The Lost Bunny

The Lost Bunny, as served at Old Hickory Whiskey Bar
• 1.25 oz Dry Sack Sherry
• .25 oz Freshly squeezed lemon juice
• .5 oz Honey syrup (1:1 honey to water)
• .5 oz Angostura Amaro
• 5 Sage leaves
• 3 dashes El Guapo® Holiday Pie Bitters
• Chilled champagne

In a clean shaker, muddle 3 sage leaves & fill with ice. Add sherry, syrup, juice, liquor & bitters. Shake until well chilled & strain through a mesh sieve into a flute. Top off cocktail with champagne & garnish with two sage leaves angled like bunny ears.

Corpse Reviver No. 2

This simplified version of a New Orleans classic is perfect year-round, but particularly fun for Halloween gatherings! Serve in black glassware or garnish with a cube of dry ice for an even spookier libation.

Corpse Reviver No. 2
• 1 oz Gin
• 1 oz Lillet Blanc
• 1 oz Cointreau
• 1 oz El Guapo® Olde English Lemonade & Collins Mix
• 4 dashes El Guapo® Love Potion #9 Bitters
• Lemon peel, for garnish

In a clean shaker filled with ice, pour gin, Lillet Blanc, Cointreau and syrup. Shake until well chilled. Srain into a chilled martini glass and top with 4 dashes of Love Potion #9. Garnish with a lemon peel, expressing the peel’s natural oils before serving.

High Volt

Happy Fall, y’all! This cocktail, which is equally delicious with overproof rum or rye whiskey, is the perfect replacement for Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING.

• 3 oz overproof rum or high proof rye whiskey (we used Thirteenth Colony rye, but any quality rum or rye will do)
• .75 oz El Guapo® Sweet Potato Syrup
• .5 oz Becherovka
• .75 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 4 dashes El Guapo® Spiced Cocoa Tea Bitters
• Orange twist, for garnish

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine all ingredients and shake until well chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange twist, expressing oils before serving.

Bee’s Knees

Created by @garnish_girl, Katie Stryjewski. The Bee’s Knees cocktail was created for Bee’s Knees Week – where bars around the country served this classic cocktail and donated the proceeds to local schools to fund the installation of beehives!

Bees Knees
•  2 oz. Gin (Katie used @barrhillgin)
•  .75 oz. Freshly squeezed lemon juice
•  .75 oz. honey syrup (1:1)
• 1 dash El Guapo® Cucumber Lavender Bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a coupe. Garnish with every edible flower you can find. 💐

Mother of Pearl

Created by Lane Primeaux, Beverage Director of Soji in Baton Rouge. This is the perfect floral cocktail to survive the summer heat.

MOTHER OF PEARL
• 2 oz rose hip infused Shochu (directions below)
• .75 oz Black Rose Giffard Liqueur
• .5 oz fresh lemon juice
• .25 oz El Guapo® Classic Greek Rose cordial
• .5 oz egg white
• Dehydrated rose petals, for garnish

In clean shaker filled with ice, combine Shochu, liqueur, juice, cordial and egg white. Shake thoroughly until well chilled. Strain into a coupe, and garnish with dehydrated rose petals prior to serving.

To create infused Shochu, pour one 750 mL bottle of shochu over one cup of dehydrated rose petals in a non-reactive container to steep. Reserve empty bottle. Allow to infuse at room temperature for for up to 24 hours – knowing the longer you steep the stronger the floral notes in the alcohol will be. Strain mixture through cheese cloth, and re-bottle using funnel. The infused Shochu will keep for up to two months if properly refrigerated.

Seasonal 75

A refreshing summer take on our cities’ famous French 75, this recipe was created by Sac-a-Lait‘s head bartender Norton Christopher and featured in Wine Enthusiast.

• 2 oz gin, preferably Euphrosine #9
• .75 oz blueberry syrup (recipe below)
• .75 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 3 dashes El Guapo® Summer Berries bitters
• Cava, to top
• Lemon twist, for garnish

In a shaker filled with ice, combine gin, syrup, juice and bitters. Shake well, then strain into flute. Top with Cava. Garnish with lemon twist before serving.

Blueberry Syrup

• 1 cup fresh blueberries
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup water

Place ingredients in pot with water and cook on medium-low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Reduce heat to low, and simmer until syrupy, about 15 minutes. Let mixture cool, then purée and strain. If mixture becomes too thick to pour, thin with basic simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water). Extra syrup will keep refrigerated for up to two weeks.

Cool Hand Cuke

Created by Chelsea S. O’Lansen of The Catahoula Hotel for New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles Magazine

• 1 Egg white
• .75 oz Freshly squeezed cucumber juice
• .75 oz Vanilla simple syrup*
• .75 oz Freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1.5 oz BarSol Mosto Verde Pisco
• 4 dashes El Guapo® Cucumber Lavender Bitters

In a shaker tin filled with ice, combine egg white, cucumber juice, simple syrup, lemon juice, Pisco and bitters. Shake once (hard) with ice, discard ice and shake again without, then double strain into a coupe or Nick and Nora. Garnish with Angostura bitters and an edible flower.

* To make vanilla simple syrup, simply add .25 ounces of vanilla extract (O’Lansen uses homemade) to 24 ounces of regular 2:1 simple syrup