Expand your exploration of classic cocktails with spirits created on the Eastern Shore
Written by Meredith Lindemon
There are a surprising number of distilleries around the Eastern Shore where you can get in the spirit of things, so to speak, with a Scotchy-tasting cocktail. While these are more in the whiskey vein of things, with a definite American appeal,
Seacrets Spiced Apple Cider
The Seacrets In The Spice!
This cocktail is great for serving at large parties! Try pairing with rum cake, using Seacrets Spiced Rum, too!
INGREDIENTS:
1 gallon of your favorite apple cider
1 Tbsp allspice, whole
1 tsp allspice, ground
1 Tbsp nutmeg
4 cinnamon sticks
1 orange, sliced in half
INSTRUCTIONS:
Add ingredients to apple cider.
Cherry Chocolate Passiontini
Toast to Romance with this Tasty Treat!
Ingredients:
1 oz cherry liqueur
1½ oz Malibu Coconut rum
½ oz chocolate vodka
½ oz club soda or sparkling water
Instructions:
Chill all ingredients beforehand.
Pour the cherry liqueur into a martini glass.
Add the Malibu Coconut rum, followed by the chocolate vodka, and finally, the sparkling water.
Seasonal Old Fashioned
Rock The Red
A SEASONAL TWIST ON A CLASSIC COCKTAIL
RECIPE BY SHANE VANSCIVER | DRY 85
Legend says that one of the very first Old Fashioned recipes comes from the May 13, 1806 issue of The Balance and Columbian Repository in Hudson, New York. The “cock-tail,” also a newly minted term, was described as: “a potent concoction of spirits,