This smooth cocktail is designed to soothe stress and reflect on the possibility of a lovely day off. Serve it on the rocks, while you put up your feet and relax. Absolutely no shopping allowed. Black Friday 1 1/2 ounce bourbon 1 tablespoon Kahlua 1 tablespoon Southern Comfort 1 tablespoon heavy cream Combine all ingredients […]
A famous Friday cocktail seems a good fit for Throwback Thursday. This smooth cocktail is designed to take the sting out of whatever done stung you. Serve it on the rocks, while you count your victories and smooth away your losses. Black Friday (or Thursday) 1 1/2 ounce bourbon 1 tablespoon Kahlua 1 tablespoon Southern […]
Southern Comfort, its name tells it all. This American liqueur, made with whiskey flavored spirits, fruit extracts, and spice, was originally created by New Orleans bartender Martin Wilkes Heron in the 1870s. The makers now offer Southern Comfort in a range of enhanced flavors and pre-mixes. This recipe calls for the original. Comfort Sour 2 […]
We conclude this week’s focus on America’s own spirit with some bourbon for brunch. Depending on the desire for more sweetness in the drink, slightly increase the dosage of Southern Comfort. The mix of bourbon and bubbles goes well with meat heavy brunch menus, and serves 6 plus. Bourbles 1 bottle of sparkling wine, cava […]
While it seemed difficult enough finalizing this recipe, creating a name was harder. We’ve been playing around with shrubs and wanted to bring a citrus flavor into a bourbon cocktail. Use our shrub recipe, substituting 4 cups quartered clementine for the strawberries. CleMint-ine 2 ounces of bourbon 1/2 ounce Southern Comfort 3/4 ounce clementine shrub […]
This is a heads up for Rum Week, a collection of sugar-cane and molasses based spirits beginning Monday, July 7. We’ve brought together traditional and specially created cocktails to celebrate the oldest spirit in the New World. By the way, there are versions of Liquid Coma calling for so many Old World liqueurs the resulting […]
Pluots, apriums and plumcots are hybrid fruits combining the plum and apricot. We think the best are the early season variety with a red, fuzzy skin and a crimson, succulent interior. As these hybrids are an American innovation, an American spirit is an appropriate partner. This makes 2 cocktails. Plutocrat 2 plucots, peeled and pitted […]
If you think the Cosmopolitan was the first cocktail to use cranberry juice, take a sip of this and think again. When the movie version of Gone With the Wind was released in 1939, people everywhere rushed to ride the film’s wave of success. The makers of Southern Comfort introduced this tart tribute to Tara’s […]
This smooth cocktail is designed to take the sting out of what you have spent after the stand-in-line-early sales today that literally and figuratively ring in the holiday shopping season. Serve it on the rocks, while you count your victories and smooth away your losses. 1 1/2 ounce bourbon 1 tablespoon Kahlua 1 tablespoon Southern […]