1 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
½ oz. butterscotch schnapps
½ oz. Goldschlager cinnamon schnapps
Combine ingredients, shake, strain, & pour into shot glass.

2 oz. gin
1 oz. lemon juice
1 tsp. superfine sugar
3 oz. club soda

In a shaker with ice, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a collins glass with ice. Top with club soda. Stir and garnish with a cherry and the orange slice.

3 oz. Samuel Adams Cold Snap
1 oz. Bourbon
.5 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
.5 oz. Lemon juice
.5 oz. sugar

 

Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a rocks glass. Top with Samuel Adams Cold Snap. Lightly grate nutmeg to garnish.

1 oz. Conch Republic Dark Rum
1/2 oz. light rum
1/2 oz. Malibu coconut
Mix with equal parts pineapple juice and orange juice, splash of grenadine

Joe Cortner
Conch Flyer
Key West, FL

1 oz. Pinnacle Pumpkin Pie Vodka
½ oz. Rum Chata
1/3 oz. Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
splash heavy cream
½ scoop each vanilla & chocolate ice cream

Combine all ingredients in a blender with ice. Pour into a hurricane glass. Garnish with shaved chocolate and sprinkle nutmeg.

 

Chrissy Lopez
Cianfano’s
Elizabeth, N.J.

3 parts Pendleton Whisky
1 part   triple sec
1 part   fresh squeezed oj
1 part   fresh squeezed limejuice
Top off with ginger ale

Muddle sage leaf with orange slice in glass; add liquids; pour into old-fashioned glass; garnish with an orange slice and a sage leaf.

 

Caitlin Vargas

1.5 oz. Cognac
.25 oz. lillet rose
.25 oz. cointreau
.5 oz. fresh lemon juice
.75 oz. simple syrup
.75 oz. cranberry puree
4 dashes absinthe

Served up in a cocktail glass/coupe with a lemon wheel

Daniel Barnes
Ghibellina
Arlington, Washington DC

1/3 oz. Absinthe
1 3/4 oz. cognac
one sugar cube
3 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
Rye whiskey

Rinse a chilled old-fashioned glass with absinthe, add crushed ice and set it aside. Stir the remaining ingredients over ice and set it aside. Discard the ice and any excess absinthe from the prepared glass, strain the drink. Add lemon peel for garnish.

½ pint lager or stout
½ pint hard cider
dash black currant syrup

Pour the cider first, then the beer, into a pint glass, and top with syrup.

1 1/2 oz. whiskey
1 ½ oz. lemon juice
3/4 oz. sugar or simple syrup

Serve straight up or over ice. Combine ingredients and garnish with a maraschino cherry and orange slice.