Easy Christmas Cocktails for Festive Drinks Party Inspiration
Are you hosting a Christmas party? Do you need some ideas for what to serve your guests?
Well, we’ve got a host of delicious and simple cocktails ready to make that will suit every kind of festive gathering.
Make this Christmas season more magical with whisky cocktails, classic Cognac serves, tasty twists on the G&T, and more.
Easy Christmas Cocktails for Festive Drinks Party Inspiration
The Seasonal Sidecar recipe takes no time but delivers a huge amount of flavour
Courvoisier x Grand Marnier Seasonal Sidecar
First up is one of the great yet underrated cocktails, The Sidecar. This is a sweet, rich, orangey, festively-spiced drink that benefits from a smooth Cognac base and the beautiful taste of Grand Marnier. The perfect way to introduce somebody to Cognac.
Ingredients:
30ml Courvoisier VSOP
20ml Grand Marnier*
20ml fresh lemon juice
15ml winter spiced syrup
Lemon twist to garnish
Method:
Add all ingredients to the shaker, hard shake, and double strain into your coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
The Fettercairn 1824 proves that Champagne + whisky = good.
The Fettercairn 1824
The Fettercairn 1824 is a fine example of how good whisky and Champagne are together (or a suitable sparkling wine alternative). Plus, Christmas is the time for Champagne. Why not take things up a notch? This cocktail has notes of tropical fruit, coffee, chocolate, citrus, and floral undertones and has the bonus of being a fine way to celebrate Fettercairn on its 200th anniversary. Here’s to 200 more.
Ingredients:
37.5ml Fettercairn 16 Year Old
20ml Kumquat liqueur
15ml fresh lemon juice
10ml Fettercairn honey syrup
4 dashes Banana Bitters
2 dashes Coffee Bitters
Sparkling wine to top
Method:
Shake and strain all the ingredients other than the sparkling wine. Double strain and top with the sparkling wine.
The honey syrup was made with organic honey, pure cane sugar, water, natural flavours, lemon juice concentrate, and natural honey flavours. But you can just make a simple honey syrup or even have a play around with your own recipe.
TWO Bruichladdich cocktails you can make with most of the same ingredients**.
Bruichladdich Gingerbread Toddy
This season calls for winter warmers and they don’t get better than a good Hot Toddy. Bruichladdich takes things up a notch by bringing gingerbread into the fold to add a touch of Christmas magic to the cocktail.
Ingredients:
50ml Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie – Scottish Barley Whisky
15ml gingerbread syrup
Lemon cut into slices
Fresh ginger peeled and thinly cut
1 cinnamon stick
Hot water
Method:
Pour 50ml of Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie and 15ml of gingerbread syrup into a mug. Garnish with lemon slices, fresh ginger slices, and a cinnamon stick. Stir and top with hot water.
Bruichladdich Gingerbread Penicillin
Or, if you don’t want a hot serve, then Bruichladdich also provides this delightful Gingerbread Penicillin. This is the perfect tonic for any flat or dull event. The mini gingerbread man garnish will be adored by your guests and yourself alike.
Ingredients:
50ml Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie – Scottish Barley Whisky
25ml fresh lemon juice
10ml gingerbread syrup
10ml honey
Mini gingerbread man to garnish
Method:
Pour 50ml of Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie, 25ml lemon juice, and 10ml gingerbread syrup into a mixing glass with cubed ice. Add 10ml of honey, stir, and garnish with a mini gingerbread man.
The Botanist Christmas & Tonic recipe is easy, peasy, pomegranate squeezy
The Botanist Christmas & Tonic
Christmas & Tonic has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? The original G&T is a very spring/summer serve but The Botanist Islay Dry Gin takes a festive turn into delightful territory with winter spiced syrup and red fruit juices. Simple but very effective. Handily we have an incredible deal on Bruichladdich and The Botanist this week so you can do the lot for less!
Ingredients:
50ml The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
50ml pomegranate juice
50ml cranberry juice
15ml winter spiced syrup
100ml quality tonic water
Red currants to garnish
Method:
Pour The Botanist Islay Dry Gin, pomegranate juice, cranberry juice and winter spice syrup into an ice-filled highball glass. Top with tonic and garnish with red currants.
If the festive season makes you want to be somewhere like here, this is your drink
Passion Fruit Margarita
If you live in a hot country where BBQ is the name of the game on Christmas or you’re the kind of person who books a trip somewhere warm during the darkest, coldest days then don’t fear, we haven’t left you out. There is absolutely nothing festive about this Passion Fruit Margarita. And that’s very much the point. Plus it’s bloody delicious and easy to make.
Ingredients:
60ml Olmeca Altos Plata
30ml Alma Finca Orange Liqueur
30ml fresh lime juice
22ml passion fruit juice
15 ml agave syrup
Slice of lime and passion fruit seeds for garnish (optional).
Method:
Use a lime and salt to rim your glass then mix your passion fruit juice, Tequila, orange liqueur, agave syrup, and fresh lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Shake the ingredients vigorously for 15-20 seconds, then strain the mixture into said glass with ice. Garnish with lime slice and passion fruit seeds.
More Christmas Cocktails to enjoy
We hope you enjoyed our guide to Easy Christmas Cocktails for Festive Drinks Party Inspiration. You can find more Christmas cocktail inspiration on our blog, from this sensational selection to what to make with Baileys, as well as a cracking Christmas Negroni recipe and a guide on how to upgrade your Old Fashioned cocktail this Christmas.
*Now with two free flutes & jigger!
**Image credit: Jordan Sammels (@theworldofwhiskeyuk)
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