Six Original Recipes from How to Drink!

A Toast to the Parks: Six Original Cocktail Recipes
featuring Yellowstone Select Kentucky Bourbon

In partnership with Yellowstone Select Kentucky Bourbon, How to Drink crafted six original cocktails, each one an ode to one of the US National Parks, and each one featuring Yellowstone Select Kentucky Bourbon, which is shipping free via Curiada for a limited time. Enjoy!

Yellowstone Old Faithful
Yosemite Old-Fashioned
Grand Canyon Total Cloud Inversion
Acadia Hot Buttered Bourbon
The Great Smokey (Mountains)
Mammoth Cave Star Chamber

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Yellowstone Old Faithful

Ingredients

2 oz Huckleberry Syrup
2 oz Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Half a lemon
Leaves from 1 sprig of fresh mint

Method

Add all ingredients to a shaker, lightly muddle.  Add ice and shake. Add crushed ice to prepared glass. Double strain drink into the glass, garnish with fresh mint and sprigs of lavender. 

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Yosemite Old Fashioned

Ingredients

.25 oz pecan syrup
2 oz Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon
2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Method

Add all ingredients to a rocks glass. Add large ice cube and stir. Garnish with orange twist and cedar sprig. 

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Grand Canyon Total Cloud Inversion 

Ingredients

.25 oz. simple syrup
.25 oz. Ancho Chile Reyes Liqueur
2 oz Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Method

Add all ingredients to a rocks glass. Smoke cocktail with cherry wood chips. Garnish with fresh cherries.

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Acadia Hot Buttered Bourbon

Ingredients

1 oz Butter Batter*
2 oz Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon
3 oz how water

Method

Prepare the Butter Batter.  Still all ingredients together in a mug until incorporated. Garnish with a twist of orange.

*Butter Batter

1 cup unsalted butter
.5 cup brown sugar
.5 cup maple syrup 
1 broken cinnamon stick
.5 teaspoon grated nutmeg
5 allspice berries
3 cloves

Heat all ingredients together until the sugar and butter melts, then reduce to a low simmer for 3 minutes. Strain into a bottle and let cool.

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The Great Smokey (Mountains)

Ingredients

1 oz Dolin Blanc Vermouth
2 oz Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon
2 dashes of celery bitters

Method

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass. Stir with ice. Smoke with oak and cedar. Strain into glass. Garnish with a sprig of something outdoorsy (Cedar or Rosemary)

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Mammoth Cave Star Chamber

Ingredients

.5 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz Mr Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur
2 oz Yellowstone Select Kentucky Straight Bourbon
1 egg white

Method

Add all ingredients to the shaker.  Dry shake. Add ice and shake again. Add .25 oz coffee liqueur to bottom of glass for effect.  Strain drink into chilled glass.