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Hunger Games Party Cocktail Ideas

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The first installation of the Hunger Games movie based off of the best-selling trilogy book series hits theaters this Friday, March 23. Get yourself and your friends in the spirit with these Hunger Games themed cocktails. Katniss and her crew would surely approve.

Nightlock’s Nemesis

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Camarena Silver Tequila
  • 1 oz Lemon Juice
  • 1/2 oz Agave Nectar
  • 2 Cucumber Wheels
  • 2 Blackberries
  • 2 oz Ginger Beer

Directions:

Muddle cucumber and blackberries in a mixing glass. Add tequila, lemon juice, agave nectar and ice. Shake and strain into a tall glass with ice. Top with ginger beer and stir. Garnish with cucumber wheel.

Remembering Rue

Ingredients:

  • 3 oz Fever-Tree Ginger Beer
  • 1 oz Vodka
  • 1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
  • Edible Flower for Garnish

Directions:

Fill a highball glass with ice. Add vodka and fresh lime juice. Top off with Fever-Tree Ginger Beer. Garnish with lime wedges in the glass and an edible flower in remembrance of Rue, just as Katniss remembered the fallen Tribute with flowers.

Haymitch’s Hooch

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Camarena Silver Tequila
  • 1/2 oz Blanc Vermouth
  • 1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth
  • 1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 1/2 oz Italian Amaro
  • 3 oz Ginger Ale
  • Mint for Garnish

Directions:

Combine tequila, blanc vermouth, sweet vermouth, lemon juice and Italian Amaro in a highball glass. Mix well. Fill glass to brim with ice. Top with ginger ale and stir gently with a bar spoon. Garnish with mint.

Rooted in Survival

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Camarena Silver Tequila
  • 1 oz Carrot Juice
  • 1/2 oz Lemon Juice
  • 1/2 oz Agave Nectar
  • Heavy dash Peychaud’s Bitters
  • Splash of Blood Orange Soda

Directions:

Add all ingredients in a tall Collins glass. Stir with a bar spoon and add ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Girl on Fire

Ingredients:

  • 1 oz Camarena Reposado Tequila
  • 1/2 oz Spiced Orange Syrup*
  • 1/2 Lime Juice
  • 2 dashes Classic Bitters
  • 2 oz Brut Champagne

Directions:

Combine tequila, syrup, lime juice and bitters in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend and chill. Strain into chilled champagne flute. Garnish with orange twist.

*Spiced Orange Syrup

Ingredients:

  • Zest of 1 Orange
  • 10 to 12 Whole Cloves
  • 1 heaping tablespoon Whole Allspice
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1 1/2 cup Cane Sugar

Directions:

Place all ingredients in saucepan over medium heat. Heat until sugar is completely dissolved (approximately 5 minutes). Strain. Discard zest and spices. Refrigerate syrup.

Katniss Everdeen’s Ever After

Ingredients:

  • 4 oz Jalapeño-Infused Camarena Silver Tequila*
  • 3 oz Fresh-Squeezed Blood Orange Juice
  • 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
  • 2 oz Orange Liqueur

Directions:

In a cocktail shaker, combine jalapeño-infused Camarena Silver Tequila, blood orange juice, lime juice and Cointreau. Fill with ice, shake and strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a blood orange peel.

*Jalapeño-Infused Camarena Silver Tequila

To make jalapeño infusion, slice up a fresh jalapeño pepper and allow it to steep in 1 cup of Camarena Silver Tequila for 2 hours. Taste to check the heat level, and continue to steep if a stronger infusion is desired. Once infusing process is complete, remove the slices by pouring the mixture through a mess strainer.

These cocktail recipes are all courtesy of Camarena Silver Tequila.

As always please drink responsibly, and never drink and drive!

Yummy St. Patrick’s Day Cocktail Recipes

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Are you planning a little St. Patrick’s Day get together, or you’d just like to celebrate with a couple drinks with friends? Here are a few St. Patrick’s Day Cocktail recipes to help your party planning along. You can make one or make them all and have a little tasting party!

These green and not so green cocktails are all courtesy of Camarena Tequila and Blue Ice Vodka.

Camarena Shamrock Shaker
Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz Familia Camarena Reposado Tequila
  • 1/2 oz Sour Apple Liqueur
  • 1/4 oz Agave Nectar
  • 2 oz Lime Juice

Directions:

Combine liquids in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend and chill. Strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with a fan of thinly sliced green apples.

Emerald Crush

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Blue Ice Organic Wheat Vodka
  • 1/2 organic kiwi, peeled
  • 1/2 organic lime, cut into quarters
  • 1 teaspoon organic sugar

Directions:

Muddle fruit and sugar in a mixing glass until well crushed and juicy. Add ice and vodka and shake vigorously. Pour all contents over ice into a tall tumbler and drink with straws.

Señor Patrick’s Salud

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 oz Camarena Reposado Tequila
  • 1/2 oz Irish Whiskey
  • 1 oz Apple Juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon Honey
  • 1 oz Ginger Beer
  • Quarter Lime Wedge – Squeezed

Directions:

Combine liquids except ginger beer in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to blend. Strain into rocks glass over fresh ice. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with lime wedge. (Lower Calorie Cocktail: Approximately 106.17 calories based upon 1 oz = 1 ounce)

Green With Envy

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz Blue Ice Vodka
  • 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
  • 2 1/2 oz Sweet & Sour
  • 2 oz Orange Juice

Directions:

Blend ingredients together with crushed ice until slushy. Serve in a hurricane style glass. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry arranged on a pick.

Mexican Shamrock Shooter

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 oz Camarena Silver Tequila
  • 1/3 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
  • 1/3 oz Irish Cream

Directions:

Layer liquids by placing Butterscotch Schnapps in bottom of glass. Slowly pour Irish Cream over back of bar spoon on top of schnapps. Finish with layer of Camarena Silver Tequila poured over back of bar spoon on top of Irish Cream.

As always please remind your guests and yourself to drink responsibly!

Delicious Christmas Cocktail Ideas

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I’ve been looking around the last few days and I’ve found some yummy looking Christmas cocktail ideas on Pinterest! I always like to make one or two cocktails when I entertain and make them my signature drink for the event. If it’s a Christmas or holiday party you’re throwing, then it’s extra fun to give your signature drink a Christmas theme. All of these fabulous recipes do just that! Enjoy!

Just click on the links below the photo to get to the recipes and details about the cocktails!

Christmas Cranberry Mojitos from We Are Not Martha

 

The Grinch From It Thing

Source: itthing.com via Linette on Pinterest

 

White Chocolate Marshmallow Peppermint Martini from Betty Crocker

 

Red Glitter Godiva Mudsling Martini from My Thirty Spot~ Love the festive colors!

 

Chocolate ‘Blitzen’ Martini by BHG

Source: bhg.com via Linette on Pinterest

 

Gingerbread Martini by My Recipes

 

I’m all over the chocolate cocktails! I might have to try the mojitos too!

Please remember to drink responsibly, and never let your guests drink and drive!

Valentine’s Day Cocktails From G’Vine Gin

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Today I have some yummy Valentine’s Day cocktail recipes to share with you courtesy of G’Vine Gin. Valentine’s Day is the most romantic day of the year, so it calls for a romantic cocktail to share with your sweetie.

These romance theme cocktails should help set the mood.

Love Potion

  • 1 1/2 oz G’vine Floraison gin
  • 1/2 oz sloe gin
  • 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
  • 1 egg white
  • 1/2 oz Monin raspberry syrup
  • 1/2 oz pomegranate juice
  • 3 dashes rhubarb bitters
  • Garnish: blood orange slice

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a blood orange slice.

Pernod Absinthe: This spirit traces its roots back to the period of French Impressionism and was a favorite among romantic figures such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Hemingway. The Maiden’s Blush is a lovely and appropriate classic for the occasion.

The Maiden’s Blush

The Maiden’s Blush appeared in Bariana, the first French cocktail manual by Louis Fouquet, in 1896. This variation uses fresh raspberries instead of grenadine.

  • 1 part PERNOD® Aux Plantes D’Absinthe Supérieure
  • 1 part PLYMOUTH ® Gin
  • ⅓ part simple syrup
  • ⅓ part fresh lemon juice
  • ⅓ part water
  • 4 raspberries
  • Lemon wheel

Muddle raspberries in a mixing glass. Add remaining ingredients, and shake over ice. Strain into a small chilled rocks glass, and garnish with a lemon wheel.

Esprit de June: A delicate liqueur crafted from the vine flowers from the vineyards of Cognac, June’s feminine and floral flavor profile make it an ideal romantic cocktail ingredient for a Valentine’s cocktail – simply splash it in with Champagne and its makes for a very special Champagne cocktail!

ZU Vodka: Now available in the US, this bison grass flavored spirit was the spirit of choice for Polish royalty as they spent time hunting in the enchanted Bialowieza Forest. The classic way to drink ZU is simple – mixed half and half with apple juice. This drink is commonly called a “Polish Kiss”, and the name makes it perfect for the holiday.

Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipes

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When you’re planning your Thanksgiving menu, don’t forget to include a dinner cocktail or two. Today I have a couple more yummy Thanksgiving cocktail recipes, courtesy of Blue Ice Vodka, the flavors combinations in these cocktails are all very fall, and holiday.

Maybe one of these can work as the signature cocktail at your Thanksgiving dinner bash.

This can be a great way to help out the party hostess, you can offer to pitch in with the cocktails for your contribution to the party. Just bring all the ingredients to mix up these Thanksgiving cocktails at your party destination.

These recipes can be great conversation starters, and your friends will be impressed that you came up with recipes so perfect for the fall season.

Pumpkin Pie Martini

  • 4 parts Blue Ice Vodka
  • 1 part DaVinci Pumpkin Pie Syrup
  • Cinnamon Sugar

Add Blue Ice and Pumpkin Pie Syrup to a cocktail shaker, shake well and strain. Garnish with an orange slice and pour into a cocktail glass rimmed with cinnamon sugar

Chilled Pumpkin Latte

  • 1 ounce Blue Ice Vodka
  • ¾ ounce coffee liqueur
  • ¾ ounce DaVinci Pumpkin Pie Syrup

Build over cubed ice in a 12- to 14-ounce Collins-style glass

All-American Chilled Apple Pie

  • 1 1/4 oz Blue Ice Vodka
  • 3/4 oz Tuaca Liqueur
  • 1/2 oz Sweet & Sour
  • Fill with Chilled Apple Cider

Build in order over ice in a 12 oz glass, garnish with a lemon slice, a long cinnamon stick, and a straw.

Don’t forget to remind your guests to always drink responsibly!

More fall inspired cocktail recipes for your Thanksgiving party:

Pumpkin Pie-tini

Caramel Apple Pie Cocktail

Images and recipes courtesy of  Blue Ice Vodka

Cinco De Mayo~ Summer Tequila Cocktail Recipes With a Twist

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Today I have some fabulous Cinco De Mayo cocktail recipes to share with you. These recipes would also be perfect vor any summer party. I can see myself beside the pool, or lounging in the beach chair with one of these in my hand.

These cocktail recipes would also be fabulous for a backyard barbecue, with a tropical island theme. Just looking at them makes me think of sandy beaches!

I might just have to make one of these tequila cocktails this weekend!

The recipes are courtesy of Oro Azul Tequila.

Island Sunset

  • 1 ½ oz Oro Azul Blanco Tequila
  • ½ oz Cointreau®
  • 2 oz pomegranate juice
  • 1 oz fresh lime juice
  • ½ oz simple syrup

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add above ingredients shake well and pour into a Collins glass filled with ice.

La Bonita

  • 1 ½ oz Oro Azul Reposado Tequila
  • ½ oz Cointreau®
  • 2 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 oz pear juice
  • 1 oz simple syrup

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add above ingredients shake well and pour into a Collins glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

El Matador

  • 1 ½ oz Oro Azul Blanco Tequila
  • 3 oz pineapple juice
  • Juice of ½ lime

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add above ingredients shake well and strain into a champagne flute.

Pomegranate Perfection

  • 1 ½ oz Oro Azul Añejo Tequila
  • ½ oz apple brandy
  • 2 oz pomegranate Juice
  • 2 oz fresh squeezed lemon Juice
  • Splash of cinnamon

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add above ingredients shake well and strain into an ice filled 12 oz glass. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Mangorita

  • 2 oz Oro Azul Reposado Tequila
  • ½ oz Triple Sec®
  • 2 oz mango juice

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add above ingredients shake well and strain into a martini glass.

Oro Azul is produced by the Lopez Garibay family, which has been in the tequila business for over 100 years. Established in 1921, their present ranch is located in the heart of the tequila region, Los Altos, where only the finest blue agave is found.

After five generations, the family continues to follow a traditional style, handmade tequila production process that focuses on 100 percent estate grown blue agave and attention to preserving the original cultivation and distillation techniques used over a century ago.

Always remind your guests to drink responsibly, and never drink and drive!