Category: Terry’s Terrific Cocktails

  • Lady in Red.

    A beautiful and delicious drink with bourbon, pomegranate juice, and ginger beer that certainly can make any season bright!

    What you’ll need.

    1.5 ounce Maker’s Mark bourbon

    1 ounce POM Pomegranate Juice .

    5 ounce lemon juice

    Ginger Beer chilled

    How to make it.

    Step 1. Combine lemon juice, pomegranate juice and bourbon in a cocktail shaker filled with ice

    Step 2. Shake vigorously for a minute then pour over ice in a rocks glass and top off with ginger beer.

  • Monica’s Death Punch.

    Not many of us can say that we didn’t enjoy a bit of Friends back in its heyday, whether it was a guilty pleasure or not, so why not sit back, relax and enjoy a glass of this Friends inspired cocktail!

    What you’ll need.

    0.75 oz Dark Rum

    0.75 oz White Rum

    0.75 oz Light Or Gold Rum

    .5 oz Strawberry Syrup

    2 oz Pineapple Juice

    .5 oz Lime Juice

    How to make it.

    Mix all ingredients in a shaker.

    Strain over ice

    enjoy!

  • The Yellow Bird.

    The Yellow Bird cocktail is a must try! You’ll love the bright color and balanced flavor of this drink, with notes of vanilla and licorice.

    Here’s a tasty sweet and sour cocktail that’s uniquely delicious: the Yellow Bird cocktail! This bright yellow drink is a sour cocktail with a little extra bling: a nuanced finish with notes of vanilla and licorice. The sophistication comes from Galliano, a bright yellow Italian liqueur that’s worth grabbing for this recipe. Alex and I were extraordinarily impressed with this one, as we were with other cocktails using this fancy liqueur. Here’s how to make the Yellow Bird drink!

    The Yellow Bird is a cocktail made with rum, Galliano liqueur, triple sec, and lime juice. There’s very little known about its history. Some people think it was named after a Haitian song called the Yellow Bird, others think it was named for the bright yellow Galliano liqueur. It’s hard to know when it was invented. Our best guess it that it was invented sometime in the 1960s or 70s, when Galliano rose to popularity in the US. The Yellow Bird reminds us of the Golden Dream and Golden Cadillac, Galliano cocktails born in the 1950’s and 60’s.

    What you’ll need.

    2 ounces* white rum

    1 ounce Galliano liqueur

    1 ounce triple sec (or Cointreau)

    1 ounce fresh lime juice

    For the garnish: Lime slice and cocktail cherry

    How to make it.

    Step 1.

    Place the rum, Galliano, triple sec, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Add 2 handfuls of ice and shake until cold.

    Step 2.

    Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime strip and cocktail cherry if desired

  • Purple People Eater.

    It” may have been a one-eyed, one-horned flyin’ purple people eater. but the drink that was named after that ugly, terrifying monster is drop-dead gorgeous. It’s a deep, sparkling purple, and the pretty glittery purple sugar around the rim adds even more sass and glamor. It takes only 5 minutes to make and has a sweet, sharply tart flavor that’s hard not to love.

    What you’ll need.

    30ml sweet and sour mix

    30ml blue curacao

    45ml vodka

    30ml grenadine

    30ml Cranberry or grape juice

    Purple sugar Gold edible glitter to garnish

    How to make it.

    Tip the purple sugar onto a small saucer, wet the rim of a glass with water and dip it into the purple sugar,

    set the glass on one side.

    Combine vodka, blue curacao, sweet and sour mix, grenadine, and cranberry juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake thoroughly.

    Fill the glass half full with ice and Pour in the purple people eater cocktail, sprinkle lightly with the gold edible glitter and serve.

  • Raspberry, Lemon and Lime Ginger Beer.

    What you’ll need.

    .75 oz raspberry puree

    1.5 oz of Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer, Lemon and Lime

    Splash of limoncello

    4 oz champagne

    Squeeze of lime juice

    Fresh raspberries

    How to make it.

    Add raspberry puree, ginger beer, and limoncello into a champagne glass and stir.

    Top with champagne and a squeeze of lime juice.

    Garnish with fresh raspberries.

  • The Jolene.

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

    What you’ll need.

    1.5 oz Sweet Tea Vodka

    .5 oz Peach Schnapps

    2 oz Ginger Beer

    Sprig Mint

    Garnish Peach

    How to make it.

    Mix all ingredients in a mason jar and fill with ice.

    Garnish with slices of fresh peach and a mint sprig

  • Damn The Weather Cocktail.

    No one likes being cooped up in the house during a snowstorm—or a polar vortex, as the weathermen seem to be calling it these days. That is unless you happen to have all the ingredients on hand to mix up one of these little wintry potions. First cited in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930, Damn the Weather is a typical Prohibition style cocktail, complementing gin with vermouth and citrus and rounding the whole thing off with a little bit of triple sec. Orange is the dominant flavor here, but the vermouth adds a certain earthy and herbal note which is accented by the gin. Like many cocktails from the Prohibition era, Damn the Weather contains more than just a little bit of alcohol, but that’s alright. You weren’t planning on going anywhere anyway, were you?

    What you’ll need.

    · 1 Ounce(s) Gin

    · 1/2 Ounce(s) Orange juice

    · 1/4 Ounce(s) Sweet Vermouth

    · 1/4 Ounce(s) Triple Sec

    How to make it.

    Shake with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

    Serve in a Cocktail Glass.

  • The Midnight Train.

    What you’ll need.

    · 1 1/2 ounce Dickel 8 year

    · 1 oz Averna Amaro

    · 1 oz lemon juice

    · 1 oz simple syrup

    How to make it.

    1. Fill a cocktail shaker half full with ice.

    2. Add ingredients and shake 10-15 seconds.

    3. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

  • Vodka Soda Fruit Smash Orange.

    What you’ll need.

    50ml vodka

    150ml Soda water

    1/2 orange

    Cubed ice

    How to make it.

    Add 1/2 a orange in chunks to a chilled glass and muddle and smash with a muddler, pestle or spoon.

    Fill glass with ice.

    Add vodka and top up with soda water.

  • Unicorn Freak Shake.

    Absolutely perfect for those hot sunny days in the garden.

    What you’ll need.

    30ml Strawberry Vodka,

    30ml White chocolate liqueur,

    A splash of milk,

    Strawberry ice cream,

    Garnish. E.G; whipped cream,

    glitter sugar sprinkles.

    How to make it.

    1. Rim the edge of your glass with frosting and sprinkles, set aside. 2. In a blender, combine ice cream, milk, strawberry vodka and white chocolate liqueur until smooth.

    3. Pour it into your garnished glass and top with whipped cream and the glitter sugar sprinkles.

    Sit back and enjoy, a very naughty but very nice treat 😋😊