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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.

Jim Rickey

Jim Rickey

Jim Rickey

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Jim Beam® Rye
0.5 Part Lime Juice
3 Parts Soda Water
Lime Wheel

Measure and pour lime juice and Jim Beam Rye into tall glass. Fill completely with ice and top with soda/sparkling mineral water. Stir and serve.

Jimmy's Best

Jimmy's Best

Jimmy's Best

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Jim Beam Black
0.25 Part Cinnamon Syrup
1 Splash Orange Bitters
1 Splash Plum Bitters
1 Orange Twist

Blend Jim Beam Black with cinnamon syrup, plum bitters, orange bitters and ice in a separate glass. Fill tumbler with ice cubes and pour all ingredients over it. Garnish with an orange peel or slices of plum and orange.

Jimmy's Chocolate

Jimmy's Chocolate

Jimmy's Chocolate

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Jim Beam Honey
1 Egg White
0.5 Part Lemon Juice
0.5 Part Chocolate Syrup

Shake Jim Beam and ice with lemon juice, chocolate syrup and egg white. Use a sieve to pour the liquid into a chilled glass. Garnish with praline and orange.

Jingle Bird

Jingle Bird

Mix It Yourself:


Ingredients:
1 oz Dark Rum
.5 oz Scotch
.75 oz Campari
1.5 oz Pineapple juice
.5 oz Avocado Pit Orgeat*
Pinch of Cinnamon
Rosemary

Mix all ingredients in a shaker. Strain over rocks and garnish with rosemary.

*Avocado Pit Orgeat: Cut one avocado pit into quarters, then blend in a food processor and then toast mixture in a saucepan over medium with oil. Once toasted, soak 1.5 cups of sugar and 1.5 cups of water with toasted avocado pit mixture overnight. Blend in a mixer and strain to produce syrup. Recipe by Fleet Street Bar Co.


 

Jingle Irish Cream

Jingle Irish Cream

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1 oz Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
1 oz Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur
1 oz Amaretto
2 oz Half And Half

Mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice until cold. Garnish with a dried orange. 

Jockey Club

Jockey Club

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

4 oz Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin
2 oz Amaretto
2 oz Lemon Juice
1 oz Simple Syrup
4 Dashes Aromatic Bitters

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass, and stir to combine.
2. Transfer to a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice, and shake for 5 seconds to chill.
3. Strain, and pour into two coupe glasses.
4. Serve with a lemon peel, and enjoy!

Jim Beam® Collins

John Collins

John Collins

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Jim Beam® Honey
0.5 Part Orange Juice
1 tsp Sugar
1 Orange Wheel

Add fresh orange juice and sugar to a tall glass. Stir to dissolve sugar and measure and pour in Jim Beam. Fill glass completely with ice and top with soda water. Stir, garnish and serve.

Johnnie Walker Lemon

Johnnie Walker Lemon

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Johnnie Walker Black Label

1 oz. Sweet Vermouth

3 oz. Sparkling Lemon Water

1 Lemon Wedge

 

Mix Whiskey and Sweet Vermouth with ice in a shaker. Strain into glass and garnish with lemon. 

Johnnie Walker Walk with Us

Johnnie Walker Walk with Us

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1 oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
2 oz tonic water
2 oz ginger ale
1 dash bitters
1 tsp Lemon juice

Fill a tall glass with ice cubes and add all ingredients. Garnish with an orange wedge and enjoy!

Johnnie Walker's Jane Walker

Johnnie Walker's Jane Walker

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
 

1.5 oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
1 oz Grapefruit Juice
2 oz Ginger Ale
1 dash Bitters
Grapefruit Slice

Mix all ingredients together in shaker with ice. Garnish with a grapefruit slice!

Johnny Peachy Seed

Johnny Peachy Seed

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts SVEDKA Peach
4 Parts Apple Juice
Splash Soda Water

Build ingredients in a Collins glass over ice, and stir briefly. Garnish with a peach slice and lime wedge

The Jolene Cocktail

Jolene

Jolene

Mix It Yourself:

Tempting with auburn color and emerald mint-leaf eyes, the Jolene cocktail is beyond compare.

1.5 oz Sweet Tea Vodka
.5 oz Peach Schnapps
2 oz Ginger Beer
Mint Sprig
Fresh Peaches

 

Mix all ingredients in a mason jar and fill with ice. Garnish with slices of fresh peach and a mint sprig.

 

 

 

Jolly cup o' joe holiday cocktail

Jolly Cup O'Joe

Jolly Cup O'Joe

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

4 oz Coffee
1 oz Allen's Coffee Brandy
0.5 oz Creme De Cacao Liqueur
1 oz Half And Half
Candy Cane

Directions:

Rim a coffee cup in corn syrup and then add crushed candy canes. Pour in hot coffee and add coffee brandy, crème de cocoa and half and half. Stir and enjoy!

Juarez Margarita

Juarez Margarita

Juarez Margarita

Mix It Yourself:

0.5 oz Juarez Tequila
0.5 oz Juarez Triple Sec
1 oz Lime Juice

Rub the rim of a cocktail glass
with lime juice and dip in salt.
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain
into the glass and serve.

Jungle

Jungle

Jungle

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1½ oz Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey
¼ oz Dark Rum
½ oz Campari
½ oz Falernum
½ oz Orgeat Syrup
½ oz Lime Juice
½ oz Lemon Juice
 

Shake all ingredients and pour into a collins glass. Float ¼ oz. dark rum. Garnish with a pineapple leaf and a cherry.

Jungle Bird

Jungle Bird

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Goslings Black Seal Rum
0.75 oz Campari
1.5 oz Pineapple Juice
0.5 oz Lime Juice
0.5 oz Demerara Syrup

1. Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
​3. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

Jungle Bird Slushie

Jungle Bird Slushie

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Goslings Black Seal Rum
0.5 oz Campari
3 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz Lime Juice
1 oz Demerara Syrup

Serves 2

1. Mix the ingredients in a plastic or paper cup.
2. Freeze for 3 hours, or until the mixture obtains a slush-like consistency.

For popsicles: Reduce the rum to 1 oz and pour into a popsicle mold.

Just Peachy Long Island

Just Peachy Long Island

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Sobieski Rye Vodka
1 oz White Rum
1 oz Gin
1 oz Tequila
1 oz Marie Brizard® Peach Liqueur
2 oz Sour Mix
2 oz Cola
1 Lemon Wedge

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Just Peachy  

Just Peachy  

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz SVEDKA Vodka
0.5 oz Peach Schnapps
0.75 oz Sour Mix
3 oz Cranberry Juice
Splash Lemon Juice

Build a cocktail shaker over ice
Shake and strain into a rocks
glass over ice and garnish
with a peach peel

Kahlua Espresso Martini

Kahlua Espresso Martini

Kahlua Espresso Martini

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Kahlua
1 oz Belvedere vodka
1 oz freshly brewed espresso or strong black coffee
Coffee bean

Add ingredients to a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously to chill, and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a coffee bean.

Photo Credit: Russell Caron Wedding Photography

Kelp Collins

Kelp Collins

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Barren's Sugar Kelp Vodka
0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
0.75 oz simple syrup

Shake, pour over ice into a Collins glass and top with soda water, and garnish with a lemon wedge and cherry.

Maker's Mark Kentucky bubbly

Kentucky Bubbly

Kentucky Bubbly

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1 Part Maker's Mark Bourbon
Apple Cider, Chilled Sparkling
1 Maraschino Cherry

Add Maker's Mark Bourbon to a champagne flute, then fill with chilled sparkling apple cider. Add a maraschino cherry.

kentucky buck

Kentucky Buck

Kentucky Buck

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
2 oz Maker's Mark Bourbon
½ oz Lemon Juice
3 Strawberries
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Ginger Beer
 

Muddle strawberry in a shaker. Add Maker’s Mark, lemon and bitters and shake. Strain into an ice-filled glass. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with a strawberry.

Kentucky Coffee

Kentucky Coffee

Kentucky Coffee

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Maker's Mark Bourbon
1 Part Irish Cream Liqueur
1 Splash Frangelico Liqueur
Hot Coffee
Whipped Cream

Fill a mug half way with hot coffee and pour in Maker's Mark Bourbon and Frangelico Liqueur. Add cream liqueur and top off with a dollop of whipped cream.

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