10 CRAZY-GOOD COCKTAIL STORMS

There are many different kinds of storms in our universe. Good thing there are many different storm cocktails to sip as we await impending storms, attempt calm in the midst of current storms, and recover after storms that have passed. Here are 10 we love.

 

This cloudy tempest, called the Storm Cloud, by mixologist Tyler Wang of Tony Maws' new restaurant The Kirkland Tap & Trotter in Somerville, Massachusetts, is like a Category 5 Seabreeze.

 

It takes the breezy pink grapefruit juice base and kicks it up a few notches with some exotic splashes of darkly bitter Fernet Branca, a liqueur made of aloe, rhubarb, gentian, galangal, chamomile, saffron, myrrh and elderflower. And then it counterbalances with a swirl Cocchi Americano, an herbaceous white aperitif wine, and a touch of simple syrup. And for a dash of seaspray, a sprinkle of sea salt tops it all off.

 

THE STORM CLOUD

by Tyler Wang, Kirkland, Tap, & Trotter

 

Ingredients:

 

• 1 1/2 ounce Cocchi Americano

• 1/2 ounce Fernet Branca

• 1 ounce fresh juice from 1 pink grapefruit

• 3 ounces chilled club soda

• Grapefruit twist and kosher salt for garnish
   

Instructions:
 

• Add Cocchi Americano, Fernet Branca, grapefruit juice, and simple syrup to cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake until chilled, about 10 seconds. Strain into an ice-filled Collins glass.

• Top with soda and stir gently to incorporate. Garnish with a long grapefruit swath and a pinch of kosher salt on the top of the ice cube.

Photo: Courtesy of Storm in a Teacup. Storm Cocktail.

The Storm Cocktail from Storm in a Teacup plays up the cloudy nature of storms by mixing together some wild ingredients: El Jimador Resposado, Domain De Canton, Green Chartreuse, chilli, ginger and, because after all they are Storm in a Teacup, Sejak green tea. It’s citrusy, spicy, and sweet. The Teacup garnishes their Storm with a tiny fish cut out of a slice of fresh ginger.

Photo: Courtesy of Sailor Jerry Rum. The Perfect Storm.

Now, with autumn dosing us with colder, harder rains and winds, we like to get fortified with the warm homespun flavors of a Perfect Storm Cocktail. It’s like a classic Dark N’ Stormy, with an extra comforter.

 

PERFECT STORM COCKTAIL
 

Ingredients:
 

• 2 oz Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

• Splash of fresh lime juice

• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters

• Ginger beer
   

Instructions:
 

Add all the ingredients, except ginger beer, to a highball or rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lime wedge. Top with ginger beer.

Photo: Courtesy of Monica. Monica’s Irish Coffee.

 

Winter Storm Nemo, a mega-blizzard that dumped over New England this past winter, inspired a hot cocktail.

 

Michardman, of the Ace Weekly, out of Lexington, KY, paid homage as Nemo headed in his direction, by rallying a winter storm drinking game around a steaming cup of sweet jazz. Hell, if you’re snowed in anyway… You might call it Irish Coffee, but he calls it The Blinding Nemo.

 

THE BLINDING NEMO

 

Get out your thermos and add:
 

• 3 parts coffee

• 1 part Irish Whiskey

• 1 part heavy whipping cream

• Brown sugar to taste
   

Machardman just stirs and serves. But we like to whip that cream, with hurricane force, and float it on top like a post-storm cumulous cloud.

Photo: Courtesy of Cinco. Cinco’s Summer Storm Cocktail.

The Summer Storm Cocktail is based off the Dark and Stormy. We adapted a great recipe from Cinco bartender and co-owner, Ben Molina. Our version is brightened with fresh raspberry puree vs syrup so it’s barely sweet. But add sugar if you must.
 

SUMMER STORM COCKTAIL

Adapted from Cinco

 

Ingredients:
 

• 2oz. rum (Cinco uses Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum)

• 1/2 oz fresh raspberry puree (strained)

• 3/4 oz lime juice

• 3 oz ginger beer
   

Instructions:
 

Add rum, puree, and lime juice to shaker and shake. Add ginger beer and pour over ice. Garnish with mint sprig.
 

Photo: Jennifer May. Bon Appetit Tropical Storm cocktail.

 

It’s kind of odd, in an optimistic kind of way, that Tropical Storm Cocktails are so full of sunny color and cheer. This orange beauty is bursting with pineapple and orange juices, white and dark rums, and a splash of Campari to give it a sunset vibe.
 

TROPICAL STORM
 

Ingredients:
 

• 2 cups fresh pineapple juice

• 2 cups orange juice

• 1 cup white rum

• 3/4 cup high-proof dark rum

• 3 tablespoons Campari

• Orange wedges and maraschino cherries, for garnish
   

Instructions:
 

• Mix ingredients in a pitcher. Cover; chill for 4–12 hours.

• Divide among ice-filled glasses. Garnish with orange wedges and maraschino cherries.

Photo: Courtesy of Supreme Plate. Quiet Storm Cocktail.

This year’s annual Googa Mooga festival in Brooklyn may have been a bit on the soggy side, thanks to a rainstorm, but a gathering force of premier NYC mixologists made sure we didn’t mind. One calming remedy was the Quiet Storm Cocktail. Chilled Magazine shared the recipe.
 

QUIET STORM
 

Ingredients:
 

• 1 ounce Bulleit Bourbon

• ¾ ounce lemon juice

• 1 ounce extra dry vermouth

• ¼ ounce simple syrup

• Top with ginger beer
   

Preparation:
 

• Combine all ingredients into a mixing tin

• Strain contents into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice.

• Garnish with 1 mint sprig and lemon

Photo: Courtesy of 4 Manchester Women. Any Port in the Storm cocktail.

And then, of course there’s the port in the storm, where we can take refuge and find some sweet comfort. For the weather weary, there’s always Any Port in the Storm. And, there’s a cocktail for that! The Proof Bar won best cocktail in Manchester, UK with this one.

 

ANY PORT IN THE STORM COCKTAIL

 

Ingredients:

 

• 1 inch of fresh ginger (chopped),

• 5 ml fresh lime juice,

• bar spoon of fine Demerara sugar,

• 25ml Lamb’s Navy Rum,

• 25ml Taylor’s Late Bottle Vintage Port and

• 12.5ml Domain de Canton Ginger Liqueur.

• Fresh lime wedge, ginger root peel
   

Instructions:
 

• Muddle the ginger, lime juice, and sugar together in an Old Fashioned glass.

• Add the rum, port and liqueur.

• Fill glass with crushed ice. Garnish with a ginger root peel wrapped around a lime wedge, pierced with a cocktail sword. Proof adds a Union Jack cocktail flag for good measure.

Image: Courtesy of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen. Frozen Blackberry Slurricane.

After you’ve had one too many Hurricanes, it might be time for a Frozen Blackberry Slurricane. We found this wonderful recipe in Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , by Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry. It’s all passion and light, in a beautiful murky kind of way.

 

Ingredients:

 

• 1/4 cup dark rum

• 1/4 cup light rum

• 1/2 cup passion fruit juice

• 1/4 cup orange-pineapple-banana juice

• 1/4 fresh lemon juice

• 1/2 cup frozen blackberries

• 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup

• 8 to 10 ice cubes
   

Instructions:

 

In a blender, combine all the ingredients and blend until smooth.

Photo: Courtesy of Cocktail Chem. After the Storm Cocktail

And when you can finally say, “whew!” you might want to reach for an After the Storm Cocktail, created by Jordan Devereaux . It’s icy slush to remind you of what you’ve just been through, and it’s sweet, tart, fruity, and floral, to remind you that life has some better weather ahead.

 

AFTER THE STORM

by Jordan Devereaux

 

Ingredients:

 

• 2 oz Barbados rum

• 0.75 oz lime juice

• 0.25 oz passion fruit syrup

• 0.25 oz raspberry syrup

• 0.25 oz vanilla syrup
   

Instructions:

 

Combine all ingredients, add a large handful of crushed ice, blend for five seconds, then pour unstrained into a chilled rocks glass.

Photo: Courtesy of Amazon. Rabbit brand Cyclone Cocktail Mixer.

And, just so you are well prepared for the next storm onslaught, tool up with The Cyclone Cocktail Mixer. Good thing it works on batteries!

 

Read about Beautiful Storms all this week, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including True Powerful Storm Stories, and New Ways to Predict Storms.

 

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