10 tasty + festive cocktails to toast goodbye to 2020 🎉

Buffalo 66

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz of vodka (for example Tommyrotter Distillery Small Batch Vodka )
• 0.75 oz of fresh-squeezed lemon juice
• 0.75 oz of simple syrup
• Splash of prosecco

Directions:

Shake vodka, lemon and simple syrup with ice. Strain from shaker with Hawthorne strainer over a fine strainer into a Collins glass. Top with prosecco. Garnish with a thyme sprig.

Great chase

Ingredients:

• 37.5ml vodka (for example Chase Vodka )
• 12.5ml elderflower liqueur (for example Chase Elderflower Liqueur)
• Squeeze fresh lemon
• Club soda

Directions:

Build all ingredients in a wine glass with cubed ice and stir gently to combine.

Dirty martini

Ingredients:

• 6 ml Gin (for example Grace O’Malley Heather Infused Irish Gin )
• 2 ml sweet white Vermouth (for example Lillet Blanc )
• Optional: 4 dashes of Olive Bitters (for example The Bitter Truth )
• 1 tsp olive brine (from the olive jar)

Directions:

Fill a mixing glass with ice cubes and add the ingredients. Stir on ice, then strain into a coupe or martini glass. Add the olive for garnish. Tip: chill the glass in the freezer before serving

Hot toddy

Ingredients:

• 45 ml dark rum (for example Diplomático Mantuano )
• 30 ml freshly squeezed orange juice
• 15 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 15 ml honey

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients in a mug and fill with hot water. Garnish with cinnamon sticks.

Eggnog

Ingredients:

• 250 ml dark rum (for example: Diplomático Mantuano)
• 500 ml milk
• 100 gr sugar
• 6 egg yolks
• 125 ml heavy cream

Directions:

Whisk egg yolks in a large bowl. In a saucepan over medium heat, whisk milk and sugar for 2 minutes. Add mix to the egg yolks on the bowl while whisking. Return to saucepan and cook 20 minutes over medium heat, stirring often. Strain into a bowl, add Mantuano and heavy cream, cover and refrigerate. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and grated nutmeg.

Sapporo Premium cranberry splash

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Grace O’Malley Gin
• 4 oz Sapporo Premium
• 1 oz cranberry juice
• 1 cranberry-rosemary simple syrup*
• 1 oz lime juice
• Fresh cranberries, for garnish
• Rosemary, for garnish

Directions:

Add cranberry juice, syrup, and gin to a shaker filled with ice. Shake until very cold. Pour into a glass and top with Sapporo Premium. Garnish with cranberries and a sprig of rosemary.

*Cranberry-rosemary Simple Syrup: Combine 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, 1 cup cranberries and 2 sprigs of rosemary in a pot. Bring to a boil. When sugar dissolves, remove from heat. Let cool.

Partida Anejo Cristalino martini

Ingredients:

• 1.5-2 oz Partida Añejo Cristalino
• ¾ oz sweet white vermouth
• ¼ oz lemon juice
• 2 dashes orange bitters

Directions:

Shake all ingredients in a shaker and double strain over a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Mocktail: Jingle bell rock AF gin sour

Ingredients:

• 2 oz of Cedars Crisp
• 1 oz. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
• 1 egg white
• 1 oz of candy cane simple syrup ( recipe here )
• Ice
• Small candy cane garnish
• Lemon wedge garnish

Directions:

Pour all ingredients (except ice) into a shaker and dry shake it for one min. Add ice, shake for one min. Strain into a cocktail glass!

Mocktail: Merry Bloody Mary beer chelada

Ingredients:

• Splash Bloody Mary
• One can Athletic Brewing All Out Extra Dark
• Candy cane spicy rub: Crushed candy canes, Montreal Steak Seasoning , Cayenne Pepper
• Lime wedge
• Olives, pickles, roasted peppers (any savory garnishes you have laying around) skewered on a stick!

Directions:

Rub the lime wedge on the rim of a high ball glass. Place rim into candy cane rub. Pour ice into the glass. Fill glass 2/3 with Splash Bloody Mary. Top 1/3 with Athletic Brewing All Out Extra Dark. Place a savory vegetable skewer in the glass.

Mocktail: Holiday beer sangria

Ingredients:

• Leftover holiday fruit slices like orange/apple/cranberry, pomegranate seeds, cinnamon stick (use what you have)
• 2 oz apple cider
• Well Being Victory Wheat
• Ice

Directions:

Place fruit in low ball (or stemless wineglass) glass with ice. Add apple cider. Add Well Being Victory Wheat Beer. Stir and drink!