We've all been there: You want to go out for a drink, because you deserve more than a sad whiskey on the rocks at home, but it's just too much effort to get out of your cozy bunny pjs. What is one to do? Fear not, friends. Here's how you can make an A+ cocktail from the comforts of your home with these recipes from Lyn 65, Lawless Distilling Company, and Revival. Cheers!
Lyn 65 — Everything Nice
Everything Nice is a gin-based cocktail with warm spices of fall, balanced with notes of peach, citrus, and thyme—the perfect ingredients to ring in fall without totally letting go of summer.
Ingredients
- 2 oz gin
- .5 oz Rothman and Winter Peach Liquor
- .75 oz Allspice Dram
- .75 oz fresh lime juice
- .25 oz Demerara Sugar Syrup
- Thyme
Directions
- Combine all ingredients
- Shake with ice
- Strain
- Garnish with a thyme leaf
Lawless — Cherry Bark Collins
The Cherry Bark Collins is the hottest cocktail on the Lawless Cocktail Room menu. Yours can be just as good, even without the gold-painted dried orange garnish.
Ingredients
- .75 oz lemon juice
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 2 oz Greenway Gin
- 4-5 dashes of Bittercube Cherry Bark Vanilla Bitters
- 2 oz seltzer
Directions
- Combine all ingredients, except for seltzer
- Shake with ice
- Add seltzer
- Double strain over ice
- Top with ice
Revival —The Grape and the Pear
We're giving you a sneak peek here at Revival St. Paul's brand new cocktail program. The Grape and the Pear will make its boozy debut at the St. Paul location later this year.
Ingredients
- 2 oz cognac Pierre Ferrand
- .5 oz Matilde Poire
- 1 oz Lemon juice
- .5 oz Five spice syrup (1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, 1 T. Five Spice --> bring to a boil, simmer for 10 min, and strain)
- 2 eye drops of Bittercube Bolivar
- 2 sage leaves
Directions
- Slap a sage leaf to bring out flavor
- Combine all ingredients
- Shake with ice
- Strain
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