It's time to organise your favourite feast and get the bar ready for your New Year Eve soiree. As we near the close of a whirlwind year and the happiest time of the year, it's finally time to put on your party hats and dance shoes for all of the home parties. Here are a few cocktail recipes to add a special touch to the time you will spend with loved ones.
Bubbly Bees Knees
INGREDIENTS:
50 ml Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin
25 ml Lemon Juice
20 ml Runny Honey
40 ml G. H. Mumm Champagne
HOW TO MIX IT:
Shake the Monkey 47 gin, lemon juice and runny honey with ice
Strain into a coupe or champagne saucer/ flute
Top with champagne and garnish with lemon zest or a wheel.
Bees Knees
Irish Coffee
INGREDIENTS:
35ml Jameson
10ml Demerara and Muscovado sugar syrup
30ml lightly whipped double cream
90ml medium roasted espresso coffee
30ml lightly whipped double cream
1 vanilla pod or cinnamon for garnish
Fresh grated nutmeg
HOW TO MIX:
Dissolve 2 parts Demerara sugar and 1-part Muscovado sugar in 3 parts of boiling water for the syrup
Stir sugar syrup into 35ml Jameson in a warmed glass
Whip 30ml chilled double cream lightly until it starts to stiffen
Brew a 45ml shot of coffee into the glass from your espresso machine
Reload and brew in a second 45ml shot
Pour the whipped cream into the coffee over the back of a spoon so it floats on top.
Garnish with a trimmed vanilla pod or a stick of cinnamon and dust with a grating of fresh nutmeg
Irish Coffee
Pomegranate Negroni
INGREDIENTS:
40ml Beefeater Dry 30ml Campari
25ml Lillet Blanc
10ml pomegranate juice
2 dashes orange bitters
Garnish: Orange twist
HOW TO MIX:
This cocktail is curated by mixing all ingredients well with some ice (in a cocktail shaker)
Stir until its chilled, strain into class and add ice, and garnish!
Top with soda for a twist on an Americano
Pomegranate Negroni
Made In Scotland
INGREDIENTS:
Singleton: 60ml
Sugar Syrup: 10ml
Lime Juice: 20 ml
Cucumber: 3 Slices
Mint: 4 Sprigs
To Garnish: Cucumber slice with mint
HOW TO MIX:
Add 3 cucumber slices and 4 mint sprigs to a cocktail shaker
Combine 60 ml, Singleton, 20 ml lime juice and 10 ml sugar syrup in a mixing bowl.
Garnish it with a cucumber slice with mint
Made In Scotland
Royalty
INGREDIENTS:
Black & White Scotch: 60ml
Cinnamon Syrup: 10ml
Lime Juice: 20ml
Ginger Ale: 100ml
Ice: 3-4 Cubes
HOW TO MIX:
Fill your highball glass with some ice and pour 60ml Black & White Scotch Whisky into it
20ml fresh lime juice and 10ml cinnamon syrup are to be poured on top