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.

 

Vanilla Bean Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

2 parts Monkey Shoulder

1 tsp vanilla simple syrup

1 shake angostura bitters

1 or 2 maraschino cherries

Directions: 

1. Combine ice and ingredients in mixing glass
2. Stir for 15 seconds
3. Strain over fresh ice in DOF/Rocks glass
4. Garnish with orange peel

 

North Star 

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Duke & Dame 

1/2 oz Amaretto 

2 oz Pressed Apple Juice 

2 Dashes of Grated Nutmeg 

2 Dashes of Cinnamon 

Star Anise (Garnish) 

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in shaker tin
2. Shake with ice until well chilled
3. Strain into chilled coupe glass
4. Garnish with star anise

 

 

Glendalough Very Old Fashioned

Ingredients:

2 oz. Glendalough Double Barrel Whiskey

⅓ oz. Simple syrup

2 dashes of Bitters

Fresh Orange Peel

Directions:

1. Add all the ingredients to a tumbler
2. Stir
3. Add ice and stir again
4. Garnish with a twisted orange peel

 

Mellow and Merry Mule

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Four Roses Small Batch

2 oz cranberry juice

4 oz ginger beer

Splash of lime juice

Cranberries for garnish

Sprig of rosemary for garnish

Directions:

1. Fill a glass with ice
2. Add all liquid ingredients
3. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and fresh cranberries

 

Home For The Holidays

Recipe by Freeland Bourbon

Ingredients:

2 oz Freeland Bourbon Reese’s Puffs infused Cask Bourbon 

1⁄2 oz toasted marshmallow simple syrup

3-4 dashes smoked vanilla bitters

3-4 dashes Amargo Chuncho bitters

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to a mixing glass
2. Add ice and stir for 30-40 seconds
3. Strain into a rocks glass over a large cube
4. Garnish with mini Reese's cup and mini marshmallows

 

Holiday Jams 

Ingredients: 

1.75 oz Uncle Nearest Straight Rye Whiskey 

0.5 oz. Sorrel Hibiscus Liqueur

1 bar spoon Apricot jam

3 dashes Aromatic bitters

Orange peel for garnish 

 

Directions: Build all ingredients in a cocktail mixing glass and mix with a cocktail spoon until the jam is incorporated. Add ice and stir cold for 20 seconds. Fine stain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube. Garnish with an orange swift.