Turkey Day Tipples

This holiday season introduce the Thanksgiving feast to your glass. Impress your guests with these recipes full of fall harvest flavors.

Save room for the pumpkin pie and opt for rum raisin in liquid form.

Rum Raisin Cocktail
1.75 oz Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva Rum
1 Bar spoon Fig Preserves
.5 oz Agave Nectar
.5 oz Lemon Juice Fig Preserves
Garnish with raisins.
Add ingredients in a Boston glass. Add ice and shake
vigorously. Strain into rocks glass.

There's no better meal to conclude with Cognac and you don't have to wait till Friday to use up some of the Thanksgiving leftovers. Grab the extra cranberry sauce (because we know there's ALWAYS leftover sauce) and shake up some boozy Holiday 'Sauce' with Hennessy VS.

Holiday “Sauce”
1.5 oz Hennessy V.S.
.5 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
Heaping Tablespoon of Cranberry Sauce (the kind you would have with turkey)
1 dash fee brothers cranberry bitters (optional)
Garnish with an orange twist and a cinnamon-sugar rim
Glass: Coupe or martini
Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker tin with ice, shake until well chilled. Take the coupe or martini glass and rub the rim with a fresh cut lemon, now dip the rim in a plate of cinnamon sugar (1 part cinnamon to 1 part white sugar). Strain the cocktail into the rimmed glass and garnish with an orange twist.

Encompassing all of the warm flavors of the holiday, one sip of the Maple Leaf using Cruzan Rum or The Maple Man with Hennessy VS and you'll forget about visiting the dessert bar.

Cruzan Maple Leaf
2 parts Cruzan® Estate Diamond® Dark Rum
1/2 part Maple Syrup (4 parts dark syrup; 1 part water)
4 dashes Angostura® Bitters
2 dashes Apple Bitters
Method:
Stir ingredients over ice and pour in an old fashioned glass over a large ice cube. Scrape fresh cinnamon on top as garnish.

The Maple Man
1.5 Hennessy V.S
.5 oz Oloroso Sherry
½ a lime
1 whole mandarin without the skin
.25 oz maple syrup
4 dashes of angostura bitters
Garnish with an orange twist
Glass: Rocks
Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker tin with ice, shake until well chilled. Strain the cocktail into a rocks glass with fresh ice and garnish with an orange twist.