Recipes
Below are some of our recipes to help you bring more joy to your next party.
Kentucky Bloody
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz of Monk’s Road Barrel Finished Gin
7 ½ oz ‘Original Bloody Kentucky’ Bloody Mary Mix
½ oz of hot sauce (optional)
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Mix Gin and Bloody Mary mix in glass.
Add ice and garnish as desired!
Enjoy!
Mint Tulip
— MAKE IT —
2 oz Monk’s Road Dry Gin
½ of lime juice
½ oz strawberry syrup
¼ oz mint syrup
fresh mint leaves
club soda
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Add 3 mint leaves to the shaker and muddle.
Add Gin, lime juice, strawberry syrup, mint syrup and ice.
Shake 5–10 times. Pour over ice in a collins glass.
Top with club soda, garnish with mint sprig.
Enjoy!
Merry Cherry Mule
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ Monk’s Road Wheated Bourbon
½ oz of Modica Tart Cherry Old Fashioned Mix
¼ oz lemon juice
3 oz of ginger beer
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Mix bourbon, cherry-old fashioned mix, and lemon juice in a rocks glass or copper mug. Add ice, top with ginger beer, garnish with a sprig of rosemary and Enjoy!
Lavender Breeze
— MAKE IT —
2 oz Monk’s Road Barrel Finished Gin
1 oz Blueberry Puree
1 oz of Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Lavender Syrup
Top with Club Soda
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Combine Monk’s Road Gin, blueberry puree, and lemon juice in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain over ice in a collins glass. Top with club soda, garnish with lavender sprig or lemon wheel. Serve and Enjoy!
Monk's Road to the Belmont
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ Monk’s Road Wheated Bourbon
2 ¼ oz of Lemonade
1 oz of Pomegranate Juice
Sprig of Mint
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Add all ingredients to shaker with ice.
Shake 10–15 times
Pour over ice in a rocks glass
Garnish with Mint Sprig
Serve and Enjoy!
Cranberry Orange Mule
— MAKE IT —
1.5 oz Monk’s Road Barrel Finished Gin
1.5 oz Cranberry Juice
1.5 oz Fevertree Blood Orange Ginger Beer
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Combine ingredients in a mixing glass.
Serve over ice, garnish with an orange wheel or frozen cranberries, and enjoy!
This makes a great batch cocktail for a gathering as well. Just mix equal parts in a pitcher!
Paper Plane
— MAKE IT —
1 oz monk’s road wheated bourbon
.75 oz Aperol
.75 oz Amaro
.75 oz Lemon Juice
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Add ingredients to a coupe glass
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Serve and enjoy!
Botanical Gin & Tonic
— MAKE IT —
1.5 oz Dry Gin
1.5 oz Tonic
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Add ingredients to a highball glass
Use botanical ice cubes
Garnish with a lime wedge
Serve and enjoy!
Vieux Carre
— MAKE IT —
1 oz Rattle & Snap 4yr
1 oz Cognac
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
.5 Drambuie
2 Dashes Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters
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Add ingredients to a rocks glass
Garnish with a lemon twist
Serve and enjoy!
Black Manhattan
— MAKE IT —
2 oz R&S 4yr
1 oz Amaro
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Add ingredients to a rocks glass
Dash Black Walnut bitters
Garnish with cherries
Serve and enjoy!
Gin Bramble
— MAKE IT —
1.5 oz Barrel Finished Gin
.1 oz Chambord
.5 oz Lemon
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Add ingredients to a rocks glass
Topped with Prosecco
Garnish with a black berry skewer
Serve and enjoy!
Beetle Gin & Juice
— MAKE IT —
1.5 oz monk’s road dry gin
.5 oz lime juice
2 oz raspberry liqueur
1 tsp silver cake shimmer
1 drop of purple food coloring
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Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker &
SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE!
Pour into a rocks glass rimmed with green sugar.
Top with sprite. Serve and enjoy!
Cinna-Gin Cider
— MAKE IT —
1.5 oz monk’s road barrel-finished gin
6 oz apple cider
optional garnishes:
cinnamon
squeeze of lemon
ginger
orange wheel
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Heat the apple cider.
Add cider & Barrel Finished Gin in a rocks glass.
Stir with a bar spoon.
Garnish with an orange slice. Serve and enjoy!
Lucky 47
— MAKE IT —
1.5 oz Barrel Finished Gin
.1 oz Chambord
.5 oz Lemon
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Add ingredients to a rocks glass
Topped with Prosecco
Garnish with a black berry skewer
Serve and enjoy!
Blackberry Jubilee
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road wheated bourbon
¾ oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
¾ oz honey syrup
10 blackberries
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In a shaker, combine 8 blackberries, lemon juice, and honey syrup. Muddle well until the berries are crushed. Add bourbon and ice. Shake well (about 15 shakes). Double Strain into an iced collins glass. Garnish with blackberry,
Festival Old Fashioned
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road wheated bourbon
¾ oz mint syrup
2 dashes angostura bitters
fresh mint for garnish
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Mix Bourbon, mint syrup, and bitters in a rocks glass. Add ice and stir a couple more times.
Garnish with fresh mint.
Serve and enjoy!
Botanical Breeze
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road dry gin
3 oz cranberry juice
1 oz pineapple juice
luxardo cherry
lime slice
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Fill highball glass with ice. Add dry gin, then cranberry juice until the glass is about ¾ full. Top off with pineapple juice.
Garnish with cherry & lime slice. Enjoy!
Boiler House
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road ‘cold spring’ bourbon
¾ oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
¾ oz fresh-squeezed orange juice
¾ oz jack rudy grenadine
1 dashes angostura bitters
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Put all ingredients into cocktail shaker. Shake with ice. Strain into a martini or coupe glass. Serve up. Garnish with an orange twist.
Monk's Mule
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road bourbon
4 oz ale 8 Soda
squeeze of fresh lime
lime wedge
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Fill a copper mug with ice.
Pour bourbon and Ale 8 over the ice.
Squeeze a lime wedge and drop it in.
Garnish with a lime wedge.
Serve and enjoy!
Barrel Finishe Gin Mule
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road barrel finished gin
4 oz ale 8 soda
squeeze of fresh lime
lime wedge
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Fill a copper mug with ice.
Pour gin and Ale 8 over the ice.
Squeeze a lime wedge and drop it in.
Garnish with a lime wedge.
The Louisville
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road bourbon
½ oz monk’s road gin
¼ oz honey syrup
¼ oz blackberry purée
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters
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Honey syrup recipe
1 honey,
1 hot water
Stirred to reduce
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Stirred, strain into coupe glass, luxardo maraschino cherry for garnish.
Serve and enjoy!
Lemon Hot Toddy
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road bourbon
¾ oz local honey
½ oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
4 oz hot water
lemon for garnish
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In a coffee mug, add bourbon,
Honey and lemon juice.
Top with hot water, then serve.
Cranberry Spritz
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road dry gin
1 ¾ oz cranberry syrup
topped with champagne
fresh cranberries for garnish
fresh orange peel for garnish
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In a mixing glass with ice add dry gin and cranberry syrup. Stir. Strain into champagne glass, top with bubbles. Drop in a couple fresh cranberries and orange peel for garnish.
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Cranberry syrup recipe:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup cranberries (fresh or frozen)
zest of 1 orange
sprig of rosemary
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In a two-quart saucepan combine ingredients.
Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
Let cool then strain with cheese cloth.
Stores in refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Monk's Road Spiked Eggnog
— MAKE IT —
12 oz monk’s road bourbon
3 oz monks road barrel finished gin
48 oz eggnog (recipe below)
cinnamon and nutmeg for garnish.
A star anise is also a nice addition.
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Eggnog recipe:
6 large eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
½ teaspoon of nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Salt to taste
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Separate the eggs, whisk the yolks with the sugar, whisk in the milk, cream and liquor, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. In a separate bowl whisk egg whites to soft peak then fold into eggnog. Pour chilled eggnog into a punch glass then dust with cinnamon and nutmeg for garnish.
Holiday Spice Sangria
— MAKE IT —
1 bottle of red wine
1 cup monk’s road barrel finish gin
1 cup gingerbread syrup (recipe below)
1 apple sliced
1 pear sliced
½ lemon sliced
½ lime sliced
½ orange sliced
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In a container combine red wine, gin, syrup and sliced fruit. Chill and let soak for 24 hours and serve cold in wine glass.
Top with fruits of your choice.
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Gingerbread syrup recipe:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
¼ molasses
10 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tablespoon allspice
1 hand of ginger
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In a two quart saucepan Combine ingredients.
Bring to a boil, remove from heat. Let cool.
Once cooled, strain through cheese cloth.
Store in refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Bourbon Pecan Pie
— MAKE IT —
1 oz rivulet
¾ oz monk’s road bourbon
½ oz crème de cacoa
¼ cup crushed pecan for garnish
¼ cup crushed graham crackers for rimmer
caramel sauce for rimmer
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Combine crushed graham crackers and pecans.
Rim snifter glass with caramel sauce, roll in crushed pecans and crushed graham crackers.
Fill mixing glass with ice, add ingredients, stir well. Strain into garnished glass, pour and serve.
Monk's Road Bloody Mary
— MAKE IT —
3 oz bloody kentucky bloody mary mix
1 ½ oz monk’s road dry gin or bourbon
squeeze of fresh lime
fresh cracked pepper to taste
salt to taste
1 dash valentina hot sauce (if preferred spicy)
crisp bacon, celery stock, and olives for garnish
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In a mixing glass with ice add Bloody Mary base, Monks Road gin, squeeze of lime (if preferred add salt, cracked pepper, and Valentina’s)
Stir and Pour into highball glass with ice.
Garnish with your favorite toppings.
"Gin"Gerbread Martini
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road barrel-finished gin
¾ oz gingerbread syrup (recipe below)
¾ oz dry vermouth
crushed gingerbread
molasses syrup
Rim your martini glass with molasses syrup, then roll in crushed gingerbread. In a shaker full of ice, combine ingredients and shake vigorously. Strain into a garnished glass. Serve and enjoy!
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Gingerbread syrup recipe:
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
¼ cup molasses
10 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tbsp allspice
1 large ginger root.
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In a two-quart saucepan, combine ingredients. Bring to a boil, remove from heat. Let cool. Once cooled, strain through cheesecloth. Stores in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Apple Cider Old Fashioned
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road bourbon
½ oz apple cider reduction (recipe below)
2 dashes apple bitters
1 dried cinnamon apple
1 cinnamon stick.
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In a rocks glass combine bourbon, apple cider reduction, & apple bitters. Add ice, then garnish with dried cinnamon apple and cinnamon stick. Serve and enjoy!
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Apple cider reduction recipe:
1 quart apple cider
1 cinnamon stick
Orange slice
1 tsp brown sugar.
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In a 2-quart saucepan combine ingredients.
Over medium/high heat reduce to half.
Let cool. Strain with cheese cloth.
Keeps in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Blackberry Apple Fizz
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road dry gin
1 ½ oz unfiltered apple juice
1 ½ oz ginger beer
1 ½ oz club soda
5 or 6 blackberries
sprig of rosemary
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Fill a collins glass with ice. Muddle 3 or 4 blackberries in a shaker. Add dry gin, unfiltered apple juice, ginger beer, and club soda. Stir, do not shake. Strain into the collins glass.
Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and remaining blackberries. Serve and enjoy!
Maple Bourbon Sour
— MAKE IT —
2 oz monk’s road wheated small batch
¾ oz fresh lemon juice
¾ oz bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup
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Fill your shaker with ice, add maple syrup, lemon juice, and bourbon. Shake well (About 15 times). Strain into a glass with ice.
Peel a lemon and express it on the rim of the glass.
Garnish with that lemon peel.
Monk's Road Hot Chocolate
— MAKE IT —
1 ¼ oz monk’s road small batch bourbon
¾ oz crème de cacao
3 ½ oz hot chocolate
miniature marshmallows
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Mix hot chocolate using whole milk in a coffee mug. Add Bourbon and Crème de Cacao.
Stir and top with miniature marshmallows.
Serve and enjoy!
Cider maple Old fashioned
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road wheated bourbon
1 oz maple syrup
1 oz apple cider
2 dashes orange bitters
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Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass, add ice, and stir until well mixed.
Strain into a rocks glass, add large ice cubes.
Garnish with an apple wedge and orange peel.
Enjoy.
Cranberry Gin Fizz
— MAKE IT —
1 ½ oz monk’s road barrel finish gin
3 oz cranberry juice
½ oz fresh lime juice
top with ginger beer
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Combine barrel-finished gin, cranberry juice, and lime juice in a shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a tall glass.
Add ice and top with ginger beer.
Garnish with fresh cranberries/lime wedge.