coupe. Garnish with a mint leaf.

Eggnog Martini

Eggnog Martini

Eggnog Martini

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Amaretto Liqueur
1 oz Original Vodka
2 oz Egg Nog
1 Pinch Ground Nutmeg

Add ingredients to an ice-filled shaker. Shake and strain into a Martini glass. Sprinkle with Nutmeg.

EL ABRAZO

EL ABRAZO

EL ABRAZO

Mix It Yourself:

2 parts Creyente Mezcal
2 parts Fresh Peach Puree
1 part Lemon Juice
1/2 part Maple Syrup

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake. Rim a rocks glass with salt. Strain into the rocks glass with fresh ice.

El Presidente

El Presidente

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
2 oz Bacardi Superior Rum
0.75 oz part Red Vermouth
0.25 oz Cointreau
2 dashes angostura
Orange peel (garnish)

Directions:
1. Stir all ingredients with plenty of ice until very cold. Strain into a coupe glass.
2. Garnish with orange peel.

Elderberry Mash

Elderberry Mash

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
2 oz Casamigos Blanco Tequila
0.75 oz Lime Juice
0.25 oz Pomegranate Molasses
2 Strawberries
2 Green Bell Pepper

Directions:
1. Muddle strawberries, peppers and molasses in a cocktail shaker.
2. Shake ingredients with ice and double-strain into a cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with strawberry slices.

 

Photo copyright Russel Caron Wedding Photography

Ancho Reyes Vermouth Elderflower "Estridentista"

Elderflower "Estridentista"

Elderflower "Estridentista"

Mix It Yourself:

0.75 oz Ancho Reyes
1.5 oz Dry Vermouth
0.75 oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur
2 Dashes Grapefruit Bitters
1 Each Lemon Peel

Chill a coupe glass with ice and water and set aside. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until well chilled and diluted. Discard chilling ice from coupe and strain cocktail into chilled glass. Using a vegetable peeler, remove a long peel of lemon. Express the oils over the cocktail, rub the peel around the glass rim, and place in the coupe.

Elderflower Margarita

Elderflower Margarita

Elderflower Margarita

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Sauza® Blue Silver 100% Agave Tequila
0.5 Part St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur
0.5 Part Fresh Lime Juice

Add all ingredients in mixing glass. Stir over ice and strain into a chilled glass.

Elderflower Mojito

Elderflower Mojito

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.75 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
1.25 White Rum
0.75 oz Lime Juice
0.25 oz Simple Syrup
1.25 oz Soda Water
8 Mint Leaves
Garnish: Elderflower Blossom


Directions:
1. Pour St‑Germain, white rum, freshly squeezed lime juice, sugar and mint into a highball glass.
2. Add crushed ice and churn well.
3. Add more crushed ice and top with a splash of soda water.
4. Garnish with a sprig of mint and a bio-degradable straw.

Elderflower Spritz

Elderflower Spritz

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
3 oz Prosecco
1 oz Soda Water
2 Mint Sprigs (1 for garnish)
1 Lemon Wheel

1. Muddle the spirits and 1 mint sprig in the bottom of a wine glass.
2. Add the prosecco and soda water, and stir gently.
3. Garnish with the remaining mint sprig and lemon wheel.

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