We're days away from ringing in 2024, and it's sure to be a big night for bars and restaurants. Do you have your New Year's Eve menus ready right?
We have some sparkling, caffeine-fueled, and festive cocktails for you to add to your menus for the last night of 2023!
Smooth Resolution
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Maestro Dobel Diamante
3/4 oz Apricot Liqueur
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Simple Syrup
Dash of Ginger Tincture
Directions:
- Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice
- Shake until the drink is chilled
- Strain into a cocktail glass
Bee’s Knees
Ingredients:
2 ounces 209 gin
3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce estate Ojai honey
Directions:
- Add the gin, lemon juice, and honey into a shaker with ice
- Shake until well-chilled
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
- Garnish with a lemon twist
NEFT Vodka Pomegranate Cape Cod Cocktail
Ingredients:
50ml NEFT Vodka
25ml pomegranate juice
10ml Luxardo Grenadine
10ml lime juice
30ml egg whites
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Directions:
- Dry shake
- Add ice
- Strain into a coupe glass to build the egg white foam
- Garnish with rosemary and cherry
New Year’s Kiss
Ingredients:
1 parts Malfy Arancia chilled
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
4 parts Mumm Sparkling Brut Rose
Garnish: Cracked cinnamon stick, meyer lemon wheel
Directions:
- Build in glass
- Garnish with cracked cinnamon stick and Meyer lemon wheel
Heering Coke + Champagne
Ingredients:
3 oz. Diet Coke
1 oz Champagne
1/2 oz Heering Cherry Liqueur
Directions:
- Build in glass
- Top with champagne
Hornitos Champagne Paloma
Ingredients:
1 part Hornitos Cristalino
1.5 part Grapefruit Juice
.5 part Simple Syrup or Agave Syrup
2 parts Champagne or Sparkling Wine
Directions:
- Combine ingredients except sparkling wine in a tall cocktail glass full of ice
- Gently stir to combine
- Top with sparkling wine
- Garnish with grapefruit Peel, oils expressed over drink
BBQ Bloody Mary
(For the morning after!)
Ingredients:
2 oz KURVBALL Whiskey
3 ½ oz Bloody Mary Mix
½ oz Lemon Juice
Directions:
- In a pint glass with ice add all the ingredients
- Roll the drink back and forth into a shaker tin to chill and combine
- Rim the glass with your favorite BBQ rub and top with all the fixings!
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