Cocktail Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Anejo tequila
1 oz. Domaine de Canton Ginger liqueur
1 tsp. Agave
1/2 oz. lime juice
2 tsp. ginger simple syrup
Cilantro
Ginger root
Ginger Ale

Instructions:
Muddle cilantro, ginger root and simple syrup in glass. mix all ingredients except ginger ale in a Boston shaker. Strain into an old fashioned glass and top with ginger ale and garnish with a lime wedge.

Cocktail Ingredients:
2 oz. Anejo tequila
1 oz. lime juice
3/4 oz. simple syrup
Fresh cilantro
1 bottle Mexican beer

Instructions:
In a tall glass muddle cilantro, lime and simple syrup. Mix all ingredients except the beer in a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in glass and top with beer.

Cocktail Ingredients:
4 sprigs of cilantro
4 mint leaves
1/4 lime
1 peeled and halved kiwi
1/2 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tbsp. water
2 oz. rum
club soda

Instructions:
Muddle kiwi, cilantro and mint together. Add rum and ice then fill with club soda. Garnish with lime.

Cocktail Ingredients:
3 slices fresh, ripe mango
Pinch of ground chili pepper
2 slices fresh lime
4 sprigs of cilantro
Crushed ice
1.5 oz tequila
Splash orange juice

Instructions:
Muddle mango, chili pepper, cilantro and lime together then add tequila. Shake and serve with a lime garnish.

The Irish version of a Moscow Mule:

Cocktail Ingredients:
2 oz. Irish Whiskey
3 lime wedges
3 oz. Ginger Beer

Instructions:
In a highball glass pour Irish Whiskey over ice, squeeze lime and top with ginger beer.

Cocktail Ingredients:
2 oz Irish whiskey
1 oz sour apple schnapps
2 oz white cranberry juice

Instructions:
Add all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a fresh apple slice.

Cocktail Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Irish Cream
1/2 oz. dark creme de cocoa
1 oz. amaretto
Hot chocolate
Whipped Cream
Hershey’s Kiss

Instructions:
Pour all of the alcohol in a mug and top with hot chocolate. Add whipped cream to the top and garnish with the Hershey’s Kiss

Cocktail Ingredients:
2 Dark rum
1 tsp. sugar
Lime juice
Strawberry syrup
2 Strawberries

Instructions:
Pour all ingredients and ice into a blender and blend till ice is crushed. Serve in a daiquiri or martini glass.

This is not a girly choco-tini! It’s full on Old Fashioned with a chocolate Cocoa twist.

Cocktail Ingredients:
2 ounces Pricahrd’s Double Chocolate Bourbon Whiskey
1 sugar cube
3 dashes bitters
club soda

Instructions:
Place the sugar in an Old-Fashioned glass. Add 3 dashes of Angostura bitters and a splash of water or club soda. Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler OR strong spoon. Rotate the glass so that the sugar grains and bitters give it a lining. Add a large ice cube. Pour in the bourbon. Serve with a stirring rod. Garnish with a sliver of chocolate.

At the end of December a wonderful thing happened, Tennessee based Prichard’s Distillery and Nashville, TN based Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Company released their collaboration Double Chocolate Bourbon Whiskey. At first you may be thinking that this would be a sacrilegious experiment trying to make bourbon into a vodka for girly chocolate martinis, let quickly calm your nerves to know that this is pure heaven. Instead of going for the creamy smooth rich chocolate taste that would ruin a great bourbon, they grasped for more of the cocoa bean essence which blend wonderfully with the bourbon.

The Double Barreled Bourbon normally has a toffee, vanilla, caramel, dried fruit flavor to it that when adding the cocoa bean flavor makes it pop to the perfect sipping whiskey. For around $55, it’s a bit steep but a nice whiskey to add to your collection and have around the house. Next up, I have to see how it tastes in a Manhattan!

Happy drinking!