Valentine’s Day is only a week away, so it’s time to get ready for the international celebration of love. It’s common on Valentine’s Day to go to bars and cafes with your significant other to spend an evening just for two of you. Some guys focus on intimacy and organize just-for-two parties at home or on the roofs. Regardless of your plans, you need to surprise your Love and here you can read one of the ways of doing so.
In case you’re not a lover, but a bartender who’s willing to earn some great tips from lovely couples this evening, take your notebook and write down the information below. We offer you recipes for four unique cocktails to make this Valentine’s Day special!
NOTE for lovers: skip the description and go straight to ingredients and instructions. You don’t need this much information about a cocktail.
NOTE for bartenders: you do need to read the story of every cocktail to tell it to your customers and get more profit.
Apple Mint Julep
Designed at the Kentucky Derby, this example of the unique cocktails originates its name from Arabic and means “rosewater”. Its roots go back to Persia and then spread to Europe. Exactly there the main ingredient (rose water) was replaced with mint.
When you make the cocktail, ensure that you just bruise the mint leaves, not smash them. Only in this way you will receive bitter inner juice for the cocktail. It must be served ice cold.
Ingredients:
- 2 oz. cinnamon and apple infused bourbon (can be replaced with rye whiskey, gin, Calvados, rum, applejack brandy)
- 1/2 oz. rock candy syrup
- 1/2 oz. fresh sweet and sour mix
- Club soda to your taste
- Fresh spearmint leaves
- Several slices of a red delicious apple for decor
Instructions:
Take rock candy syrup and muddle it with mint leaves. Put sliced red apple at the bottom of the mixing glass, and add syrup with mint. Then top it with ice, bourbon infusion, club soda, and with a sweet & sour mix. Very gently rock back and forth so that the ingredients combine but not mix up completely. Drop the cocktail into a glass, add additional ice if needed, and decorate with a mint sprig and apple slices.
Champagne Cocktail
The Champagne Cocktail was created by a legendary barman Jerry Thomas back in 1862. It was called “Chorus Girl’s Milk,” but today you are not likely to find this name anywhere. Most frequently unique cocktails of this recipe are called just Champagne Cocktail. The recipe below offers one of the most famous and delicious champagne based cocktails ever made.
Ingredients:
- 3 oz. champagne
- ⅓ oz. cognac
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 cube of sugar
Instructions:
Take 2 dashes of Angostura bitter and add them into a champagne flute together with the sugar cube. Pour cognac into the glass and gently add chilled champagne. You can decorate the cocktail with a lemon twist or a strawberry over the top.
Chartreuse Swizzle
This cocktail is a combination of old traditions with modern trends. It originated and gained its popularity in San Francisco, but today it’s served all over the country. If you work in a hot place, then going green with this citrus-centric cocktail is definitely a winning strategy!
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 oz. green chartreuse
- 1/2 oz. velvet falernum (a rum-based drink with ginger, lime, cloves, and almonds flavor)
- 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
- 1 oz. fresh pineapple juice
Instructions:
To serve this cocktail, you will need a Marco Dionysos’s tall glass. All you need is to fill two-thirds of the glass with crushed ice and then pour all ingredients together into it. Then take a swizzle stick and swizzle the cocktail. Add some more crushed ice on top and swizzle again. Serve with straws and lime on the glass. The odd combination of these ingredients makes this drink one of the most unique cocktails to drink on a romantic evening.
Valentine’s Chocolate Martini
Martini is one of those unique cocktails that are popular all over the world. But as you have a special occasion, you need to get creative in order to earn some extra tips. That’s what people thought back in the 19th century, when firstly mixed one of the most popular drinks with the most beloved dessert. Read below the recipe of all unique cocktails called Valentine’s Chocolate Martini.
Ingredients:
- 2 oz. vanilla vodka
- 2 oz. Godiva Chocolate Liqueur (you can use white, milk, or dark chocolate liqueur depending on your taste)
- 4 oz. crème de cacao
- 1 oz. heavy cream
- 1 cup ice
- 1-2 small strawberries for decor
Instructions:
Take a cocktail shaker and put there ice, vanilla vodka, crème de cacao, and chocolate liqueur. Very gently shake the shaker and pour the mixture into a martini glass. Add some heavy cream into the mixture if you want to make the cocktail light and not very strong.
To make your personal Valentine’s Chocolate Martini one of those unique cocktails, you can use melted chocolate and cacao powder to decorate the rim of a glass. To add some spicy taste to the drink, use Crave Chocolate Chili Liqueur instead of a regular one. You can add a strawberry for a beautiful cocktail presentation on the side.
Now you’ve got four recipes of unique cocktails for this Valentine’s Day. Should you be planning a romantic dinner on the rooftop, make sure that you call for professional help of bartenders (whether to learn the art, or to just do it for you), so that you don’t destroy the whole mood with unskilled and tasteless unique cocktails.
For bartenders, these unique cocktails can become a business card in the world of profit on a Valentine’s Day party!
