9 Easy Smoked Cocktails
on Oct 02, 2022
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Take your mixology skills to the next level with these 9 easy smoked cocktails. Smoking a cocktail allows the flavors of different ingredients to blend together in an interesting way. The smoke leaves a trace, too, creating fun and fabulous new versions of your old favorites. These 9 easy smoked cocktails are delicious, smooth, and beautiful to look at, so let’s get mixing!
Smoked Cherry Old Fashioned Cocktail
The classic cocktail is given a stylish makeover in this cherry-flavored drink filled with rich, musky notes. Whiskey pairs seamlessly with the subtle hint of smoke and the overall effect is softened by sweet seasonal cherries. It’s beautiful, tasty and elegant.
Smoked Margarita Sour
The flavors you love in the traditional margarita are elevated to a new and delicious dimension in this smoked margarita sour. Cherry wood smoke-infused tequila, smoky salt and vegan foam make this drink a hit with every cocktail enthusiast.
Bourbon Toscano
In this classy drink, Aperol replaces the orange zest from the traditional Old Fashioned recipe and ice is made from water smoked with cherry wood chips. The whole drink is mixed and served over more smoked ice cubes for good measure. If you’re a fan of the original, you simply have to try it.
Smoked Bloody Mary With Smoked Bacon
Brunch this weekend is not complete without this smoked Bloody Mary with smoked bacon. The secret is smoking the tomatoes before adding them to the blender. The cherry on top of this lip-smackingly good savory cocktail is the crispy smoked bacon. Yum!
Smoke And Spice Old Fashioned
This version of the Old Fashioned is for the truly discerning bourbon drinker. The whiskey shines through with just a hint of sweetness, smoke, and spice to keep things interesting.
Smoked Manhattan Cocktail
A delicate kiss of smoke makes bourbon sing in this easy and delicious smoked Manhattan cocktail. Best of all, you won’t need a smoking gun to make it.
Smoked Rose Cocktail
Rosemary and Scotch whisky are a fabulous pairing in this sweet and smoky cocktail. To blend the flavors and create the complex smoky notes, we light a dried rosemary sprig inside a coupe glass and extinguish the flame.
Smoked Rosemary Bourbon Sour Cocktail
Grab your favorite bourbon and try this refreshing mixture of smoked rosemary, sweet lemonade, a dash of bitters, and whiskey. It’s perfect for entertaining, or you can simply spoil yourself with one this weekend.
The Smoked Cherry – A Bourbon And Brandy Cocktail
Cherry bitters, bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup, honey brandy and vermouth blanco come together in this seriously sophisticated cocktail. If you don’t have bourbon, rye will also work as both spirits feature a hint of natural smoke from the charred barrels used to age them.
Easy Smoked Old Fashioned Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
- cocktail cherry
- orange peel
- smoking gun
- ½ teaspoon water
- 2 ounces Bourbon whiskey
- ice cubes
Instructions
- Add the sugar to a lowball glass and drop in the bitters. Add the cocktail cherry and orange peel.
- Using the smoking gun, fill the glass with smoke. Cover the glass with a larger glass or pitcher, wait 2 minutes and then release the smoke. Repeat.
- Remove the cherry and orange peel and set aside. Pour in the water and muddle it with the sugar using a muddler or wooden spoon until the sugar is mostly dissolved.
- Add the bourbon and stir. Drop in ice cubes.
- Squeeze the orange peel into the drink and then gently run it around the edge of the glass. Place the orange peel and cocktail cherry back in the drink.
- Fill the glass with smoke again and cover. Wait 2 minutes, then release the smoke and serve.
Nutrition information provided is an estimate only and will vary based on ingredient brands and cooking methods used.
