2021 Advent Calendar
If you follow me on social media, you might remember when I did the wine advent calendar I got from Costco last year. This year Josh wanted to do one with me, but not with wine. I searched high and low on Google, but could not find a good spirit calendar, so I made one.
Every day for the next 24 days, I’ll be posting my daily cocktails here complete with a photo and the recipe. Make sure to bookmark this link to come back for all the details.
Day 12 - Tom Collins
Recipe adapted from A Couple Cooks.
Ingredients
2 ounces dry gin
3/4 to 1 ounce simple syrup
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) lemon juice
½ cup soda water
Ice
For the garnish: maraschino cherry, lemon wheel
Directions
Add the gin, syrup and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker with 4 ice cubes. Shake well until chilled.
Strain the liquid into an ice filled glass, and top off the glass with soda water. Garnish with a lemon wheel and cocktail cherry.
Day 11 - Daiquiri
Recipe adapted from Thrillist.
Ingredients
2 ounces rum
½ ounce simple syrup
1 ounce fresh lime juice
Directions
Shake all ingredients over ice and strain into a coup glass, serve straight up.
Day 10 - Amaretto Sour
Recipe from A Couple Cooks.
Ingredients
1 ½ ounces (3 tablespoons) amaretto
½ ounce (1 tablespoon) bourbon whiskey
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) lemon juice
1 teaspoon simple syrup or maple syrup
1 egg white (optional)*
2 dashes Angostura bitters
For the garnish: Cocktail cherry or Luxardo cherry, lemon slice
Directions
Add the amaretto, bourbon, lemon juice, syrup, egg white, and bitters to a cocktail shaker without ice. Shake for 15 seconds.
Add the ice to the cocktail shaker. Shake again for 30 seconds.
Strain the drink into a glass; the foam will collect at the top. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
Day 9 - Mamie Taylor Cocktail
Recipe from The Spruce Eats
Ingredients
2 ounces blended Scotch whisky
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice
4 to 6 ounces ginger ale, or ginger beer, to taste
Lime wedge, for garnish
Directions
In a highball glass filled with ice, add in whisky and lime juice.
Top with ginger beer.
Garnish with a lime wedge.
Day 8 - Skatter Brain Shot
Recipe adapted from Homebody Eats.
Ingredients
1 part Skatter Brain Dark Chocolate Banana Whiskey
1 part Rumchata
Directions
In a shaker filled with ice, shake up whiskey and Rumchata.
Pour into shot glass.
Day 7 - Peppermint Moscow Mule
Recipe adapted from Kimspired DIY
Ingredients
6 oz ginger beer
6 oz cup Cran-Pomegranate juice
4 ounces peppermint vodka
1/2 lime squeezed
fresh cranberries
fresh mint
crushed peppermints
ice
Directions
Fill copper mule mug with ice and handful of fresh mint.
In a cocktail shaker, add cranberry juice, vodka, and lime juice. Shake vigorously.
Pour cocktail mixture over ice and top with ginger beer. Garnish fresh mint, cranberries, and crushed peppermints.
Day 6 - Rhett Butler Cocktail
Recipe adapted from That Cocktail.
Ingredients
2 oz Southern Comfort
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz lime juice
Slice of lime for garnish
Directions
In a cocktail shaker combine ice, Southern Comfort, Cointreau, lemon juice and lime juice. Shake until well combined. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with lime slice.
Day 5 - Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Recipe adapted from RumChata.
Ingredients
1 part RumChata (about 1.5 oz)
1 part cinnamon whiskey (we used Cinnamon Candy Apple Whiskey by Southern Tier)
Directions
Combine ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake for about 20 seconds.
Add to a glass rimmed with cinnamon and sugar.
Garnish with cinnamon stick.
Day 4 - Rum & Coke
Ingredients
2 oz Bacardi Gold Rum
4-6 oz Coca-Cola
Ice
Lime wedge for garnish
Directions
Add ice to glass.
Add rum and top with coke.
Garnish with a lime wedge.
Day 3 - Peanut Butter Whisky Old Fashioned
Recipe from A Couple Cooks
Ingredients
2 ounces Peanut Butter Whisky
4 strong dashes Angostura bitters
For the garnish: orange wedge and cocktail cherry
Large ice cube, for serving
Cocktail cherry for garnish
Directions
Add the Skrewball whiskey and angostura bitters to a glass and swirl to combine.
Add a large clear ice cube. If desired, add a splash of soda water to taste.
Garnish with an orange wedge and cocktail cherry.
Day 2 - 99 Pineapple Bay Breeze
Recipe from The Spruce Eats
Ingredients
2 ounces 99 Pineapples
3 ounces pineapple juice
3 ounces cranberry juice
Lime wedge, for garnish
Directions
Gather ingredients
In a highball glass filled with ice, pour in 99 pineapples
Add in pineapple and cranberry juices
Garnish with lime wedge
Day 1 - Mezcal Sour
Recipe from Food Network
Ingredients
1 lime
1 orange
1 1/2 ounces fresh lime juice
1 1/2 ounces young mezcal, such as Santa Pedrera
1/2 ounce light agave syrup
Ice
Angostura bitters, for garnish
Lime twist, for serving
Directions
Remove one wide strip of peel with a vegetable peeler from both the lime and orange.
Combine the lime peel, orange peel, lime juice, mezcal and agave in a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice, cover and shake vigorously until the outside is very cold, about 20 seconds. Strain the cocktail through a Hawthorne strainer or a slotted spoon into a coupe glass. Garnish with a few drops of Angostura bitters. Top with a lime twist.
