Tag: cocktail

Pisco Sour

Ingredients 2 oz Pisco 1 oz Fresh lime juice ½ oz Simple syrup 1 Pasteurized egg white Garnish Lime wheel 1 dash cocktail bitters Instructions Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel on the edge and drop one dash of bitters in the center of the cocktail before serving. Pisco is a light-colored spirit similar to grappa.  It is produced by distilling the grape pomace and wine after fermentation has oc

5/13/2019•Dun Magazine

Apple Bourbon Bellini

Makes 4 drinks Ingredients 1 Apple, cored and cut into wedges 1 tsp Water 1 tsp Granulated sugar 1/4 tsp Cinnamon 1/8 tsp Ground dried ginger 1/2 tsp Fresh squeezed lemon juice 4 onces Bourbon 1 bottle Prosecco or Champagne Garnish Thinly sliced apple Cinnamon stick Fresh ground nutmeg Instructions Combine apple, water, sugar, lemon juice, and spices in a blender. Blend until smooth. Place a heaping tablespoon of the apple puree into the bottom of each champagne flute. Add 1 once of bourbon t

11/5/2018•Dun Magazine

The Pink Lady: a Catskill Legend

A good stream-side stiffener never fails to elevate a good story...but we must wait and travel back to the late 19th century. We travel to  a famous Catskill inn, sit by a hand-hewn, rock fireplace to remove our waders and boots. We hang our rods by the fire before we partake of the bar that was built to connect and serve both this raconteur’s retreat and the main lodge—home to our subject, The Pink Lady. There, not one, but two pink ladies await. One, just off the dawn and dusk stream - rode ha

7/20/2018•Rita R Schimpff

The Pink Lady

Ingredients 1.5 oz        Rutte Dry Gin .75 oz        Applejack .25 oz        Lemon Juice 2 dashes   Homemade Grenadine 1                 Pasteurized Egg White Optional    Heavy Cream Garnish     Maraschino Cherry Directions In your favorite cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients over cracked ice. Shake vigorously until the shaker frosts up. Double strain into cocktail glass of your choice and garnish. Serve straight up. Grenadine 1 cup        Sugar 1 cup        Pomegranite Juice 1 TBL

7/20/2018•Dun Magazine

A Sweeter Negroni

Ingredients 1 oz     Melborne Gin Company Dry Gin 1 oz     Dolin Rouge Vermouth 1 oz     Aperol Aperitivo 3 Dashes     Fee Brothers Orange Bitters 1/16 tsp     Sugar 1     Thick Orange Slice Garnish     Orange Zest Directions In your favorite cocktail shaker, muddle the orange, sugar, and the bitters, taking care not to crush the rind of the orange. Add ice to the shaker, and build the cocktail by combing the gin, vermouth, and aperol. Shake the cocktail vigorously, and double strain into a c

3/21/2018•Dun Magazine

S'mores Adult Hot Chocolate

Ingredients 2 Servings 2 cups Almond Milk 1/2 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips 2 Graham Crackers Crushed 2 tbsp Local Honey 1/4 cup Chocolate Syrup 1/4 cup Chocolate Pudding Mix 4 oz Brandy 1 oz Grand Marnier Garnish Marshmallows Directions Heat milk in medium sauce pan. Meanwhile, melt chocolate chips in microwave. Dip the rim of your mugs in the melted chocolate and crushed graham crackers, and set aside. Add remaining melted chocolate to milk, along with honey and chocolate syrup, and whisk

11/15/2017•Dun Magazine

Vodka Tonic

2 oz Dry Fly Vodka 1 tbsp Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice 1/2 tsp Fine Sugar 1/16 tsp Quinine Powder 2 dashes Orange Bitters Top Club Soda Garnish Half Lemon Round To Build this Cocktail Fill  your favorite cocktail shaker with high quality, large cubes of ice.  Add vodka, lemon juice, quinine powder, sugar and bitters.  Shake the cocktail till chilled.  Double strain into a chilled old fashion glass with fresh ice.  Top with club soda and garnish.  Immediately head to your nearest porch and enjoy.

6/30/2017•Dun Magazine

Martinez Martini

Ice Cubes 1 oz Gin 2 oz  Sweet Vermouth .5 oz  Luxardo Liqueur 2 drops Orange Bitters 2 drops Old Fashion Bitters To build: Chill your favorite martini glass. Combine all of the ingredients into your shaker, add fresh ice cubes and shake.  Double strain the cocktail into your chilled martini glass and enjoy. The Martinez is one of our favorite cocktails.  This drink is thought to be the precursor to the modern martini.  In yesteryear, consumers liked a little more sweetness in their cockt

12/1/2016•Dun Magazine

Sangria Oro

Ice Cubes 1 Apple - Sliced 1    Orange - Sliced 1     Lemon - Sliced 5 oz Apple Cider 1/2 Lemon - Juiced 2 oz Vodka 5 oz Licor 43 12 oz Cava In a large pitcher combine ice and fruit.  Add the cider, lemon juice, vodka, Licor 43 and chill.  Just before serving open a chilled bottle of Cava and carefully pour into the pitcher.  Stir and serve immediately. Punch drinks are a staple at DUN gatherings.  If you're thinking about the water-downed drinks you would get at the church functions o

10/1/2016•Dun Magazine

The Cuban Mojito

2 oz       Cuban Rum 1.5 oz    Lime juice 6            Mint Leaves 1 tsp     Sugar top.       Club Soda To Build: Place your lime juice, sugar and mint in the bottom of your glass.  Use a muddler to bruise the mint and begin melting the sugar.  Add ice and rum to glass and stir to chill.  Top with club soda and a fresh sprig of mint and a lime wedge. The Mojito is Cuba’s oldest cocktail.  We were lucky enough here at the DUN offices to have a good friend head down to Cuba this year.  We to

8/1/2016•Dun Magazine

The Moscow Mule

2 oz Vodka 1/2 oz    Lime juice top         Ginger beer Fill your mug with ice, combine the vodka, lime juice and ginger beer.  Stir the drink gently to combine the ingredients.  Garnish with a sprig of mint and a lime wheel. The Moscow  Mule was one of the first vodka cocktails popular in the U.S.. Created in 1941 at the Chatham Hotel in Manhattan, the drink was conceived by three friends enjoying a drink at the hotel bar. The thought was to combine 2 ounces of Smirnoff vodka with Cock ‘n’

6/1/2016•Dun Magazine

The Liberty Cocktail

1 tsp   Sugar 1          Lime wedge 1 oz     Calvados (Apple Brandy) 3/4 oz  Light Rum Place the lime wedge in a heavy bottomed Old Fashioned Glass and add the sugar.  Muddle the lime and sugar together until the sugar dissolves. Fill the glass halffull with ice.  Pour the Calvados and Rum, then stir. If you can’t find Calvados, Applejack can be used as a substitute.  Enjoy this cocktail and toast to the Consitutional Amendment of your choice. This cocktail is light and refreshing.  There

4/1/2016•Dun Magazine