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6 Festive Winter Cocktails

Viral Halloween Inspired Cocktails
Maryland Style Cocktails

Spiked Apple Cider

Ingredients:

  • 1 gallon premade apple cider
  • Cinnamon sticks
  • Cloves
  • Nutmeg
  • Red Eye Louie’s WhisQuila

Instructions:

  1. Warm apple cider in a pot with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg — do not boil.
  2. Add 2 oz WhisQuila to a mug and top with hot cider.
  3. Stir with a cinnamon stick and leave stick in the glass.

Tasting Notes:
Sweet and comforting with mulled spice aromas. Apple’s natural tartness pairs beautifully with the whiskey-like character of WhisQuila.

Maryland Style Cocktails

Bloody Maria

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Red Eye Louie’s VodQuila
  • 1 tsp horseradish
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard (optional)
  • 3 dashes hot sauce
  • 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
  • 3 dashes celery salt
  • 3 dashes black pepper
  • 1 dash lime juice
  • 4–6 oz tomato juice
  • Garnish: lime wedge, celery stalk

Instructions:

  1. Add VodQuila, horseradish, Dijon, hot sauce, Worcestershire, celery salt, pepper, and lime juice to a tall glass; stir well.
  2. Add tomato juice and mix by rolling back and forth between glasses or stir vigorously.
  3. Add ice and stir again.
  4. Garnish with lime and celery.
  5. Optional: Rim the glass with salt/chilli powder mixture if you like before filling the glass.
    Maryland Style Cocktails

    Cocoa Old Fashioned

    Ingredients:

    • 1 (750ml) bottle Red Eye Louie’s WhisQuila
    • ¼ cup cacao nibs
    • For the Cocktail:
    • 2 maraschino cherries (divided)
    • 1 orange slice (cut in half)
    • ½ oz demerara syrup
    • 3 dashes mole bitters
    • 2½ oz chocolate-infused WhisQuila

    Instructions:

    1. Infuse: Add cacao nibs to a jar, pour in WhisQuila, shake, and infuse 3 days or until balanced. Strain and rebottle.
    2. Make the cocktail: Add one cherry, half orange slice, demerara syrup, and bitters to an old-fashioned glass. Muddle.
    3. Fill glass with ice and add infused WhisQuila.
    4. Stir lightly.
    5. Garnish with remaining cherry, orange slice, and optional orange zest.
    Maryland Style Cocktails

    Cinnamon White Russian

    Ingredients:

    • 2 oz Red Eye Louie’s VodQuila
    • 1 oz coffee liqueur
    • 1 oz heavy cream, half-and-half, or milk of choice
    • ½ oz cinnamon syrup
    • Cinnamon sugar for rim

    Instructions:

    • Rim a rocks glass in cinnamon sugar using syrup or water.

    • In a shaker with ice, combine VodQuila, coffee liqueur, cream, and cinnamon syrup.

    • Shake vigorously.

    • Strain into the prepared glass and serve.

    Maryland Style Cocktails

    Nightmare on WhisQuila Street

    Ingredients:

    • Cinnamon sugar, for rim (optional)
    • 1 ½ oz Red Eye Louie’s WhisQuila
    • 1 oz fresh lemon juice
    • ¼ cup apple cider
    • 1–2 tsp real maple syrup (to taste)
    • 1 tsp fresh grated ginger (or ¼ tsp ground ginger)
    • ⅛ tsp ground cinnamon
    • 5 oz sparkling hard Honeycrisp apple cider
    • Cinnamon sticks, rosemary, and apple slices (for garnish)

    Instructions:

    1. Rim a cocktail glass with cinnamon sugar and fill with ice.
    2. In a cocktail shaker, combine WhisQuila, lemon juice, apple cider, maple syrup, ginger, and cinnamon. Shake to combine.
    3. Strain into the prepared glass and top with sparkling hard cider.
    4. Garnish with cinnamon sticks, rosemary, and apple slices.