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Cocktail Recipes

Favorite Holiday Recipes

Favorite Holiday Cocktail Recipes

Apple Cider Sangria

Serves 4
3 (12-ounce) bottles hard apple cider
1 ½ cups fresh apple cider
1 cup ginger beer
½ cup Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
1 apple, 1 pear and 1 orange sliced
handful of cinnamon sticks

Combine all ingredients in a large pitcher. Stir gently.

Serve immediately.

Hot Buttered Brandy

Stir together:
4-6 ounces hot, spiced apple cider
1 Tbsp Hot Buttered Rum batter
1 ½ ounce Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy

Spiked Cider

Stir together:
4-6 ounces hot, spiced apple cider
½ ounce Blueberry Pie Liqueur
1 ½ ounces Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy

Berry Mule

Serve over ice:
2 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry or Raspberry Brandy
squeeze of lime
4 ounces ginger beer
splash of pineapple juice

Blueberry Pie Mimosa

Top your favorite Champagne or sparkling wine with ½-1 ounce Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie Liqueur. Garnish with whole blueberries or cranberries.

Gingersnap

Pour 1 ounce of Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie Liqueur in 12 ounces of Irish Death Strong Ale. It tastes like a gingersnap cookie. Not kidding.

Gin Old Fashioned

3 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Old Tom Gin
3 dashes Angostura or orange bitters
2 tsp. simple syrup
Generous Orange Twist

Pour the gin, bitters and simple syrup into a large glass filled with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into rocks glass and add orange twist.

North Pole Nog

1 ½ oz Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy or Single Malt Whisky
3 oz small batch eggnog

Pour the brandy and eggnog into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg, and serve.

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Old Tom Gin Recipes

Tom Collins

  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • 2 ounces Old Tom Gin
  • 1 ounce simple syrup
  • club soda

Shake lemon juice, gin and simple syrup with ice until well-chilled, about 15 seconds. Strain into ice-filled highball glass. Top with club soda.

Gimlet

  • 2 ounces gin
  • ½ ounce lime
  • ½ ounce simple syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice until well-chilled. Strain into ice-filled glass.

Martini

  • ½ ounce dry vermouth
  • 3 oz gin
  • olive or lemon peel garnish

There are three ways of making a martini: shaken, stirred, and diamond pour. While the first two are pretty well known, the diamond pour is less common. Put both your martini glasses and your bottle of gin in the freezer for six hours minimum. Pour just a few drops of vermouth into the frozen glass, swirl and pour out. Then fill with chilled gin. For a dirty martini, add ½ ounce brine from cocktail olives to above ingredients, shake with ice until well-chilled. Strain and serve.

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Blueberry or Raspberry Brandy Recipes

Mojito

  • 5-10 fresh mint leaves
  • Several lime wedges
  • 1-2 tablespoons simple syrup
  • 2 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry
  • Or Raspberry Brandy
  • Club Soda

Muddle the mint and lime in a highball glass.
Fill with ice and add simple syrup, Brandy, and top with soda.

Floradora

  • 1 ounce Probably Shouldn’t Old Tom Gin
  • 1/2 ounce lime juice (fresh)
  • 1 ounce Raspberry Brandy
  • 4‌ ounces ginger ale or club soda

Combine Gin, Brandy and lime in a highball glass.
Fill with ice and top with ginger ale or soda.
Garnish with fresh raspberries.

Raspberry Mule

  • 2 oz Raspberry Brandy
  • Juice from 1/2lime
  •  4 ounces ginger beer

Pour Raspberry Brandy and lime juice in ice-filled mug.
Top with ginger beer.

Berry Lemonade

Pour 2 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry or Raspberry Brandy into fresh lemonade.
Garnish with fresh berries.

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Apple Brandy Recipes

Sidecar

  • 2 oz. Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
  • ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice (about a quarter of a lemon)
  • ¾ oz. Grand Marnier

Pour all ingredients into ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake well and strain into chilled, sugar-rimmed glass.

Stone Fence

  • 2 oz. Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • ½ – ¾  oz. fresh lemon juice
  • fresh apple cider

Pour brandy and bitters into a chilled old-fashioned glass filled with ice, top with 4-6 ounces cider. Stir

Manhattan

  • 2 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Apple Brandy
  • 1 ounce sweet vermouth
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Pour ingredients over ice, stir well and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with cherry.

Straight Up

In our experience, the best Apple Brandy experience is served in a warmed brandy snifter.

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Blueberry Pie Liqueur Recipes

Blueberry Pie Martini

Pour 4 oz. Blueberry Pie Liqueur into a martini shaker filled with ice.
Add a generous shaving of lime (or lemon zest).
Shake 25-30 seconds.
Pour into chilled glass.
Try with a graham-cracker crumb or brown sugar rimmed glass. Garnish with lime.

Berry Margarita

  • ½ oz fresh lime juice
  • 1 ½ oz tequila
  • 1 ½ oz Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie or Raspberry Brandy or Blueberry Brandy
  • 1 oz simple syrup

Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker and  shake until well chilled.
Pour into an ice-filled, salt-rimmed glass.
Garnish with lime and fresh berries.

Blueberry Pie Mimosa

Top your favorite Champagne or sparkling wine with 1 oz. Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie Liqueur
Garnish with fresh blueberries.

Gingersnap

Pour 2 ounces Probably Shouldn’t Blueberry Pie Liqueur into a glass of Irish Death Strong Ale.
It tastes like a gingersnap cookie. Not kidding.

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