• Welcome!
  • Contact
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
The LUSHious Life
  • Cocktails
    • Turkey Day Turn Up
    • Grown Folks Hot Chocolate
    • Post Holiday Re-entry
    • Cocktail of the Week
    • Sunday Night Cocktail
    • Mad Men and the Martini
  • Libation Education
    • I’ll Take Manhattan
    • Why So Sour?
    • A Taste of South Africa
    • The One Book You Need to Become a Mix Master
    • All You Need to Become a Mix Master
    • Do, Do Rum Rum!
    • It’s a Gin, Gin, Gin World
    • The Spirit of Brazil
  • Reviews
    • Rum Renaissance: Cockspur
    • Nip Nip, Hooray!
    • The Ultimate Baller’s Vodka
  • On the Town
    • It’s Negroni Week!
Cocktail  /  November 25, 2015

Happy Drinksgiving!

by sharonrboone
Share
Twitter0
Pinterest0
Facebook0

Cocktails

Thanksgiving  presents a lot of traditional reasons to drink: Catching up with old friends spending time with family, getting  annoyed at old frenemies, and being forced to spend time with certain family members. TheLUSHiouslife has come up with a few, less obvious-but-still-completely-valid reasons to bend your elbow this weekend, plus a few suggestions on just what you should be sipping.

 

Because you’re sick of pumpkin spice…it’s cranberry’s time to shine.

Virgil's Cranberry Gobbler - Thanksgiving Special

The Cranberry Gobbler

from Erin Ward, Beverage Director at Virgil’s Real Barbecue in NYC

 

Ingredients:
2 oz Wild Turkey Bourbon
1 oz cranberry sauce pureed
¼ oz of simple syrup (splash)
3 oz fresh lemonade
Shake with ice. Serve in a glass jar or mug. Garnish with an orange slice.

 

 

 

Deep Eddy Cranberry

Cranberry sauce

Ingredients (Serves 12):

½ cup Deep Eddy Cranberry Vodka

6 oz. cranberries

Orange zest

½ cup sugar

½ cup water

2 tbs. triple sec

In a saucepan, add cranberries, sugar and water over moderate heat. Stir frequently for sugar to dissolve. Reduce heat to moderately low; stir, until thickened and reduced to about 3 cups. Pour mixture in a bowl and stir until lukewarm. Pour in vodka and triple sec and add orange zest. Transfer to serving bowl, cover, and refrigerate until chilled and set.  (At least 2 hours.)

 

 

Spiked Cranberry Brew_White

Spiked Cranberry Brew

1½ oz. DeLeón Platinum Tequila6 oz. hot cranberry batch (1 part fresh unsweetened cranberry juice, ¾ part fresh lemon juice, ¾ part simple syrup, cinnamon clove and nutmeg to taste)

Simmer together ingredients for hot cranberry batch. Combine hot cranberry batch with DeLeón Platinum Tequila in glass mug. Garnish with a thin pear slice dusted with cinnamon.

 

 

 

The Captain Cider

The Captain Cider

1 oz. Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum

1½ oz Cranberry Juice

1½ oz Hard Cider

 

Combine all ingredients in a rocks glass filled with ice, garnish with apple wedges and cranberry.

 


 

Because your parents have had a mystery bottle of Midori in their liquor cabinet since you were in high school but no one ever knew what to do with it.

Midori Cider

 

Midori Cider

Ingredients:

1 part Midori Melon Liqueur

2 parts Apple Cider

1 Wedge of Lemon

1 Apple for garnish (optional)

Method: Fill the glass with ice and pour in Midori. Squeeze 1 wedge of lemon and drop in the glass. Add apple cider, stir gently, and garnish with an apple slice (optional).

 


 

Because even though your family still insists on calling you Junebug, you’re a grown-ass woman with sophisticated tastes.

 

 

Laphroaig_Montgomerie Smoked Cider

Laphroaig Montgomerie Smoked Cider

1½ parts Laphroaig 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

3 parts Apple Cider

1 part Fresh Lemon Sour

Build over ice in order. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

 

VodkaAlexander_FINAL

Vodka Alexander

1½ oz Cîroc Vodka

1 oz Dark Crème de Cacao

1 oz cream

Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg and serve in a round rocks glass.


 

Because, during the holidays, your favorite flavor is “sparkling.”

Cruzan Sparkling Honey Diamond

Cruzan Sparkling Honey Diamond

 

1½ parts Cruzan Estate Diamond Dark Rum

¾ part Lime Juice

¾ part Honey Syrup

Sparkling Wine

Combine rum, juice and syrup over ice and shake for 15 seconds. Fine strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with sparking wine.

 


 

Because if you’re going to get through spending a day with your extended family, you’re gonna need draanks stat. The suggestion: Flavored spirits that only need soda or one or 2 mixers to be sip-ready.

PIEHOLE bottle shot (3)

CiderPiehole Apple Cider

1 oz Piehole Apple Pie

½ oz Sweet Vermouth

3 oz Cider

¾ oz Lemon Juice

3 dashes of Angostura Bitters

 

 

 

Cherry FizzCherry Fizz

1½ oz. Piehole Cherry Pie

Top with Soda Water

Cherry garnish

 

 

 

 

 

Crannon Blast

Crannon Blast

1½ oz. Captain Morgan Cannon Blast

½ oz. Cranberry Juice

Shake with ice and strain into a shot glass.

 

Blasted Apple

Blasted Apple

1¼ oz. Captain Morgan Cannon Blast

¼ oz. Crown Royal Regal Apple

Tags

  • Captain Morgan Cannon Blast
  • Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum
  • Cîroc
  • Cruzan Estate Diamond Dark Rum
  • Deep Eddy Cranberry Vodka
  • DeLeón Platinum Tequila
  • Laphroaig
  • Midori
  • Piehole Apple pie
  • Piehole Cherry Pie
  • Thanksgiving
  • Wild Turkey Bourbon

Post navigation

Sour Grapes: Cocktail of the Week
Jägermeister (yes, Jäger) reconsidered

Related posts

Liquid Banana Pudding Cocktail and Blue Chair Bay Rum Giveaway
Cocktail, Contest  /  May 20, 2015
by sharonrboone  /  8 Comments

Liquid Banana Pudding Cocktail and Blue Chair Bay Rum Giveaway

Jägermeister (yes, Jäger) reconsidered
Cocktail  /  December 11, 2015
by sharonrboone  /  4 Comments

Jägermeister (yes, Jäger) reconsidered

The Cocktail for When You Just Can’t Even
Cocktail  /  September 18, 2015
by sharonrboone  /  2 Comments

The Cocktail for When You Just Can’t Even

Share your thoughts Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Elara Pro by LyraThemes.com
  • Made by LyraThemes.com