Top 5 New Year’s Eve Cocktail Ideas
Cinnamon Cherry Fizz
Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz Red Eye Louie’s Immoral Spiced Rum
- 1 tbsp tart cherry concentrate (or 2 tbsp cherry juice)
- Lemon-lime soda
- Maraschino cherries or lemon wedges (optional)
Instructions
- Add Immoral Spiced Rum and cherry juice to a 10–12 oz glass. Fill ¾ with ice.
- Top with lemon-lime soda and stir gently.
- Garnish with lemon wedges and cherries if desired.
Champagne Punch
Yields: 8–10 servings
Ingredients
- 4 cups white-cranberry–strawberry juice
- ½ cup Red Eye Louie’s VodQuila
- ½ cup orange liqueur (triple sec)
- 1 blood orange
- 4 cups ice
- ½ cup frozen cranberries
- 1 cup halved strawberries
- 1 (750 mL) bottle white sparkling wine
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix the juice, VodQuila, and orange liqueur. (This base can be refrigerated up to 24 hours.)
- Cut the blood orange in half. Juice one half into the punch bowl, then thinly slice the other half.
- Add ice, cranberries, strawberries, and orange slices.
- Just before serving, slowly pour in sparkling wine.
Tip: If you can’t find white cranberry–strawberry juice, use white cranberry juice.
The Full Moontini (Midnight Toast)
Ingredients
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2 oz Red Eye Louie’s Immoral Gin
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½ tsp activated charcoal powder
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4 oz pineapple juice
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1 oz lime juice
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1 oz club soda
Instructions
- To make black gin (optional): Infuse Immoral Gin with activated charcoal—either shake a small jar of gin with a pinch of charcoal, or infuse a full bottle with 1 tbsp.
- Prepare ice spheres and chill serving glasses.
- When ready to serve, shake black gin, pineapple juice, and lime juice with ice.
- Strain into chilled glasses.
- Add an ice sphere and top with a splash of club soda.
Lavender Lemon Drop
Ingredients
- 2 oz Red Eye Louie’s VodQuila
- 1 oz lavender syrup
- 1 oz fresh lemon juice
- ¼ oz orange liqueur
- 2 dashes lavender bitters
- Purple sanding sugar (for rimming)
- Lemon twist + lavender sprig (for garnish)
Instructions
- Spread purple sanding sugar on a plate. Rub rim of a martini glass with lemon, then dip to coat.
- Fill shaker with ice and add VodQuila, lavender syrup, lemon juice, orange liqueur, and bitters.
- Shake until very cold and frosty.
- Strain into the prepared martini glass.
- Garnish with a lemon twist and lavender sprig.
Pomegranate Martini
Ingredients
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2 oz Red Eye Louie’s Immoral Vodka
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1.5 oz pomegranate juice
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1 oz Cointreau
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Juice of ½ lime
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Garnish: rosemary sprig + pomegranate seeds
Instructions
- Add vodka, pomegranate juice, Cointreau, and lime juice to a shaker with ice.
- Shake well until very cold.
- Strain into your preferred glass.
- Garnish with rosemary and pomegranate seeds.
Ginger Jungle Bird
Yields: 6 servings
Ingredients
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6 oz Red Eye Louie’s RumQuila
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12 oz pineapple juice
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1.5 oz lime juice
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1.5 oz Campari
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1.5 oz simple syrup
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9–12 oz ginger beer
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6–9 ice cubes
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Fresh pineapple wedges + leaves (optional garnish)
Instructions
- Combine RumQuila, pineapple juice, lime juice, Campari, and simple syrup in a punch bowl or pitcher with ice.
- Stir or shake until chilled and frosty.
- Ladle or pour into 6 champagne flutes or coupe glasses.
- Top each glass with 1–2 oz ginger beer.
- Garnish with pineapple wedges and leaves.

