Level Two Libations

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The team at Truman & Orange have shared a few of their top Winter Warmer cocktail recipes to snuggle up with. These can be easily made with a few items from your grocery cupboards and by stocking up the liquor cabinets with the spirits we could not indulge in for months. Be safe, enjoy and drink responsibly!

Brave & Bold

Ingredients – makes two (because who likes to drink alone?)

1 1/2 cups Water

1 bag Chamomile tea

2 teaspoons Honey

60ml Whisky (we recommend Bannerman’s Finest Scotch Whisky for its smoothness and slight sweetness)

15ml Elderflower syrup

Squeeze of Lemon Juice

Garnish with a Lemon wedge (when life gives you lemons!)

Method

Boil water and steep the Chamomile tea for 5 minutes. Remove the tea bag and stir in two teaspoons of honey. Allow to cool completely. Here is the fun part: in each rocks glass stir 30ml Whisky and 7.5ml of Elderflower syrup over ice. Pour 2/3 of a cup of tea into each glass and finish with a squeeze of lemon juice. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

The Haunted

Ingredients

50ml Irish Whiskey (we recommend The Sexton Single Malt Irish Whiskey because it’s Irish. And a single malt. Yum!)

5ml Coffee liqueur

5ml Maple syrup

2 Dashes chocolate bitters (or mix a teaspoon of cacao powder with a tablespoon of water as a cheeky lockdown substitute)

Method

Pour all ingredients into a shaker, add ice, shake and serve on the rocks.

Life’s a Peach

Ingredients

50ml Rum (we recommend Don Papa 7-year old Oak-aged Rum for its long-textured finish and vanilla, honey, and candied fruit flavours)

30ml Apple Juice

25ml Stewed Peach Puree (stew some dried peaches, whizz them up in the blender until they’re smooth and bob’s your uncle!)

20ml Lemon Juice

Ginger Ale

Method

Shaken, strained and topped with Ginger Ale.

And if you haven’t got a drop of alcohol in your house, have no fear – you can always order a bottle of Seedlip non-alcoholic distilled spirit here (link to takealot/yuppiechef) and make yourself a delicious alternative to a hot toddy!

Garden Toddy

Ingredients

50ml Seedlip Garden 108

20ml Fresh Lemon Juice

20ml Cloudy Apple Juice

10ml Lemon Verbena Syrup (make it by bringing 2 cups of water and a handful of lemon verbena to the boil, infuse it for 30 minutes and then add 4 cups of caster sugar. Cool, pop it in the fridge and use it after 24 hours.)