Feeling Blue? We Have the Holiday Drink For You
The hallmark of vacation at a resort is often the cocktail. Perhaps a Pina Colada or a Margarita. But for us, it’s always been a blue or green drink, such as a Blue Lagoon or Mojito. Here are some cocktails to make at home when you want to feel like you are in lazing-by-the-pool mode.
Crafted by renowned mixologist Aaron Melendrez, these stunning creations are not only delicious but also serve as eye-catching decor for festive celebrations. They are perfect for the Holidays, a staycation, or any time you want to feel away.
Nautical Negroni
- 3/4oz Bluecoat American Dry Gin
- 3/4oz Suze
- 3/4oz Bianco Vermouth
- 1/3oz Italicus Bergamot Liqueur
- 1/2oz Hpnotiq
- Glassware: Double Rocks
- Garnish: Long Grapefruit Zest, and Mandolin Cucumber Slice
Instructions: Add all ingredients to the mixing glass with ice. Stir until chilled, strain into a double rocks glass. Add a large ice cube, garnish.
Description: The classic white negroni cocktail reimagined as an ocean blue negroni, complex, slightly bitter, spirit forward, herbal, exotic.
Blue Baburu
- 1oz Hpnotiq
- .5oz Japanese Whiskey
- .5oz Lemon
- 4 Dashes Peach Bitters
- 3oz Brut Champagne
- Glassware: Champagne Flute
Instructions: Mix all ingredients in a shaker except champagne. Shake with 1 ice cube. Pour 3 oz of champagne into a glass. Pour the mixture cocktail mixer over top of the champagne. Garnish with a decorative lemon peel and half rim (approximately 1” deep) of super fine sugar
Description: The French 75 reimagined, refined light Japanese whiskey with peach and lush fruit take centerstage on your palette while clean crisp champagne provides structure and balance
Frosted Orchard
- 1.5oz Hpnotiq
- 1oz Deep Eddy Vodka
- .25oz Vanilla Syrup
- 1 Bar spoon Lemon Juice
- 3oz Sparkling Apple Cider
- 1 Sprig of Rosemary
- Garnish: Apple Slice, Rosemary Sprig, Cinnamon Sprinkle
- 1/4tsp Blue Spirulina
- Glassware: Double Rocks
Description: A unique apple cider cocktail. Tastes like holiday cheer with notes of rosemary, vanilla and apple.
Dragon’s Hpnosis
- 1.5oz Capurro Pisco
- .75oz Hpnotiq
- .5oz Dragon Fruit Syrup
- .5oz Fresh Pineapple Juice
- 1oz Key Lime
- 1 Egg White
- Glassware: Coupe
- Garnish: Bitters design on fresh foam, red dragon fruit slice
Instructions: Add all ingredients except egg white into a shaker tin. Carefully crack egg white into the opposite tin. Add 5-6 ice cubes and shake long and hard. Open the tin and fill it with ice. Short and hard. Strain frothy Cocktail into a coupe glass, shake out the last bit. Drip bitters to the top of the cocktail in circles. Run a toothpick through bitters to create a design on top of cocktail foam. Garnish with dragon fruit
Description: This is a unique twist on the pisco sour. Combining the flavor profiles of dragon fruit and mango, passion fruit, and citrus from Hpnotiq. This cocktail is balanced with key limes for a big lime flavor to provide balance Shaken with an egg white to achieve a beautiful silk texture that puts this cocktail in a league of its own.
