Insect Infused Cocktail Recipes – January Gross-Out Bar Drink Of The Month

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Corey Rozon

Putting insects in alcohol is not a new trend – Tequila anyone? However, many bars all over the world are now jumping on the entomophagy trend and making cocktails infused with insects, whether as part of the ingredients or just as a garnish.

Just take a look at the Artesian Bar, located in the Langjam Hotel in London. Their insect infused cocktail combines cognac, Japanese tea with roasted tarantulas and scorpions.

Then there is New York City‘s own White & Church. According to this New York Post article from last summer, White & Church now has a host of insect infused cocktails, such as their Blue Velvet, a tobacco-infused brandy garnished with scorpions.

I’ve never been to White & Church myself, so I cannot confirm if these insect infused cocktail rumours are true, but I did take a peek at their online cocktail menu, and sadly, not a bug in sight. Either they weren’t as popular as hoped, or it might also have something to do with their cocktail that included toasted honeybees as a garnish. For those in the know, there has recently been alarming news of honeybees suddenly dying off in large numbers.

If you were hoping to try your own insect infused cocktail, why not mix your own at home. Here is our take on 5 cocktail recipes with a buggy twist:

#1) A Drink Named Irving

1 oz crème de menthe (green)
1 oz crème de cacao (white)
1 oz vodka
6 roasted grasshopper legs for garnish

Shake all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, strain into chilled martini glass, garnish with grasshopper legs, and serve.

#2) A Mosquito

1.25 oz rum
12 mint leaves
12 mosquitoes
1 tbsp sugar
0.5 oz limejuice
2 oz soda

Place mint leaves and mosquitoes in bottom of glass, add crushed ice, rum, sugar, limejuice, and muddle. Top with soda, garnish with mint leaves, and serve.

#3) Barking Spider

1 1/2 oz tequila
1 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
3/4 oz dark rum
1 dash triple sec
1 dash sweet and sour mix
1 splash orange juice
roasted tarantula legs for garnish

Shake all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, strain into chilled collins glass, garnish with tarantula legs, and serve.

#4) June Bug

1 oz melon liqueur
1 oz coconut rum
1 oz pineapple juice
maraschino cherry and roasted June Bug for garnish

Add all liquid ingredients to blender filled with ice, blend on low setting, pour into highball glass, garnish with a skewered maraschino cherry and roasted June Bug, and serve.

#5) Glow-Worm

1 1/2 oz melon liqueur
1 1/2 oz peach liqueur
3 oz orange juice
3 oz pineapple juice
1 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
tequila worm for garnish

Fill a highball glass with ice. Layer ingredients in order of list without mixing. Top with Blue Curacao and float tequila worm on top.

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Movember Party Drink Ideas

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Corey Rozon

Movember is that happy time of year where men around the world sport their best moustaches to raise awareness for prostate cancer. The rules are quite simple, you simply need to start with a clean-shaven face on November 1st, and grow your best moustache by the end of the month.

Not only are Mo Bros raising awareness for prostate cancer, but they are also raising funds for research. For instance, in Canada alone, nearly $22.3 million was raised in 2010. Every step of the way the Movember Campaign is there to support the Mo Bros and Mo Sistas, and at the end of the campaign a big Gala Party is thrown to celebrate their month long efforts.

In support of Movember, and all the Mo Bros and Mo Sistas, BarWhiz has put together this handy list of both, Movember Party Drink Ideas, and locations of the Movember Galas around the world.

Movember Party Drink Ideas:

#1) Burt Reynolds

1/2 oz Spiced Rum
1/2 oz Butter Ripple Schnapps

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, strain into a shot glass, and serve.

#2) Don’t Touch My Moustache

1 1/2 oz Coconut Rum
1 oz Grenadine
4 oz Pineapple Juice

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, strain into a highball glass, and serve.

#3) Moustache Ride

1 oz Gin
Diet Coke

Pour gin and diet coke over ice cubes in a highball glass, stir and serve.

#4) Flaming Moustache

3 oz Vodka
3 oz Passoa Liqueur
1 oz Orange Juice
pepper

Pour vodka, passoa and orange juice over crushed ice in a highball glass, garnish with pepper and serve.

#5) The Mo-Bro-jito

1 1/2 oz White Rum
6 Mint Leaves
1 tbsp Sugar
1/2 oz Lime Juice
2 oz Soda

Place mint leaves in bottom of highball glass, add crushed ice, rum, sugar, and lime juice, and muddle. Top off with soda water and garnish with mint leaves.

Official Movember Gala Parties:

Australia:

November 25th, 2011
Apple Bar
5-9 Synagogue Place
Adelaide, SA

November 29th, 2011
Cloud Land
641 Ann St
Fortitude Valley, QLD

November 30th, 2011
King O’Malley’s
131 City Walk
Canberra City, ACT

November 27th, 2011
The Metz
217 Sandy Bay Road
Sandy Bay, TAS

November 26th, 2011
Festival Hall
300 Dudley St
West Melbourne, VIC

November 27th, 2011
The Bakery
Artrage Complex
233 James St
Northbridge, WA

November 30th, 2011
Luna Park
1 Olympic Drive
Milson’s Point , NSW

Canada:

November 30th, 2011
Flames Central
219 8 Avenue Southwest
Calgary, AB

November 25th, 2011
Cook County Saloon
8010 Gateway Boulevard
Edmonton, AB

November 25th, 2011
Pier 21
1055 Marginal Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia

November 25th, 2011
Théâtre Corona
2490 Notre-Dame West
Montreal, QC

December 2nd, 2011
Kool Haus
132 Queens Quay East
Toronto, ON

December 1st, 2011
Commodore Ballroom
868 Granville St
Vancouver, BC

United States

December 3rd, 2011
The Variety Playhouse
1099 Euclid Ave NE
Atlanta, Georgia

December 1st, 2011
HighBall
1142 S. Lamar Blvd
Austin, Texas

December 1st, 2011
Royale
279 Tremont St
Boston, Massachusetts

December 1st, 2011
Hard Rock
63 West Ontario St
Chicago, Illinois

December 3rd, 2011
Sutra
1109 Lincoln Street
Denver, Colorado

December 1st, 2011
Avalon
1735 Vine St
Los Angeles, California

December 3rd, 2011
Nomad World Pub
501 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, Minnesota

December 2nd, 2011
Roseland Ballroom
239 W 52nd St
New York, New York

December 1st, 2011
Double Deuce
528 F St
San Diego, California

December 1st, 2011
Ruby Skye
420 Mason St
San Francisco, California

December 1st, 2011
The Ballroom
456 N 36th St
Seattle, Washington

December 2nd, 2011
Rock & Roll Hotel
1352 H Street NE
Washington, DC

United Kingdom:

November 29th, 2011
Electric Circus
36 Market St
Edinburgh, EH1 1DF

November 25th, 2011
Battersea Evolution
Chelsea Bridge Entrance
Battersea Park
London, SW11 4NJ

November 27th, 2011
Mr Lynch
Archbold Terrace
Newcastle, NE21DB

Ireland:

December 1st, 2011
Tripod
Old Harcourt Station
Harcourt St
Dublin

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The Best Halloween Themed Martinis

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Corey Rozon

It’s that spooky time of year again, when strange kids disguised as super heroes and ghouls come knocking at you door, begging for treats in the form of candy.

This can be a stressful time of year for any homeowner. What happens if your treats just aren’t good enough, or god forbid, that you run out of candy?

Retribution from the neighbourhood kids in the form of eggs, and toilet paper is usually what happens.

So if you are like me, and need to take a bit of the edge off during this spooky time of year, these Halloween Themed Martinis should do the trick:

1. Bloody Rum
Halloween Cocktail

Ingredients:

10 oz. rum
8 oz. red wine
3 oz. fresh lime juice
3 oz. Triple sec liqueur
3 oz. simple sugar syrup
2 limes.
2 red oranges.

Directions:

Slice limes and orange into thin slices, pour all ingredients and the sliced fruit into a bowl.
Place in the refrigerator for at least two hours before serving. Serve with Ice.

2. Vampire Kiss Martini

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Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Chilled Vodka
1.5 oz. Champagne
0.75 oz Rasberry (better yet Black Raspberry) Liqueur

Directions:

Sparkle red sugar on rim of a Martini glass (you can mix sugar with red food coloring), pour vodka, champagne and half of the liqueur in a Martini glass and mix, pour the remaining liqueur over the back of a spoon to make it float.

3. Jack-O-Tini

Ingredients:

1/2 oz Apple juice
1/2 oz Cranberry Juice
1 1/2 oz Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey
Dash of cinnamon

Directions:
Chill martini glass. Add juice and Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into chilled glass. Garnish with a dash of cinnamon.

4. Wolf Bite

Ingredients:

1 oz Absinthe
1 oz Melon Liqueur
1 oz lemon/lime soda
1.5 oz pineapple juice
Drizzle of grenadine

Directions:

Mix together in a shaker: Absinthe, Melon liqueur, Pineapple juice and ice.
shake and pour into 2 ounce shot glass. Splash a bit of lemon soda and Grenadine,
do not mix in order to keep the creepy look.

5. Swamp Monster Egg-Tini

Ingredients:

1/2 oz dry vermouth
2 oz gin
Ice cubes
handful of caviar eggs

Directions:
Chill martini glass; add the vermouth swirling to coat the glass. Pour out remaining liquid. Add gin to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into chilled glass. Garnish with a handful of caviar eggs and set under black light for vibrant blue effect.

Bonus Halloween Drink: Frog in a Blender
I just had to add this one in. And no, this isn’t from our Gross-Out Bar Drink Of The Month for October.

Ingredients:
2 oz vodka
4 oz cranberry juice
2 lime wheels
Assorted berries
Ice Cubes

Directions:
Place all the ingredients in a blender. Blend for 3-5 seconds (ingredients will not be completely blended). Pour into a chilled hurricane glass.

Also check out these links and recipes for spooky halloween cocktails:

Bloody Heart Martini

Ingredients:
1/2 oz dry vermouth
2 oz premium gin
Ice cubes
Pickled Baby Beet

Directions:
Chill martini glass, add the vermouth swirling to coat the glass. Pour remainding liquid out. Add gin to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into chilled glass. Garnish with a skewered pickled baby beet.

Vampire Killer Cocktail

Ingredients:
3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Dry Vermouth
5 drops of Lime Juice
1 clove of garlic

Directions:
Chill martini glass, add the vermouth swirling to coat the glass. Pour remaining liquid out. Add gin and lime juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into chilled glass. Garnish with a clove of roasted garlic.

Vampire Lover Cocktail

Ingredients:
1 oz white chocolate liqueur
1 oz vanilla vodka
2 oz cream
3 tablespoons corn syrup (for blood)
1/4 teaspoons red food coloring (for blood)

Directions:
Prepare corn syrup and food coloring mixture. Coat the rim of the glass with mixture, allow mixture to drip down the sides. Chill martini glass. Add vodka, chocolate liqueur, and cream to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into chilled glass.

Spider’s Kiss

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Melon Liqueur
1.5 oz Vodka
1 Fresh Lemon
1 Slice of Orange (Optional- Can be dipped in chocolate too)

Directions:
Pour chocholate syrup gently into a Martini glass in the desired shape (try to make a spider’s web), place in the freezer for the chocolate to harden. When done freezing mix the Melon Liqueur and Vodka together and poor into the martini glass, squeeze in some lemon juice (about half an ounce) and add the slice of orange as decoration.

Devil’s Drink

Ingredients:
1 oz Gin
1 oz Pumpkin Spice Liqueur
1/2 oz Peach Brandy
Club Soda

Directions:
Add gin and Pumpkin Spice Liqueur to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into a glass and add club soda to fill.

Spooky Red

Ingredients:
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz light rum
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
Cranberry Juice
Ice cubes

Directions:
Add vodka, light rum, gin, and Peach Schnapps to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into a glass and add cranberry juice until the desired color is reached.

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Peruvian Frog Juice Recipes – October Gross-Out Bar Drink Of The Month

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Corey Rozon

Lima, Peru is famous for, among other things, its frog juice. This ‘tasty’ juice made from Kermit, and about 20 other ingredients, is touted for its health benefits and can cure everything from asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and even impotence. Word on the street is this is the “revenge drink” for ladies who just discovered their “prince” is a frog.

While typically made as a smoothie, many amateur bartenders around the world (not just in Lima anymore) are now adding a little bit of the sauce to turn this healthy frog juice into a cocktail. We’ve decided to update five classic cocktails by adding a froggy twist…

Frog Juice Cocktail Recipes:

Frog juice cocktail recipe #1) Mojito

1.25 oz rum
12 mint leaves
1 tbsp sugar
0.5 oz limejuice
2 oz frog juice

Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, rum, sugar, and limejuice, and muddle. Add frog juice and garnish with mint leaves and frogs legs.

Frog juice cocktail recipe #2) Hurricane

1 oz vodka
1/4 oz grenadine syrup
1 oz gin
1 oz light rum
1/2 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
1 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz triple sec
grapefruit juice
pineapple juice
frog juice

Pour all but the juices, in order listed, into a hurricane glass three-quarters filled with ice. Fill with equal parts of grapefruit, pineapple and frog juice, and serve.

Frog juice cocktail recipe #3) Mai Tai

1 oz light rum
1/2 oz crème de almond
1/2 oz triple sec
sweet and sour mix
frog juice
1/2 oz Myer’s® dark rum

Pour light rum, crème de almond and triple sec, in order, into a Collins glass. Almost fill with equal parts of sweet and sour mix and frog juice. Add dark rum, a large straw, and serve unstirred.

Frog juice cocktail recipe #4) Pina Colada

3 oz light rum
3 tbsp coconut cream
3 tbsp crushed pineapples
frog juice

Put all ingredients into an electric blender with 2 cups of crushed ice. Blend at a high speed for a short length of time. Strain into a Collins glass and serve with a straw.

Frog juice cocktail recipe # 5) Cuba Libre

2 oz light rum
2 oz frog juice
Coca-Cola®

Pour frog juice into a highball glass over ice cubes. Add rum, fill with cola, stir, and serve.

And if Peruvian Frog Juice seems more than deserving of our “Gross-Out Bar Drink Of The Month” award, just remember – It’s not easy being green – especially in Peru.

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