Contigo Cocktail Recipes (A - L)

5 o'clock Hero

1.5 oz Gin

.5 oz Green Chartreuse

.75 oz lemon juice

1 bs blueberry jam

Shake and strain over ice into rocks glass

Garnish lemon wheel

After the Storm

1.5 oz Zaya Rum

.5 oz lime juice

.5 oz Paula’s Texas Orange

1 BS Allspice Dram

Build these ingredients in collins glass, fill glass with ice, fill to about ½ inch from top with ginger beer, stir to incorporate ingredients, top with .5 oz Lemonhart 151

Garnish with flamed, clove-spiked orange peel

Americano

1oz Campari

1oz Sweet Vermouth

Topped with mineral water

Build in Highball glass

Garnish with orange slice

Aperol Spritz

1.5 oz Aperol

Topped with prosecco

Build in Snifter

Garnish with orange slice

Apperitif Spritz

1 oz Cochi Americano

1 oz. Cochi Torino

Build in a tulip glass with ice

Top with soda and garnish with two lemon wheels

Aviation

2oz Plymouth Gin

.5 oz Maraschino Liqueur

.75 oz Lemon juice

.25 oz Crème de Violette

Shake, 2x strain, Served up in cocktail glass

No garnish

Bee Keeper 

1.5 oz Bourbon

.75 oz lemon juice

.75 oz honey syrup

2 dash Angostura Bitters

Combine ingredients in shaker with 1 overflowing ice scoop, hard shake, pour all contents from shaker into collins glass

Garnish with 2 skewered cherries

Bee’s Knees

1.5 oz Gin

.75 oz Honey Syrup

.75 oz Lemon juice

Shake, 2x strain, Served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with lemon twist

Bitter Myle

1.5oz Dry Gin

.75oz Campari

.75oz Grapefruit juice

.5 oz Velvet Falernum

Light shake, strain over ice in collins glass

Garnish with grapefruit slice

Blood & Sand

1 oz Blended Scotch

1 oz Orange juice

.75 oz Sweet Vermouth

.75 oz Cherry Heering

Shake, 2x strain, Served up in cocktail glass

No garnish

Bloody Mary

1.5 oz Spirit

Top with House Bloody Mix

Build in Collins, roll between glass and tin

Garnish with house pickles and lemon wheel

Boulevardier

1.5 oz Bourbon

¾ oz Campari

¾ oz Sweet Vermouth

Stir in mixing glass, serve on large cube

Garnish with orange peel

Branca-Menta Hot Chocolate

Warm a mug with hot water. Discard the water. Build in mug

1.5 oz Branca-Menta

5 oz Mexican hot chocolate

Top with a couple of barspoons whipped cream. Garnish with 1 mint leaf

Brandy Alexander

1oz Brandy/Cognac

1oz Crème de Cacao

1oz Heavy Cream

Shake, 2x strain, Served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with grated nutmeg

Caipirinha

2 oz Cachaca

.5 oz simple syrup

.5 of one lime cut into quarters

Muddle lime and simple together, add cachaca & ice, shake. Pour entire contents into highball. No garnish

Champagne Cocktail

1 sugar cube

2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Top with prosecco

Serve in flute

Garnish with lemon twist

Contigo Chelada

.5 oz vida mezcal

.5 oz lemon juice

2 dashes Tabasco

Topped with pacific  in a dressed iced pint glass.

The Closer

.75 oz Averna Amaro

.25 oz Angostura

1  tbs Mezcal

Stir, served up in snifter, orange zest & discard

Contigo Ranch

1 oz Tequila

1 oz Orange juice

.5 oz Simple syrup

.5 oz Lime juice

.25 oz Mezcal

Build in Collins glass, add ice, top with mineral water, stir/swizzle

Garnish with orange slice

Corpse Reviver #2

.75 oz Dry Gin

.75 oz Cocchi Americano

.75 oz Combier

.75 oz Lemon juice

Shake, 2x strain, Absinthe Rinse

Served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with orange twist

Cosmopolitan

1.5 oz vodka(citrus vodka, if available)

.75 oz Combier

.5 oz Lime juice

.25 oz Cranberry juice

Hard shake, 2x strain into chilled cocktail glass

Garnish with lime wheel

Daiquiri

2 oz Atlantico Platino Rum

1oz Lime juice

.75 oz Simple Syrup

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with Lime wheel

Dark n’ Stormy

1.5 oz Gosling’s Rum

.5 oz Lime juice

Ginger Beer

Build ginger & lime in Collins, top w/ Gosling’s

Garnish with lime wheel

Death in the Gulfstream
2 oz Bol's Genever
1 oz Lime juice
.5 oz simple syrup
3 dashes Angostura bitters
shake all except bitters strain over ice.
Top with bitters.  Garnish with mint sprig and lemon zest.

Eavesdropper

2oz Rittenhouse Rye

.5 oz Green Chartreuse

.5 oz Honey Syrup

.5 oz Lemon Juice

1 thin slice fresh jalapeno

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with skewered jalapeno slice

El Diablo

1.5 oz Blanco Tequila

.5 oz Crème de Cassis

.75 oz Lime juice

Build in Collins, top with ginger beer

Garnish with lime wheel

El Jefe

1.5 oz Bourbon

.5 oz Laphroaig

.25 oz Luxardo maraschino

.25 oz Lemon juice

1 dash Jerry Thomas Decanter bitters

Build in rocks glass, top with ginger beer

Garnish with 1 skewered cherry

El Pepino

1.5 oz Blanco Tequila

1.5 oz Cucumber Juice

.5 oz Mint simple syrup

.75 oz Lime juice

Build in Collins glass, add ice, stir

Garnish with slice of cucumber and mint sprig

Espadín Tea

Fill your mug and half-fill a pint glass with hot water. Place a short metal tin in the pint glass. In the metal tin, add

1.25 oz Mezcal

.75 oz Licor 43

.5 oz lemon juice

Stir to blend ingredients, dump hot water from mug, add contents from tin, and top with 4 oz strong-brewed black tea. Garnish with lemon wheel on mug

Fall Harvest

1.5 oz Laird’s 100° Apple Brandy

.75 oz Domaine de Canton

.5 oz Cynar

.5 oz Lemon juice

2 dash Baked Apple bitters

Combine ingredients in shaker, hard shake, 2x strain into chilled snifter

Garnish with thin slice apple

Final Word

.75 oz Rye Whiskey

.75 oz Green Chartreuse

.75 oz Maraschino liqueur

.75 oz Lime juice

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

No garnish

Fredericksburg Smash

2 oz Pisco

.75 oz Lemon juice

.5 oz Simple syrup

3 thin slices peach

3 sprigs Mint Marigold

Combine all ingredients in shaker. Hard shake, 2x strain over crushed ice in rocks glass

Garnish with peach fan, & 1 sprig mint marigold

French 75

1oz Dry Gin

.5 oz lemon juice

.5 oz simple syrup

Shake, 2x strain into chilled flute, top with prosecco. Garnish with lemon twist

French 76

1oz Vodka

.5 oz lemon juice

.5 oz simple syrup

Shake, 2x strain into chilled flute, top with prosecco. Garnish with lemon twist

French 77

1 oz St. Germaine

1oz Lemon juice

Shake, 2x strain into chilled flute, top with prosecco. Garnish with lemon twist

  

Gimlet

1.5 oz Dry Gin

.75 oz Lime juice

.75 oz Simple Syrup

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with lime wheel

Heming...guey

1.5 oz Light rum

.5 oz Wahaka espadin

.75 oz grapefruit juice

.5 oz lime juice

.25 oz Luxardo maraschino

Light shake, strain over ice in collins glass

Garnish with wide grapefruit twist wrapped around straw

Hemingway

2oz Light Rum

.5 oz Lime juice

.5 oz Grapefruit juice

.25 oz Maraschino Liqueur

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with cherry/lime wedge skewer

Hot Toddy

Fill your mug and half-fill a pint glass with hot water. Place a short metal tin in the pint glass. In the metal tin, add

1.5 oz Spirit of guest’s choice

.75 oz honey syrup

.75 oz lemon juice

1 BS Allspice Dram

Stir to blend ingredients, dump hot water from mug, add contents from tin, and top with 4 oz hot water. Garnish with mint sprig & lemon wheel

Irish Coffee

​Warm a mug with hot water. Discard the water. Build in mug

​1.5 oz Power’s Irish whiskey

​5 oz coffee

​Top with a couple of barspoons whipped cream. Garnish with grated cinnamon

Jack Rose

1.5 oz Bonded Apple Brandy

.75 lemon juice

.5 oz Grenadine

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

Garnish with lemon wheel

Kir Royale

.25 oz Crème de Cassis

Top with Prosecco

Serve in flute

No garnish

La Mariquita

2 oz Sweet tea vodka

1 oz St. Germain

.75 oz Lemon juice

Build in collins glass, top with mineral water

Garnish with lemon wheel

La Louisiane
2 oz. Rye
.75oz. Sweet Vermouth
.5oz. Benedictine
3 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Herbsaint rinse
Stir except Herbsaint strain into rinsed coupe.
Garnish with cherry

Last Word

.75 oz Dry Gin

.75 oz Green Chartreuse

.75 oz Maraschino Liqueur

.75 oz Lime juice

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

No garnish(lime wheel optional)

Lion’s Tail

2oz Bourbon

.25 oz Allspice Dram

.5 oz Lime juice

.25 oz Simple Syrup

1 dash Angostura

Shake, 2x strain, served up in cocktail glass

No garnish

Long boat to China

Fill your mug and half-fill a pint glass with hot water. Place a short metal tin in the pint glass. In the metal tin, add

1 ½ oz Mezcal

¾ oz Yellow Chartruese

½ oz Cynar

3 dashes Chinese bitters

1 dash Angostura

Stir to blend ingredients, dump hot water from mug, add contents from tin, and top with 4 oz hot water.

Garnish with clove studded orange peel and flame over mug