Impress Guest : Holiday Cocktails with Ginger Beer Recipes

The holidays are here! Whether you love seasonal flavors or need to brace yourself for family time, here are the season’s top sips – featuring fresh, unfiltered ginger beer to add some spice to the holidays.

Cranberry Ginger Fizz

¾ C sugar
¾ C water
1 C fresh cranberries
1 lemon, cut into wedges
½ orange, cut into slices
1.5 C dry gin, such as Tanqueray
1 C chilled Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer mini in Lemon/Lime
4 mint sprigs

Bring sugar & water to a boil in a medium saucepan, stir until water is dissolved. Remove from heat; pour off all but one cup of syrup, reserving any extra for another use. Heat the syrup to a boil and then reduce heat to medium. Add the cranberries and simmer for 2-3 min until they just begin to burst. Remove from heat and let cool in syrup. Place 2 T drained cranberries and 6 T cranberry syrup in a large pitcher; add the lemon wedges and orange slices. Using a muddler or wooden spoon, vigorously mash the fruit. Stir in gin and let steep for at least 5 minutes. Strain into a medium pitcher. Fill 4 glasses with crushed ice and ¼ cup Brooklyn Crafted. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and pour half the cranberry mixture into the shaker. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds; strain liquid into two glasses. Repeat. Mound additional ice on top of each glass and garnish with 3 candied cranberries and a mint sprig.

Ginger Whiskey Cider

2 oz. Hard Cider
1 oz. Whiskey
Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer Mini in Traditional, to fill
Crushed Ice

In a 12-16 oz. high ball glass, combine the hard cider and whiskey. Fill the glass with crushed ice and top with Brooklyn Crafted.

Stone Wall

One 1-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
1.5 t simple syrup
1.5 oz. aged rum
1.5 oz. hard apple cider
1.5 oz. Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer Mini in Traditional
1 lime wedge
1 slice apple
Ice

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the ginger and simple syrup. Add the rum and cider; fill the shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass and top with Brooklyn Crafted. Garnish with lime wedge and apple slice.