Drink Recipes

Each season, we provide mouthwatering cocktail recipes to share with our customers. The New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlets around the state offer the spirits you need to mix up these tasty cocktails at home. Check back seasonally for new drink ideas!

Espresso Martini

Combine liqueurs and espresso in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Serve in a martini glass with a cocoa powder rim and garnish with a few espresso beans.

Junior's Cran-Apple Punch

Muddle cranberries and sugar in a rocks glass. Fill with ice and add all other ingredients. Stir gently.

Moonshine Martini

Shake with ice and serve in a martini glass. Garnish with an olive or lemon peel.

Chocolate Cherry Moon

Shake all ingredients with ice vigorously for 15-20 seconds. Strain into a glass and garnish with dark chocolate shavings.

Blueberry Soda

Pour Midnight Moon Blueberry over ice in a highball glass and fill with cream soda.

Pearl Pom Apple Martini

In a cinnamon sugar-rimmed martini glass add vodka and apple cider. Top with sparkling wine.

Tipsy Tower

Shake and serve in a martini glass. Garnish with a cherry.

Purple Haze

In an ice-filled glass layer ingredients. Stir lightly. Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

Lemon Thyme Martini

(The Green Monkey)

3 ounces Svedka citrus Vodka
1 ½ ounce simple syrup, mixed with thyme and black pepper to taste
½ ounce of freshed squeezed lemon juice
½ ounce of sour mix

Combine with ice in a shaker, shake and pour into a martini glass. Garnished with a lemon wedge.

Champagne Punch

Ingredients
    1 3/4 cups champagne
    3 tablespoons Cointreau
    2 tablespoons brandy
    3 tablespoons grenadine
    Raspberries, apples, or other seasonal fruit

Directions
Fill a small ice bucket halfway with ice. Pour grenadine, Cointreau, brandy, and champagne over ice. Stir gently, and ladle punch into 2 wide-mouthed stemmed glasses. Garnish punch with raspberries, apples, or any other fruit in season.

Lemon-Mint Spritzer

Ingredients
    1 cup chilled champagne
    1/4 cup limoncello
    2 tablespoons sugar
    1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
    Lemon peel strips from 1 lemon
    4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice plus 1 lemon wedge
   
Directions
Place mint, limoncello, 2 tablespoons sugar, and lemon strips in blender; blend until mint is finely chopped (lemon peel will be coarsely chopped), 10 seconds. Strain into small cup; discard solids. Run lemon wedge around rim of 2 champagne flutes. Dip rims into sugar. Divide limoncello mixture and lemon juice between flutes. Top with champagne.
 

Champagne Cosmo

Ingredients
    1 part citrus-flavored vodka
    1 part cranberry juice
    Top off with champagne

Directions
Pour vodka and cranberry juice into a champagne glass. Top off with champagne.

Moscat-ini

Ingredients
    1 oz. gin
    1 oz. moscato
    ½ oz. peach schnapps
    1 oz. lemon juice
     ½ oz. simple syrup

Directions
Combine in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake, strain, enjoy.