Whiskey Recipes for the Winter Season

Winter is the season of dark spirits and cozy nights, and whiskey is the perfect spirit to highlight on your seasonal cocktail menus.

We've rounded up a few examples of whiskey cocktail recipes perfect for your winter cocktail menus.

Easy, Now Party Punch

Ingredients:

4 ounces Fraser & Thompson North American Whiskey

1 cup pomegranate juice

Zest of 1 orange

1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

1 (750 ml) bottle Prosecco or sparkling wine, chilled

Arils from 1 pomegranate

Directions: 

1. In a large pitcher, combine Fraser & Thompson, pomegranate juice, orange zest and orange juice. 

2. Chill until ready to serve. 

3. Just before serving, add ice to the punch bowl and pour over the contents of the pitcher. 

4. Top with Prosecco and pomegranate arils. 

Highlands Scotch: Sherry Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 oz The Glendronach Original Aged 12 Years

1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth

1 dash Angostura Bitters

Garnish: Filthy Black Cherry

Directions: 

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. 

2. Stir until very cold and strain into a chilled coupe. 

3. Garnish with cherry.

Mash & Mallow Campfire Mule

1.5 ounce Mash & Mallow

0.75 oz lemon juice

0.25 oz Amaretto

Dashes of angostura bitters

Top with ginger beer

Garnish: 3 tiny marshmallows on a pick

Directions:

1. Add Mash & Mallow, lemon juice and Amaretto into a Collins glass. 
2. Top with ice cubes. 
3. Add dash of angostura butters. 
4. Top with a ginger beer and stir gently. 
5. Garnish with 3 tiny marshmallows on a pick.

Winter Whiskey Sour

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz blended scotch whisky

1/2 oz Monin Winter Citrus Syrup

1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz orange juice

Garnish: Orange peel

Directions:

1. Fill serving glass full of ice.
2. Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
3. Cap, shake and strain into serving glass with ice.
4. Add garnish and serve.

The Smokey Margarita

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz. Tequila Herradura Silver

½ oz. Benriach The Smoky Ten Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky ​

½ oz. Fresh Lemon Juice

½ oz. Fresh Lime Juice

¾ oz. Agave Nectar

Smoked Salt (garnish)

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients except Benriach to a shaker. 

2. Add ice and shake vigorously. 

3. Strain into a margarita glass half-rimmed with smoked salt and filled with fresh ice. 

4. Float Benriach on top over a bar spoon.
    

Blood Orange Manhattan

Ingredients:

2 oz rye whisky

1/2 oz sweet vermouth

1/2 oz Monin Blood Orange Syrup

1 dashes orange bitters

Garnish: Orange peel

Directions:

1. Chill serving glass.
2. Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
3. Stir vigorously to chill, and strain into chilled serving glass.
4. Add garnish and serve.

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