Blue Curacao cocktail recipes
Pour blue curacao, blackberry liqueur and grenadine into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Add sparkling white wine, stir well, and serve.
Place all the fruits in a blender and puree, add blue curacao and Cointreau then pulse until combined. Add water and ice and pulse until combined. Serve in tall glass with rim dipped in sugar and lemon juice and a slice of orange on side.
Chill the grenadine. Pour the blue curacao into a champagne flute. Add the sprite to taste. Slowly pour the grenadine into the glass in order for it to sink. Add the Bailey's irish cream with a teaspoon slowly in the glass to allow it to float, and serve.
Mix in a highball glass. Stir. Garnish with a slice of lemon.
Pour both ingredients into a collins glass filled with ice cubes. Stir and serve.
Pour both ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes, and serve.
Pour the blue curacao, white creme de cacao and cream into a cocktail shaker half-filled with cracked ice. Shake well, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and serve.
Mix ingredients and serve over ice.
Combine all ingredients over ice.
Layer both ingredients in a cocktail glass, and serve.
Pour the blue curacao and grenadine into a highball glass. Fill with pineapple-flavored wine, to taste, and stir. Garnish with a slice of pineapple.
Shake vigorously in a shaker with lots of ice. Strain into a glass, garnish with a red cherry, and serve.
Shake and serve over ice cubes in a champagne saucer.
Fill highball glass with ice. Pour curacao over ice then fill with milk.
Pour curacao over ice in a tumbler. Add raspberry cordial and lemonade at the same time so that the combined effect mixes the drink. Tastes like the lollies called Fruit Tingles.
Pour curacao over ice in a highball glass, then fill the rest of the way up with ginger ale.
Pour blue curacao into a cocktail glass. Pour the orange juice over it. Stir and serve cold.
Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice. Add blue curacao and sour mix. Top off with cola. Stir until a greenish/blue mixture is obtained.
Pour the milk over a single ice cube in a cocktail glass. Add blue curacao and creme de cacao simultaneously. Stir briefly, and serve.
Place all ingredients in a shaker and shake well. Pour over ice in an old-fashioned glass.
Pour the blue curacao, parfait amour and lastly the lemonade into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Drop in the grenadine at the side of the glass so that it sinks to the bottom, and serve.
Pour the blue curacao, Southern Comfort, galliano, cream and orange juice into a mixing glass half-filled with cracked ice. Stir well. Strain into a champagne saucer. Garnish with ice chips and 8-10 drops of blue curacao, and serve.
Fill two-thirds of a shot glass with blue curacao. Fill completely with grenadine, stir, and serve. Drink slowly.
Shake with ice and strain into Champagne Flute.
Make pousse-cafe (layered) in a cordial or liqueur glass, and serve.
Cocktails in the Blue Category
Here are the highest ranked cocktails featuring the color blue.
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Citrus drink with a blue appearance
Refreshing pick me up that looks pretty cool too.
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A beautiful Thai inspired cocktail designed to evoke swimming and getting sunburnt in the most exotic beaches in the world.
The drink look like the deep pacific sea.
It's a little blue green but good
Refreshing cocktail to celebrate the birthday of the U.S. Air Force!
Smooth and tasty amaretto sour with a hint of blueberry
Beautiful blue combo cocktail. Citrus blends. Captivating intense color.
Refreshing and sweet.
A really nice taste with an amazing colour gradient. If you do it right, you get "clouds" of purple hanging in the red of the grenadine.
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Its a small drink with a really peculiar taste. Its half dark green and half red with a little white inside
Blue Cocktails Are Coming Back, and They Are Delicious
Danny Meyer just launched his latest project, a rough-hewn, deep South-accented bar in New York’s west Chelsea, Porchlight, where he’s doling out bourbon bar nuts, cheddar corn bread, rye whisky, and homemade cola. One cocktail on his list is a standout: Gun Metal Blue, a smoky mezcal base with a rich citrus kick that also happens to be, well, blue. Porchlight isn’t alone. Among cocktail jockeys, blue curaçao is making as unlikely (and impressive) a comeback as Michael Keaton did in Birdman.
Take Alex Kratena, head bartender at the award-hogging Artesian in London. He regularly uses the colorful liqueur in his Wonka-like creations, like the gin-based Bubble Tea Blue Lagoon. (It involves green tea-infused blue curaçao and ponzu vinegar.) Or Jim Meehan, who reports that one of the top sellers at his beloved Manhattan speakeasy, PDT, is the pastel blue Shark, topped with a paper umbrella. San Francisco’s Dirty Habit combines gin, sherry, pineapple juice, and blue curaçao to make Son of the Beach, while the team at Kirkland Tap and Trotter near Boston uses its own house-made curaçao in the tequila-based Leaps and Bounds.
One of Jim Meehan’s top sellers at beloved Manhattan speakeasy, PDT, is the pastel blue Shark created by John deBary.
The exact origins of blue curaçao are hazy. Most experts credit Dutch booze conglomerate Lucas Bols with introducing it some time in the early 20 th century. Bols took a traditional triple sec made from bitter oranges grown on the namesake island and added a cheery slug of artificial dye for extra shelf appeal. By the 1950s, this neon liqueur was widely available; to boost sales, a rep from the firm encouraged a Waikiki bartender to create a vodka-and-pineapple-based drink called the Blue Hawaii. In an era of Hawaii Five-O and tiki bars, this kitschy tribute to Polynesia became a runaway success, quickly making Bols’ blue tincture ubiquitous on back bars. (Perhaps it’s also the reason Romulan ale is aquamarine.)
The liqueur’s reputation suffered in the 1970s and '80s, when it was too closely linked with the sweet, proudly artificial drinks that were becoming staples on cruises and at cheap beach resorts. By the 1990s, when a few nerdish purists reached back past Prohibition for skills and recipes to kickstart a new age of bartending, blue drinks were sneerily dismissed, and blue curaçao was used more as a punchline than for punch. It’s for that very reason New Zealand bartender Jacob Briars became its unofficial champion.
“Cocktail archeology—bringing back drinks from pre-Prohibition, or creating bespoke bitters—comes with a slightly suffocating seriousness at times,” Briars says, proudly brandishing a bottle of blue curaçao at the kitchen counter of his apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y. “I love serious drinks, but really? Can we no longer have fun?”
Briars has worked as a brand ambassador for more than a decade—currently, in a senior position with Bacardi—but it was eight years ago, while organizing a cocktail competition, that his sense of mischief was piqued by a silly Facebook group. “It was called "Jihad on All Blue Drinks," and I thought: Is this what we have come to?” he laughs. Briars started experimenting with some blue curaçao and devised a witty riff on the newly rediscovered gin-based cocktail from the 1930s, the Corpse Reviver Number 2; he called it the Corpse Reviver Number Blue.
The Bubble Tea Blue Lagoon from Artesian in London.
Delicious yet subversively day-glo, it became a cult favorite among colleagues; soon, rebel bars were offering their own blue drinks, a nosethumbing gesture to the snooty affect of some new cocktail joints. One Melbourne den even playfully offered the chance to upgrade any drink on its menu with a slug of blue curaçao for 50 cents. (They called it ‘sabotage’.)
By 2012, the blue bandwagon had gained enough momentum that Briars was asked to helm a seminar on the subject at Tales of the Cocktail, the bartending world’s boozy version of Davos. This endorsement rapidly encouraged the revival of blue curaçao over the last two years—and for good reason. It’s a versatile spirit, a citrusy triple sec that can sub for Cointreau or Grand Marnier in most recipes, deeding a slightly sweeter, heavier flavor profile and a proudly unnatural color to the resulting mashup.
Bols may make the best-known blue curacao, but there are alternatives, such as the Genuine Curacao Liqueur, made on the island by the Senior & Co. family, or Kirkland Tap & Trotter’s small batch house liqueur, cooked up over 20 days from vodka, gin, bitter orange peel, and cloves before receiving its signature tint. Briars, who championed blue curaçao as a deliberate rebuttal of such artisanal intensity, is keen to preserve its kitschy joy. “There’s not a single time you can put a blue drink down in front of people when it doesn’t make them smile.” He pauses, “And that’s what we’re in this industry for, after all.”
Drink This Now.
Inspired to dabble in blue drinks at home? Start off by making these three modern classics, including the drink with which Briars began it all.
Corpse Reviver Number Blue
The Corpse Reviver Number Blue.
By Jacob Briars
1 oz Bombay Sapphire
1 oz Lillet Blanc
1 oz blue curaçao
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 dash of absinthe
Shake well, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with a lemon zest.
Blue Shark
By John deBary, PDT, New York
1.5 oz. Butter-infused Bacardi Heritage Rum*
.75 oz. lemon juice
.5 oz. Wray and Nephew Overproof Rum
.5 oz. pineapple juice
.375 oz. Frangelico
.375 oz. Senior Blue Curaçao
.25 oz. cane syrup
.25 oz. heavy cream
.25 tbsp. Bittermens Elemakule Tiki Bitters
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled rocks glass filled with pebble ice. Garnish with a lemon wheel and an umbrella.
(*To produce buttered rum, melt one stick of unsalted butter over a medium heat. (Do not brown.) Add to 750ml of rum, leave for 24 hours at room temperature to infuse, then put in the freezer for two hours. Remove the fat with a fine strainer and bottle.)
Son of the Beach
San Francisco’s Dirty Habit combines gin, sherry, pineapple juice and blue curaçao to make Son of the Beach.
By Brian Means, Dirty Habit, San Francisco
1 oz. Citadelle Gin
1 oz. Fino Sherry
.5 oz. pineapple gum
.5 oz lemon juice
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and shake for about 10-15 seconds to chill down. Double strain over shaved ice in a double old fashioned and garnish with pineapple leaves and seasonal berries.
Gun Metal Blue
By Nick Bennett, Porchlight, New York
1.5 oz Mezcal Vida
.25 oz peach brandy
.25 oz bitter cinnamon syrup
Shake all the ingredients with ice and strain into a coupe, topping with a sliver of orange peel. (Singe with a raw flame, if possible, before dropping into the liquid.)
10 Delicious Blue Curacao Cocktails
What better way to cure the blues than to enjoy a blue curacao cocktail?
Blue curacao is a liqueur that is most commonly used to make striking cocktails and shooters. The blue is absolutely stunning—just what you want a cocktail to look like. The taste has a citrus flavor to it which is why it's so refreshing to drink. In my mind it's the perfect liqueur to star in a summer cocktail, although I'll admit I drink it all year around in some of these fabulous cocktails.
Let's look at how curacao is made and ten fantastic cocktails that you can make with it that are sure to impress your guests.
Quick Peek at the Blue Curacao Cocktails + Flavor Combinations
What Is Blue Curacao?
Curacao is a liqueur that has an orangey flavor to it. It gets this flavor from the peels of the laraha citrus fruit that is grown on the island of curacao (which is where the liqueur gets its name).
The laraha are descendants of the Valencia oranges that were brought to Curacao in the 1500s by Spanish explorers. Neither the soil or climate were suited to growing oranges and the original Valencia oranges evolved into the laraha.
The laraha are too bitter to be eaten. The skins, however, can be used. When making the curacao liqueur, the laraha peel is dried. The drying process releases the laraha's sweetly fragranced essential oils. Once dried, the skins are soaked in alcohol and water for a few days before they are removed.
Curacao liqueur is actually colorless. Artificial color is added to it frequently, however, most commonly blue. Blue curacao can make some very striking cocktails. I have included 10 of them for you to enjoy.
1. Blue Lagoon
My favorite blue curacao cocktail
- 1 oz vodka
- 1/2 oz blue curacao
- Lemonade
Fill a highball glass with ice, add the vodka and blue curacao and top up with lemonade, stir and serve.
This cocktail is great to drink on a warm summers afternoon as it has a lovely refreshing flavor and with the lemonade component of it making it into a 'tall drink' it's not as potent as some other refreshing cocktails can be!
2. Blue Hawaiian
A cocktail to get everyone dancing!
- 1/2 oz light rum
- 1/2 oz blue curacao
- 2 oz pineapple juice
- 1/2 oz coconut cream
- 1 cup of ice
Place all of the ingredients into a blender, blend and serve in a highball glass with a pineapple wheel and some cherries as garnish.
3. Midnight Kiss
The slow dance of the evening . . . or just a drink for a special evening for two.
- 1 1/2 oz vodka
- 1/2 oz blue curacao
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- Champagne
Place the vodka, blue curacao, lemon juice and ice into a cocktail shaker and shake, then strain into a champagne flute and top up with champagne.
A very striking looking cocktail
- 1 1/2 oz. silver tequila
- 2 oz pineapple juice
- 1/2 oz. blue curacao
Pour tequila into a glass and fill with ice. Add pineapple juice and stir well. Top with Blue Curacao and stir lightly. Garnish with a cherry.
5. Big Easy Blue Punch
This one made the top 50 holiday drinks list. I'll say no more.
- 1 oz blue curacao
- 2 oz coconut rum
- 2 oz pineapple soda
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
Combine blue curacao, rum and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a rocks glass. Top with pineapple soda and garnish with lemon wheel.
6. Blue Diablo
Don't drink too many of these—the name says it all.
- 1 1/4 oz Jose Cuervo Clasico
- 1/4 oz blue curacao
- Juice of half lime
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- Club soda
Mix tequila, blue curacao, lime juice and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour into a short glass and top with club soda.
7. Blue Monday
Love the song and the drink's not bad either.
- 2 oz vodka
- Вј oz triple sec
- Вј oz blue curacao
Place all of the ingredients together with ice into a cocktail shaker, shake and serve in a martini glass.
8. Bluebird
One for the gin drinkers.
- 2 oz gin
- 1 oz triple sec
- 1 oz blue curacao
- 2 dashes bitters
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.
9. Blue Margarita
A classic blue curacao cocktail.
- 2 oz tequila
- 1 oz blue curacao
- 1 oz triple sec
- 1 oz lime juice
- Salt
- Garnish: lime wedge
Rim the glass with salt. Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into the margarita glass being careful of the salt rim.
10. Electric Blue Margarita
A classic with a retro peach schnapps twist
- 1 oz triple sec
- 1 oz silver tequila
- 1/2 oz peach schnapps
- 1/2 oz blue curacao
- 4 oz sour mix
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Fill glass with ice. Strain the mixture over fresh ice and garnish with lemon slice and serve.
Indianapolis Cocktail
This cocktail is fairly new to me and while it makes a nice change from the Blue Lagoon, it doesn't have as much flavor as the Blue Hawaiian for example. It looks sensational however.
Mix the ingredients together in a mixing glass with ice before straining into martini glasses to serve.
Printable Version
If you'd like to get these recipes in a printable version, then I've got you covered as I've included them all on this Google document. Cheers!
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Which Is Your Favorite?
Lou165 15 months ago from Australia
Sounds delicious, I'll have to get some more Banana Liqueur and try that one.
My daughter had a blue Curacao cocktail in Corfu. Said to be the barman's personal one. It consisted of Blue Curacao, Bailey's Cream and Banana Liqueur. Said it tasted fabulous.
Diana Grant 2 years ago from London
Just clearing out my alcohol cupboard and came across something blue in a plastic bottle. Wasn't sure if it was blue curacao or blue spirit for my fondue. The only way to find out was to taste it, which I did very gingerly. Happily it tasted good so I was delighted to find your cocktail recipes. I didn't have any vodka, 'cos my partner drinks it as soon as he finds it - lol - so thought I'd try something else. I've got the lemon, lemonade and ice so will scout around for the final mystery ingredient to incorporate into what I'm sure will be a delightful aromatic drink. so cheers, and here's to you down-under
Susanna Duffy 3 years ago from Melbourne Australia
I've never known what made blue curacao blue!
Wow they all sound good. especially the Big Easy Blue Punch. Can't wait to try your recipes! Thanks for a mouthwatering lens. Cheers!
Paula Hite 3 years ago from Virginia
Great lens Lou! It will be on our Tumblr page on May 17.
GramaBarb 4 years ago from Vancouver
Love the Blue Hawaiian !
So perfect running across your lens today as I just found a bottle while cleaning out the liquor closet and was wonder what festive drinks I might make this weekend!
ConvenientCalendar 4 years ago
My favorite blue curacao cocktail. Nice choices!
Really nice idea. It seems that I don't have any other choice but to sets all those cocktails myself. Thank you very much :)
blue and alcohol.. 2 of my fav things
blueredblueyellow 4 years ago
I love this page! Great ideas -- and lots I'd like to try :)
Allison Whitehead 4 years ago
Oooh sounds lovely - do I have to pick a favourite?
MissMalaprop 4 years ago
I love Blue Curacao! Don't have a favorite recipe, but if it's blue, it's fun & yummy!
My favourite cocktail is called Mushy Peas:
1 part apple juice
1 part orange juice
A dash of blue curaçao (although I always put more in than I should)
Cocktail Making 4 years ago
Love these, Blue is such a good colour for cocktails..
Lou165 4 years ago from Australia
@PunkyMedic LM: 1 part gin
1 part blue curacao
1 part peach schnapps
3 parts apple juice
Shake all of the ingredients together with ice and strain into a glass to serve.
PunkyMedic LM 4 years ago
What is a Blue Marlin made out of? I've had this drink before in southern Florida.
DecoratingEvents 4 years ago
The Indianapolis cocktail looks very interesting! Great list of drinks using Blue Curacao!
kerryhrabstock 4 years ago
Love the Blue Margarita.
Visited this lens before, and as I've got wings, returned to spread around some angel dust!: )
Dorothy Holder 4 years ago from New Zealand
drinking blue to feel in the pink. nom nom nom
VspaBotanicals 4 years ago
Blue Lagoon as well.
I could drink it all just now :)
Mines the Blue Lagoon as well. Although looking at your recipes I may change my mine as the Bluebird looks good too. Oh dear, looks like I will have to conduct my own taste test. such is life! lol
Clairissa 4 years ago from OREFIELD, PA
They all sound delicious!
Stephen J Parkin 4 years ago from Pine Grove, Nova Scotia, Canada
Blue Lagoon for me too.
jamesdesalvo lm 4 years ago
The Indianapolis Cocktail sounds great right about now!
LynetteBell 4 years ago from Christchurch, New Zealand
A nice list of blue cocktails to try!
I like these Blue Curacao Cocktails
iulianaionescu 4 years ago
I think I'll try the Blue Monday cocktail. :)
Lou165 4 years ago from Australia
@anonymous: They're written for one person.
For how many people are the recipes written?
Hope 4 years ago from Skokie, Illinois
My favorite is the Yale Cocktail - gin, blue curacao and dry vermouth, although the Blue Cowboy is great, too (gin and blue curacao)!
Cocktail Making 4 years ago
Totally agree, with it one of our most used cocktail ingredients - makes the cocktails really stand out. Great Lens, strong knowledge shown.
JoyfulPamela2 5 years ago from Pennsylvania, USA
I've never had any of these before, but the color sure looks appealing.
We always used it to make Romulan Ale!
Lou165 5 years ago from Australia
@HhaosThorngage: That sounds pretty dangerous, but I will still have to try it :)
HhaosThorngage 5 years ago
There is a drink at a local bar here that is just like a long island, they just substitute the cola for Curacao, great lens!
I've never tried any of them but I would like to
electric blue margarita, it is strong . hic
Reputable_Source 5 years ago
The blue reminds of Romulan Ale from Star Trek. Thanks for the lense :d
My favorite is the Blue Lagoon, but the others sound wonderful as well. This is Rainbow week on Squidoo and this is one of my favorite blue things. Thanks for a great lens and wishing you a smooth, cool, blue drinK! Enjoy!
These look delicious! I wish I could make them, but I can't or else I'd probably give myself a heart attack with all the medications I have to take.
I love the sky blue colour and there are plenty of recipes here that one can try.
aquarian_insight 5 years ago
Delicious and gorgeous to look at - blue curacao cocktails are always a treat. Lovely lens.
I do love Blue Hawaiians. Anything with pineapple juice usually tastes good. And can't complain about a little rum either!
WebMarketingPro 5 years ago
I love drinkables in this color. Not sure why this is. Maybe because this color doesn't occur in food naturally? At least not very often.
Thanks for the great lens. I'll have to try some of these cocktails.
They all sound very good, can't wait to try a few. Fab recipes and fab info about the drink - well done
evannecarter 5 years ago
Great info. Not familiar with the topic of the lens, but enjoyed learning about it.
looks taste good :-) my son asking when can try it
Miha Gasper 5 years ago from Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU
Blue is my favorite color. Cheers!
Midnight kiss sounds like it would be fun :)
Michelle 5 years ago from Central Ohio, USA
Great lens. you definitely made me thirsty.
Delightful - pinned to my "Favorite Drinks" board.
Spiderlily321 5 years ago
I love blue curacao! Great recipes here that I gotta try sometime. Thanks for sharing.
Kristen 5 years ago from Wisconsin
YUM! My favorite was the Midnight Kiss! Can't wait to try. Great job on the lens!
Lori Green 5 years ago from Las Vegas
I haven't had Blue Curacao in years. Time to hit the clubs.
Lorna Jean Aro 5 years ago
I love blue lagoon too! nice lens :D
They all look great. I can't wait to try one of them.
Cynthia Davis 5 years ago from Pittsburgh
I'm also a big fan of the Blue Lagoon cocktail. I love the blue tropical look of this drink, too!
Nice lens! Electric Blue Margarita.
1/2 shot of Blue Curacao
1/4 shot of vodka
1/2 shot of sourpuss
Topped with 7-up or Sprite
cocktailsexaminer 6 years ago
My favorite is actually the Capri Sun - tastes just like those pouches kid's drink! Blue Curacao is an underrated liquor, great lens!
I love Curacao Cocktails! And I think Midnight Kiss it's the best!
julieannbrady 7 years ago
You know, I don't think I see my drink -- it's a bit of a teal color but I know it is made with Blue Curacao -- and I always got it at Jaguars game -- BUT it costs $15.00 for a big one.
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Blue Lagoon
A brilliant, turquoise 1970s classic, the Blue Lagoon may look and sound tropical, but it's a deliciously tangy, citrus harmony of vodka, blue curaçao and lemonade.
About this recipe
Ingredients
Smirnoff No. 21® Vodka
Smirnoff No. 21® Vodka
A vodka that's known around the world, Smirnoff is born of a long history of charcoal filtration to give smooth mouth feel and a pure, clean flavour.
How to make
Fill a highball glass with cubes of ice.
Using a jigger, measure 50ml Smirnoff No. 21 Vodka and 150ml lemonade into the glass.
Stir the mixture until well combined.
Drizzle 25ml Blue Curaçao liqueur over the mixture.
Using a sharp knife and chopping board, cut a slice of lemon and secure onto the rim of the glass.
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Finding Nemo
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10 Blue Alcoholic Drinks & Cocktails for Parties
Parties, never any fun without some interesting alcoholic drinks to make you, the host with the most. Here are 10 Interesting blue alcoholic drinks for your party that you can make at home with just a few ingredients.
10. Electric Cool-Aid
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 56 milliliter ( 2 Oz ) of Limoncello
- 14 milliliter ( 0.5 Oz ) of Blue Curacao
- 56 milliliter ( 2 Oz ) of Club Soda
- 70 milliliter ( 2.5 Oz ) of Grape juice
How to make: Start of by putting 2 ice cubes into a cocktail or brandy glass. Pour the Limoncello , blue curacao and the club soda over the ice cubes and stir them so they can mix together. After a good stir add the grape juice on top so you can get an interesting looking layering of the mixture of drinks. Stir very little so the juice can mix but make sure to leave that awesome looking effect. Enjoy.
Time to make: 2 minutes.
9. The Blue Dragon
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 85 milliliter ( 3 Oz ) of Vodka Mandarin
- 28 milliliter (1 Oz) of Blue Curacao
- Optional:
- 1 Slice of orange or 1 cherry.
How to make: Mix the vodka and the blue curacao with some crushed ice. Shake it up really well to get that mixed all together and then pour it into a glass of your choice. A martini glass is preferred. You can add a slice of orange on the side of the drink or a cherry in the middle. To make this stand out even more 2-3 drops of Grenadine,or any other red liqueur that you prefer, in the middle of the glass and you get a cool looking effect .
8. The Blue Lagoon
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 1 small cup of ice
- 21 milliliter (0.7 Oz) of Rum (preferred Vanilla)
- 21 milliliter (0.7 Oz) of Blue Curacao
- 85 milliliter (3 Oz) of Pineapple juice
- 11 milliliter (0.4 Oz) Grand Marnier
How to make: Place everything from the listen ingredients into a blender and mix it very well. A shaker can be used instead of a blender but the ice will need to be crushed first. After everything has been mixed pour this drink into a glass of your choice (a long glass is preferred with a wider top) and drink this with a straw. Any decoration that you think might seem fit can be added.
7. Moody Blue
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- Ice cube
- 35 milliliter (1.2 Oz) of Gin
- 35 milliliter (1.2 Oz) of Sweet Vermouth
- 70 milliliter (2.4 Oz) of Blue Curacao
- 10 milliliter (0.3 Oz) Orange juice
- Optional: 1 Sliced Orange
How to make: In a cocktail shaker put all of the ingredients and shake for a minute until everything is mixed together and you get a nice darker blue liquid form. Pour this drink into a glass of your choice. A Rocks/Whisky glass is preferred or you can go for the cocktail look and put it into a cocktail glass but if you choose to do this you will require more ingredients per serving. If you chose to put slices of orange, put one slice on top of your drink and let it soak into the drink for a few seconds and then eat it after drinking.
Time to make: 3 minutes.
6. X-Rated in the shower
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- Ice
- 28 milliliter (1 Oz) of Triple Sec
- 28 milliliter (1 Oz) of Blue Curacao
- 28 milliliter (1 Oz) of Schnapps (butterscotch for optimal results)
- 56 milliliter (2 Oz) of Orange juice
How to make: This drink is very simple to make but takes some time for the ingredients to mix together. Put everything into a shaker and pour into a champagne glass filled with a few cubes of ice. You should get a darker teal color of this drink or a lighter one depending on the curacao you put.
Time to make: 5 minutes.
5. Patriot shooter
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 9 milliliter (0.3 Oz) of Vodka
- 9 milliliter (0.3 Oz) of Blue Curacao
- 9 milliliter (0.3 Oz) of Grenadine
How to make: This drink needs some attention to detail and cannot be rushed if you want to achieve perfection. Pour the grenadine into a shot glass. Slowly pour blue curacao to create the blue layer in the glass and in the end slowly add the vodka to create the last layer. The layers can be mixed and with a little practice you can make this drink without even looking.
Time to make: 1 minute.
4. Shark Bite
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 42 milliliter (1.4 Oz) of Spiced rum (Captain Morgan’s)
- 21 milliliter (0.7 Oz) of Blue Curacao
- 86 milliliter (3 Oz) of Sour mix
- 5 milliliter (0.1 Oz) of Fresh lime juice
- 5-10 milliliter (0.1 to 0.3 Oz) of Grenadine (splash)
How to make: Fill a highball glass (a cocktail glass can be used if you prefer ) with ice , add the rum, blue curacao, sour and the lime juice. Stir everything and after the drink settles add the grenadine splash to add an amazing looking effect. Should be drank with straw. Enjoy.
Time to make: 3 minutes.
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 9 milliliter (0.3 Oz) of Blue curacao
- 9 milliliter (0.3 Oz) of Bailey’s Irish Cream
- 9 milliliter (0.3 Oz) of Coconut rum (Malibu)
How to make: Pour the blue curacao and the coconut rum into a shot glass and in the end add the Irish cream which will sink in the bottom. Wait a little and drink it for perfect taste results.
Time to make: 1 minute.
2. Blue Hawaii Cocktail
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 21 milliliter (0.7 Oz) of light rum
- 21 milliliter (0.7 Oz) of vodka
- 14 milliliter (0.5 Oz) of blue curacao
- 28 milliliter (1 Oz) of sweet and sour mix (already prepared)
- 85 milliliter (3 Oz) of pineapple juice
How to make: There are two ways you can make this drink. You can make it using ice or no ice. If you are using ice combine every ingredient into a blender and add the ice cubes and start the blending until the ice is nicely crushed and everything is combined, then pour it into a glass of your choice ( a martini glass can be used best or a tall glass ). If you decide that you do not want ice just pour all the ingredients into a cocktail glass or a tall glass and stir until everything is combined. Any type of garnish can be added for decoration purposes.
Optional: Add 1 – 2 drops of Grenadine to add a bloody effect to make it look a lot more interesting and add a pinch of sweetness.
Time to make: 3 minutes.
1. Alien Brain Hemorrhage
Ingredients you will need for one (1) serving:
- 19 milliliter (0.65 Oz) Peach Schnapps
- 14 milliliter (0.5 Oz) Bailey’s Irish Cream
- 1 splash (5 ml or 0.1 Oz) Blue Curacao
- 1 splash (5 ml or 0.1 Oz) Grenadine
How to make: When you are making this drink and any other cocktail you do not have to measure the ingredients exactly to the given specifics because they are given for the reason of simple guidelines for what your will need and how much of it. In a shot glass pour in the Peach Schnapps, after that put the Irish Cream so that it does not cover the top of the glass and has a little more room for the 2 remaining drinks. Add the splash of Blue Curacao to the shot and after that the splash of Grenadine. Do not stir this drink because you will lose the awesome looking effect you will get.
Time to make: 2 minutes
There are amazing ! Thank you very much
Nice cocktails… Shark bite is my favourite 😀
The ‘spiced rum (Captain Morgan’s)’ in the Shark Bite, is it the Gold or the Silver one?
28 Mocktails and non-alcoholic drinks to love
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Everybody’s a non-drinker sometimes. Whether you’re the designated driver, pregnant, dieting or just not a drinker at all, you can still enjoy delicious and gorgeous mocktails and non-alcoholic cocktails.
I’ve put together this list of mocktails, non-alcoholic mixed drinks and traditional cocktails that taste just as good with or without the alcohol. This list also helps hosts and hostesses provide their non-drinking guests with beverages that look and taste just as fun as alcohol-based cocktails. And if this list isn’t enough for you, maybe you need a book full of 100 Zero Proof Cocktails.
You can also spruce up mocktails by serving them beautifully.
- I’m crazy about these fringe cocktail umbrellas, which you can see in the first picture below. They have such a unique, tropical look compared to most of the others.
- Invest in a gorgeous set of glasses just for the non-drinkers, like these beautiful handmade Stained Glass Cocktail Glasses where no two are alike. Or these Golden Dot Crackle Glasses or Jubilance Painted Martini Glasses.
- Temporarily personalize your guests’ glasses with these beautiful, washable wine glass markers.
- Decorate glasses with these cute, funny Social Climber wine charms, which look like animals climbing up your glass.
Now for the recipes!
- Cuddles on the Beach. Three alternative recipes for a non-alcoholic version of Sex on the Beach.
- Mockmosa. A surprising alternative to the Mimosa, due to using sparkling white grape juice instead of sparkling apple cider.
- Nojito. A Mojito with all the flavor, but none of the rum.
- Hurricane Mocktail. This fruity cocktail tastes like the original Hurricane.
- Virgin Mary. Basically a Bloody Mary without the vodka, but with a really flavorful, savory recipe for the tomato base.
- Bella Bellini. The Bellini, but with sparkling white grape juice instead of champagne, and a couple of other tweaks.
Non-alcoholic cocktails and punches
- Blue Shoe. A MixThatDrink original featuring blue fruit punch and cranberry juice, because non-drinkers shouldn’t have to miss out on the fun of a blue, bubbly cocktail.
- Cherry Coketail. Coca Cola with cherry, vanilla and lime. Beats a Jack and Coke anytime.
- Gabbie’s Punch. This lightly sweet tropical fruit, ginger ale and lemonade punch goes down great at parties.
- Tomato Lassi. A yogurt and tomato based savory drink. Imagine a creamy tomato soup with a little bit of tang from the yogurt, and you get the idea.
- Coconut Lavender Lemonade. This periwinkle-blue drink features coconut water, lemon juice and a lavender syrup you make yourself.
- Limeade Punch. So easy to make. Frozen limeade concentrate, Sprite, with frozen raspberries and sliced limes.
- Strawberry Mango Mocktail Recipe. A beautiful layered mango and strawberry drink.
- Watermelon Cooler. Watermelon juice, mint and sparkling water.
- Milk and Cookies Cocktail. Great for kids or adults with a sweet tooth.
- Cranberry Cutie Mocktail. Sierra Mist, cranberry and clementine/Cutie juices. Light and refreshing.
- Thai Iced Tea. A Thai classic with tea and cream or coconut milk. This recipe also shows you how to pour it so you get a gorgeous layered effect.
- Ginger Cinnamon Apple Cider Fake ‘Tini. Has all the flavors in the name.
- Cranberry-Citrus Mocktail with Mint. Cranberry, orange lime, mint and sparkling water.
- Hot Buttered Spiced Cider. Apple cider with orange, lemon, spices and butter, served hot. Great soother for wintertime.
- Chocolate Mock-tini. Perfect for Christmastime, but great all year round. Chocolate milk and mint chocolate chip ice cream.
- Blackberry Vanilla Mocktail. Blackberry, vanilla, lemon, honey and bubbles. Tasty, lightly sweet, with a lovely contrast between the tart blackberry and the mild vanilla.
Just leave/swap out the alcohol
Some popular drink recipes taste just great without the alcohol, or just need a single ingredient swap to be non-alcoholic.
- Sea Breeze. This classic combines vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juice, so it has all the flavor with none of the vodka.
- Raspberry-Lime Rickey. Just drop the raspberry vodka and maybe add a touch more raspberry syrup.
- Luscious Lou. Drop the orange vodka and Cointreau, and increase the orange juice.
- Piña Colada. You probably already know a Piña Colada tastes as good without the alcohol as it does with. Just leave out the rum, and you’re good to go.
- Strawberry-Banana Margarita. Tastes wonderful without the tequila and triple sec. But you can replace the triple sec with orange juice if you like.
- Poinsettia. Just replace the champagne with dry sparkling white grape juice or ginger ale, and the Cointreau with a touch of orange juice.
The Past, Present, and Future of Blue Cocktails
Pondering the history and future of blue drinks.
Blue is the new black. Just ask any bartender and they’ll give you an earful about blue drinks, from the Aviation and the Blue Hawaii — among the earliest blue-hued cocktails — to New York newbie Porchlight's Gun Metal Blue, the most-Instagrammed colored cocktail of the moment.
A vast majority of these ocean-blue drinks take their color from blue Curaçao, an orange liqueur dyed blue with food coloring. Despite the rising trend to celebrate #bluedranks and their place in the backlash against the baroque, privately most bartenders will confide: blue Curaçao sucks. But that doesn’t stop them from using it. And, quite a few are finding ways to blue out drinks in other ways, providing telling signposts about what the wide blue yonder may hold for these cocktails.
The History of Blue Drinks
Jacob Briars, global brand ambassador for Bacardi, has become the patron saint for blue drinks since 2007 when he created the Corpse Reviver Number Blue for a cocktail competition in Queenstown, New Zealand. According to Briars, the original blue drink craze dates back to Victorian England, circa 1850, when an affinity for artificial colors — particularly royal purple — extended from articles of clothing to edibles. "Blue was created out of coal tar," Briars explains, "not particularly pleasant and not good for you."
While the French had perfected the art of the cordial — think complex, proprietary "secret formulas" like Benedictine and Cointreau — in the 19th century, the Dutch unleashed generic flavors like crème de bananes, crème de menthe and crème de ciel, aka blue Curaçao , made with oranges from the then Dutch-owned island of Curaçao in the southern Caribbean sea . By the 1890s, liqueurs, including blue Curaçao and "a whole rainbow of liqueurs" from Europe, had made their way to America, becoming a full-fledged craze on both sides of the Atlantic.
By the 1890s, liqueurs — including blue Curaçao and "a whole rainbow of liqueurs" from Europe — had made their way to America, becoming a full-fledged craze on both sides of the Atlantic.
Although Prohibition (1920-1933) tamped down access to most liquors and liqueurs for Americans, Europe had no such restrictions. Briars recalls a Brisbane newspaper article he uncovered in his research which noted briefly that blue drinks were "all the rage in Europe." Marvels Briars, "it was so common, that people casually remarked on them as if they were a trend — no one wrote down the recipes!"
Blue Drinks Through the Years
The pre-Prohibition drink known as the Aviation has been enjoying a modern-day comeback for some years now at revered cocktail dens like Pegu Club in New York and Weegee's Lounge in Chicago. Cocktail historian David Wondrich tracks one key version to bartender Hugo Esslin, who published his Aviation recipe in the 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks. The recipe called for one critical ingredient: crème de violette, a violet-flavored liqueur that tints the drink a pale sky blueish purple, in addition to gin, lemon juice and Maraschino liqueur. However, Briars notes that crème de ciel was imported to the U.S. around the early 20th century, and speculates that it may have been used in making the Aviation: "It’s a more natural fit than crème de violette."
Aviation, Blue Moon
Wondrich’s updated edition of Imbibe! also flags this lesser-known blue drink, the Blue Moon, from the same era, served at Joel’s, a Times Square, New York-area bar and cabaret open from 1900 to 1925. This cocktail was "some kind of blue and rather strong," Wondrich notes, made with gin, French vermouth, orange bitters and Crème Yvette, then strained and topped with Claret.
Early tiki tomes don’t skew blue, and the 1947 Trader Vic’s book doesn’t even mention blue Curaçao. But things changed in 1957 when Bols sales reps attending a liquor convention in Hawaii asked bartenders there to create new drinks that featured their blue Curaçao liqueur, which they were trying to break in America. Harry Yee, legendary head bartender at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki, created the Blue Hawaii, a blue piña colada of sorts. (He also gets credit for popularizing tiny umbrellas in drinks.) In 1961, Elvis Presley released Blue Hawaii, setting off a fresh wave of enthusiasm for faux-island culture, and the drink that shared its name with the film, too.
In the decades that followed, blue drinks languished in the netherland of tiki-tacky. Most people associated "blue" with sweet rum drinks. You could order them on vacation, but that was about it. And when cocktail culture revived in the early aughts as gin-soaked speakeasies, blue drinks were banished from most cocktail menus.
Blue Drinks Today
Of course, there are always exceptions. UK bartending legend Dick Bradsell — known for creating the espresso martini that spawned a thousand imitations, among other drinks —c reated the Bikini Martini (gin, peach schnapps, blue Curaçao , lemon) in 1999 for an Agent Provocateur swimsuit launch.
"At the height of the era where you could not make a blue drink if you wanted to be seen as a serious bartender, I created the Corpse Reviver Number Blue," Briars recalls. A blued-out riff on the classic Corpse Reviver No. 2 (made with London Dry gin, Lillet, blue Curaçao, lemon juice and absinthe, usually served in a martini glass), in part, this drink was made in reaction to a Facebook group called "A Jihad On All Blue Drinks."
However, Briars admits that thanks to Facebook circa 2007, the blue drink took on a life of its own, as wide-traveling brand ambassadors ordered or made blue drinks with abandon — and irony — and gleefully tagged Briars as they posted blue drink photos.
"There were usually eight a day, and hundreds across the world," he recalls. "The rise of Facebook certainly helped fuel the rise of blue drinks." The tradition still lives on via Instagram. But this was the drink that helped bring back the blues.
"The rise of Facebook certainly helped fuel the rise of blue drinks." - Jacob Briars
The modern-day blue drink, Gun Metal Blue, is featured on the menu at New York’s Southern-themed Porchlight, restaurateur Danny Meyer’s first cocktail bar, which opened in March 2015. The libation, designed by head bartender Nick Bennett, incorporates mezcal, peach brandy, cinnamon syrup and blue Curaçao.
And it’s certainly not the only blue drink on high-end menus right now. Also in New York,
PDT is serving the Shark, a tiki-ish mix of butter-infused rum, pineapple juice, Frangelico and blue Curaçao, topped with a tiny umbrella; and new Thai addition Kiin Thai Eatery is pushing Koh Paradise, which is like the Long Island Iced Tea of blue drinks, with vodka, rum, tequila, blue Curaçao, lime and ginger ale.
Porchlight's Gun Metal Blue by Nick Bennett.
Out in San Francisco, Dirty Habit has Son of the Beach, a fino sherry drink that incorporates gin and blue Curaçao. But Gun Metal Blue seems to be the face of its generation, sweeping the blue drink back into the spotlight. So what’s next for blue drinks? A whole new Crayola range of color, from cerulean to deepest azure. And none of it involves Curaçao.
A number of products can add a natural blue tint, Briars notes, such as purple carrots soaked in sugar or butterfly pea flower, which bitters-maker Letherbee previously experimented with to make a blue Curaçao variation (it’s not on the market at this time). However, Briars cautions, "citrus wreaks havoc on any of these drinks," turning the color to dull purple at best.
At Gracias Madre in West Hollywood, California, beverage director Jason Eisner focuses on making drinks that are 100 percent organic, which leaves Curaçao out in the cold. Instead, for his Three Miracles cocktail, he uses St. George Absinthe verte mixed with "just a drop" of green chlorophyll, frozen with water into ice spheres for an opalescent light-turquoise effect. As it melts into the mezcal-based cocktail, the drink takes on "a slightly blue quality," Eisner says, and creates a "theatrical" effect.
Gracias Madre's Three Miracles by Jason Eisner.
At Quattro Restaurant within Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley in East Palo Alto, California, bartender Adam Chick calls on blueberry schnapps to impart a bluish hue. The gin-based Purple Rain is also goosed with Parfait Amour, aka Crème Yvette, while the Silicon Sky is vodka-based, rounded out with lemon, lemongrass syrup and a wine float, rendering it "similar to a deconstructed sangria."
The Future of Blue
Micah Melton, beverage director at Chicago’s experimental drinking den The Aviary, also has been riffing on the "cheesy" blue drink trend, using butterfly pea flowers sourced from Rare Tea Cellars. "The petals are crazy unbelievable blue," Melton says. Given maximum steep time, it becomes a "terrifying" deep purple-violet hue that seems like it should be "unnatural" for an edible product, he continues. Unlike previous experiments with the pea flower, which were hampered by the instability of the color once citrus was added, Melton is embracing that aspect. Guests will get the surprise of a blue gin drink steeped with spices and citrus peel that will turn pink as lemon juice is added (a violet-hued dessert at Alinea undergoes a similar transformation). At this point, the cocktail is unnamed and many of the details are subject to change. But one feature remains firm: it will be blue.
All cocktails crafted at Porchlight (except for Gracias Madre's Three Miracles) by Nick Bennett.
Red-White-and-Blue Cocktails
Directions
Turn summer drinks into firecrackers by coating the glass rims with Pop Rocks. Just dampen with lemon juice, then dip the rims in the candies on a plate. To get the red-white-and-blue effect, use Tropical Punch (blue) Pop Rocks, then fill the glasses with any red drink or cocktail; we mixed pomegranate and cranberry juice with seltzer.
Photograph by Levi Brown
Recipe courtesy of Food Network Magazine
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