Twelve Cocktails of Christmas
No amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of well made cocktail.
Welcome to the Box Bar Twelve Cocktails of Christmas!
Twelve amazing cocktails await you! All you need is ice and the glasses. We've even thrown in some of the bar ware to help get you started on your cocktail journey. A friendly reminder that the shaker is located in box #11.
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Aviation
There’s a myth that the Aviation cocktail can only be made with the gin of the same name. It’s not true and we reckon the Plan B Pepper-Zest gin gives this Aviation a brand new dimension. The cocktail is apparently named due to the crème de violette giving the cocktail a pale sky-blue colour and it dates from the early age of aeronautics when air travel was a glamorous luxury that only the rich could afford.
Ingredients
40mL Plan B Pepper-Zest Gin
20mL Lemon Juice
10mL Maraschino Liqueur
10mL Crème de Violette
Method
Traditionally shaken, we recommend combining all the ingredients over ice and stirring for approximately 20 seconds instead.
Corpse Reviver #2
As the name suggests, The Corpse Reviver is one of a category of pick-me-up cocktails that were prescribed by bartenders of old to revive those souls that appeared in their bar feeling worse for wear from overindulgence in the same place the night before.
Ingredients
20mL Bondi Liquor Co Citrus Gin 15mL Lillet Blanc
15mL Cointreau
20mL Lemon Juice
2-3mL Absinthe (in an atomiser)
Method
Combine all ingredients except the Absinthe in the shaker with ice. Shake until the shaker is ice cold on the outside. Serve in your glass and spray the Absinthe over the top.
Earl Grey Sour
Ingredients
45mL Canberra Distillery Earl Grey Gin
20mL Lemon Juice
30mL Simple Syrup (Sugar)
1mL Orange bitters
Wonderfoam (included with the gin)
Method
Pour both pre-mixed bottles into the shaker, fill with ice and shake until the outside of the shaker is cold. Pour and enjoy. Float the pansy on the foam.
Rhubarb Fizz
Step aside Gin Fizz - let us introduce you to our new favourite variant of this all time classic. The team at Bondi Liquor Co have created a Rhubarb infused gin that is the star of this show.
Ingredients
50mL Bondi Liquor Rhubarb Gin
30mL Lime Juice
15mL Simple Syrup
Wonderfoam (included in the gin) Soda to top
Method
Pour all ingredients (except soda) into the shaker, top with ice, shake until really cold. Pour into your tall glass and fill, to your taste with soda.
Whisky Sour
Sailors would take huge amounts of lemons, limes and oranges on voyages. They would also bring alcohol, and the best alcohol was kept at room temperature, like whisky and bourbon. The whisky sour was a perfect combination of citrus, to combat scurvy, and whisky to quench the sailor’s thirst.
Ingredients
50mL Maker’s Mark Bourbon
30mL Lime or Lemon Juice
15mL Simple Syrup
Wonderfoam (incl in Whisky) Angostura Bitters (incl in Whisky)
Method
Pour all bottles into the shaker, fill with ice, shake until it’s too cold to hold. Pour into your glass, enjoy. Garnish with an orange wheel.
Old Fashioned
Traditionally served in an “old fashioned glass” which got its name simply because it existed before the cocktail did.
Ingredients
50mL Woodford Reserve Bourbon 1-2mL Bitters
1 Sugar Cube
Ice
Method
Place the sugar cube in the bottom of your glass, pour a small (3-5mL) of your bourbon on top and use a spoon to break apart and muddle the sugar cube. Once the sugar is partially dissolved, fill the glass with ice and pour the remainder of the bourbon in.
French Martini
The French martini is a vodka- based cocktail. It was invented in the 1980s at one of Keith McNally’s New York City bars. It next appeared on the drinks menu at McNally’s Balthazar in SoHo in 1996. However, the cocktail was produced during the 1980s–1990s cocktail renaissance. Trust us, it’s a crowd pleaser!
Ingredients
30mL Absolut Vodka
30mL Chambord
45mL Pineapple Juice
Method
Pour all the ingredients into the shaker, top with ice and shake vigorously. Pour into your martini glass and garnish with freeze dried raspberries.
Vesper
The Vesper, also known as the Vesper Martini, was made famous by James Bond. The cocktail was invented by none other than Bond author Ian Fleming. The drink first appeared in his book “Casino Royale” which was published in 1953, and the cocktail is named for the fictional double agent Vesper Lynd.
Ingredients
45mL Bass & Flinders Wild & Spicy Gin
30mL Absolute Vodka
15mL Lillet Blanc
2-3mL Dry Vermouth
Method
Combine all the ingredients over ice and stir. Despite what James Bond said. Garnish with lemon.
El Diablo
The origins of the El Diablo are typically traced back to Trader Vic’s, the mid-century tiki-bar chain founded by Victor Bergeron. The drink appeared in Trader Vic’s cocktail manual in 1946, and Bergeron put a “Mexican El Diablo” on his 1947 cocktail menu.
Ingredients
45mL Anejo Tequila
15mL Crème de cassis
25mL Lime Juice
60mL Ginger Beer
Method
Shake the first three ingredients with ice until cold. Pour over new ice into a tall glass and top with ginger beer. Garnish with lime.
Paloma
Some believe that it is named after La Paloma (“The Dove”), the popular folk song composed in the early 1860s. Diffords guide states it was created by the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner and bartender of La Capilla, in Tequila, Mexico.
Ingredients
50mL Reposado Tequila
12mL Lime Juice
4mL Agave Necter
Capi Grapefruit Soda
Method
Add the first three ingredients to your glass, fill with ice and top up with Capi Grapefruit to your taste.
Paloma
Some believe that it is named after La Paloma (“The Dove”), the popular folk song composed in the early 1860s. Diffords guide states it was created by the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner and bartender of La Capilla, in Tequila, Mexico.
Ingredients
50mL Reposado Tequila
12mL Lime Juice
4mL Agave Necter
Capi Grapefruit Soda
Method
Add the first three ingredients to your glass, fill with ice and top up with Capi Grapefruit to your taste.
Daiquiri
The cocktail is named after the location it was created in the town of Daiquiri on the southeastern tip of Cuba, and was supposedly invented in 1898 by an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox.
Ingredients
50mL Brix White Rum
30mL Lime Juice
20mL Sugar Syrup
Method
Shake all the ingredients over ice. Pour and garnish with a lime wheel.
Negroni
A Negroni is an Italian cocktail, made of one part gin, one part vermouth rosso and one part Campari, garnished with orange peel. It is considered an aperitivo.
Ingredients
30mL Giniversity Australian Native Gin
30mL Campari
30mL Sweet Vermouth
1-2mL Orange bitters
Method
Stir all ingredients over ice for 30 seconds. Garnish with orange.
Thanks for joining us, happy Christmas!