Spirit Recipes to Wow Your Guests

Who doesn’t love cocktails at a party? There are so many ways you can make a simple alcoholic drink interesting. There is a wide variety of spirits to choose from and the flavors of different syrups, fruits, and herbs can be mixed into the drinks to suit everyone’s tastes. Cocktails are a great way to impress your guests and it helps kick start the party. Here are the most delicious cocktail recipes that will surely knock your guest’s socks off.

Marmalade Mule

Ingredients

50ml vodka
15ml Freshly squeezed lime
Premium Ginger Beer to top
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters

Method

Pour all the ingredients into a glass filled with ice. Shake and then pour it into one of the fancy cocktail glasses.
Garnish with fresh slices of ginger and lime.

Hibiscus Mojito

Ingredients

10- 12 mint leaves
35ml apple juice
10ml Gomme
4 wedges of lime
12.5ml Hibiscus syrup

Method

Muddle the sugar syrup and lime wedges in a glass
Add the liquid ingredients and mint leaves
Then add in the crushed ice and mix well with a bar spoon
Top the drink with more crushed ice and add a spring of mint

Gin and Prosecco Cocktail

Ingredients

40ml gin 25ml lemon juice
15ml sugar syrup
Ice cubes
Champagne or Prosecco
Lemon Zest

Method

Add the gin into a shaker with ice cubes
Pour in the lemon juice followed by sugar syrup
Shake and strain the drink into a flute glass
Top it up with Prosecco
Garnish with Lemon Zest

Cranberry Moscow Mules

Ingredients

1 part vodka
2 parts ginger beer
1 part cranberry juice
10ml lime juice
A sprig of mint

Method

Mix the ingredients in a glass with ice
Garnish with a mint leaf

Hot Toddy

Ingredients

14ml honey
10 ml orange or lemon juice, preferably fresh
¼ cup of boiling water
1 shot of brandy, whiskey, or bourbon
Cinnamon stick

Method

Mix all the ingredients in a glass until the honey is dissolved.
Garnish with a cinnamon stick and serve.

Hurricane

Ingredients

50ml fresh orange juice
25ml lime juice, freshly squeezed
5ml Grenadine
25ml white rum
25ml dark rum
20ml passion fruit syrup

Method

Mix all the ingredients together in a shaker with ice
Strain and pour into a glass and garnish with a glace cherry and a slice of orange

I’ve Got 99 Bourbons, But A Beech Ain’t One

Ingredients

7 to 8 mint leaves
15ml corn syrup
50ml bourbon
2 dashes Aztec chocolate bitters
Chocolate soil

Methods

To make the chocolate soil boil 100g of sugar with 2 tablespoons of water until golden brown. Then add 70 g of chocolate into it. Remove the mixture from heat and whisk for a couple of minutes.
Add all the ingredients into a julep tin, half of it filled with ice.
Mix with a bar spoon, strain it into a glass.
Add more crushed ice into the drink and garnish with mint leaves and chocolate soil