Learn How to Make 6 Cocktails -- in 15 Seconds

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This time of year, the cold weather and holiday spirit drive us inside to celebrate and reconnect with family and friends over cookies, and comfort food, and, of course, drinks. There's no better time to try a new cocktail recipe than now -- when you undoubtedly have a willing and thirsty audience. As such, we've spent this week sharing videos of how to make our favorite winter drinks. Have a look for yourself, then get out your mixing glass, invite a few friends over, and toast to better cocktails for all.

Bowery Punch

Serves 6

12 white sugar cubes
8 ounces club soda, divided
6 ounces Tanqueray gin
2 ounces Cappelletti, or other similar bitter apertif
2 ounces grapefruit juice
2 ounces lemon juice
4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Grapefruit slices for garnish

See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.

 

Maple Old-Fashioned

Serves 1

1 1/2 ounces Crown Royal Canadian whisky
1 barspoon maple simple syrup
1 to 2 dashes Fee Brothers bitters, or other aromatic bitters
Lemon peel for garnish

See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.

 

Vesper

Serves 2

1 1/2 ounces Ketel One vodka
1/2 ounce Tanqueray gin
1/4 to 1/2 ounces Lillet Blanc
Lemon peel, for garnish

See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.

Manhattan

Serves 1

1 1/2 ounces Bulleit rye whiskey
3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 maraschino cherry, for garnish

 

Mid-Winter Margarita

Serves 4

4 1/2 ounces Don Julio Blanco tequila
2 1/4 ounces triple sec
2 1/4 ounces fresh lime juice
2 1/4 ounces fresh grapefruit juice
2 fresh lime wheels for garnish
Chile salt (1:1 sea salt and ground chile peppers)

See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.

 

Queens Park Swizzle

Serves 1

6 mint leaves, torn
1 1/2 ounces Captain Morgan white rum
1/2 ounce lime juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
Angostura bitters

Photo by Mark Weinberg; videos by Kyle Orosz

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