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Cozy Cocktails
 Winter Liqueur-Friendly Cocktails are Smooth, Sweet and Highly Sellable
Sales always can be sweeter with liqueur. Smooth, sweet and most often
sophisticated, they add a revenue-resounding touch of class to a bar’s
beverage program when effectively mixed in with creative cocktails.
Guests appreciate the effort and the creativity put into them,
bartenders enjoy a good challenge and the chance to enjoy the craft,
managers are pleased by having a busier bar in the wintertime, and
owners are thrilled with the results of the registers’ rundowns at
shift’s end. What’s not to love?
Try
the following liqueur concoctions, and enjoy! Certainly, your patrons
will thank you for the chance to try one, at least.
Menage au Poire
1.25 ounces Pitu Cachaça
1 ounce Belle de Brillet Pear/Cognac liqueur
1/2 ounce Chinaco Reposado tequila
2.5 ounces Santa Cruz Pear Nectar
Juice of half a lime
Pinch of sea salt
1 slice pear, for garnish
1 lime twist, for garnish
Fill a cocktail shaker two-thirds full of ice and add the cachaca,
Belle de Brillet, tequila, pear nectar, lime juice and sea salt. Shake
for approximately 15 seconds and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Add the garnishes.
Recipe courtesy of Gary Regan, author of “The Joy of Mixology: The
Consummate Guide to the Bartender’s Craft” and dapted from a recipe by
Victoria Damato-Moran, bar manager at Tony Nik’s in San Francisco
The Gingerbread Cocktail
2.5 ounces Boru Orange Vodka
1 ounce Monin Gingerbread Syrup
Sugar
Graham cracker crumbs
Prior to mixing the cocktail, take equal parts sugar and graham cracker
crumbs, mix them together, and place in a saucer. In a separate saucer,
pour a few ounces of Monin gingerbread syrup. Moisten the outer rim of
a Martini glass in the syrup, and then dip it into the sugar and crumb
mixture so that the glass is rimmed evenly. In a mixing glass, add ice,
Boru Orange Vodka and 1 ounce Monin gingerbread syrup. Shake
vigorously, and strain into the Martini glass.
Recipe courtesy of Castle Brands Inc.
Mexican Cocoa
Coffee mug, heated
Build in glass
3/4 ounce Kahlua
3/4 ounce Brandy
Near fill with hot chocolate
Whipped cream garnish
Sprinkle nutmeg
Xanadu
Champagne glass, chilled
Pour ingredients into iced mixing glass.
1/2 ounce VSOP Cognac
1/2 ounce Cointreau
1/2 ounce sweet ‘n’ sour
Shake and strain. Fill with Champagne, and use a lemon wheel garnish.
Jacqueline
Cocktail glass, chilled
Pour ingredients into iced mixing glass.
2 ounces Bacardi 8 Reserva Rum
3/4 ounce Grand Marnier Centenaire
1/2 ounce Rose’s Lime Juice
1 ounce fresh lime juice
Stir and strain, and use a lime wedge for garnish.
Martini, Fantino
Cocktail glass, chilled
Pour ingredients into iced mixing glass
2 dashes Campari Aperitivo
1/2 ounce limencello liqueur
2 ounces vodka
Stir and strain, then garnish with a lemon twist.
The above recipes are courtesy of Robert Plotkin, expert mixologist and
author of “The Original Guide to American Cocktails and Drinks,” now in
its 5th edition.
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