Category: Whiskey (blended)

Thanksgiving Cocktails

Ten cocktails have been selected as excellent fall cocktails to enjoy during Thanksgiving. The most common themes include flavors of maple, apple, or cranberry. Unlike many other cocktail sites, none of the cocktails below are overly infused with fruit purees,...

American Pie Cocktail

From Guy Fieri and the Food Network comes the AMERICAN PIE COCKTAIL. It’s easy to make and combines a surprisingly pleasing blend of cranberry juice, apple liqueur and whiskey. It’s surprising only in that the cocktail’s name sounds like it...

Brennivin Old-Fashioned

The BRENNIVIN OLD-FASHIONED is locally known in Iceland as Harry’s Old-Fashioned. It was created in 2014 by Harry Sheff (Cocktails & Cologne) and is popular for its mix of the Icelandic “aquavit,” Brennivin, with rye whiskey and bitters. This is...

Cooper Union

The COOPER UNION is a Sazerac-style whiskey cocktail that pre-rinses a glass with peaty Scotch instead of the traditional absinthe.The base is Irish whiskey with a smaller amount of St-Germain liqueur. The recipe is pulled from Death & Company‘s classic...

Irish Maid

The IRISH MAID is a botanical Irish whiskey cocktail with the coolness of cucumber to make it perfect for summer. Instead of muddling lemon in a shaker prior to the mix (as in a Whiskey Smash), cucumber is muddled and...

St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails

10 Must-Try Irish-Whiskey Cocktails — With Irish whiskey having its long industrious reputation in whiskey distillation, how better to celebrate than with an Irish whiskey cocktail? Several names below are variations of a Manhattan using Irish whiskey, presenting a sometimes...

Emerald

It’s an Irish-whiskey Manhattan — the EMERALD. But it more closely resembles the Scottish Highlander in that it infuses the orange flavors from orange bitters and orange peel into an Irish whiskey instead of maraschino cherry into bourbon or rye....