Ah, the pumpkin pie and sweet potato casserole that you usually bring to the family holiday feast. Tried, true, and maybe just a teeny bit dated.
This year, mix it up, and try your hand at a fall themed cocktail! We’ve got some serious fruit, spice, and everything nice inspiration from the city that has beer and cocktails in it’s bloodline – Portland!
Here are our top 5 restaurants and bars in Portland, featuring some of the country’s best bar chefs and talented mixologists.
We start with:
Teardrop Lounge
The Skinny: It’s like stepping inside a stadium where the main attraction is the cocktail!
Get up close and intimate with your drink and how it’s made at Teardrop. Award winning mixologist and proprietor Daniel Shoemaker heads up the team of talent here at this swank downtown location.
Twenty-Three Skidoo
Build in a chilled bucket (aka mixer)
- 1 tsp. rich demerera (2 parts demerera sugar to 1 part boiling water, stir well until dissolved)
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- 1 dash Regan’s orange bitters
- 1/4 oz. cherry digestif
Stir to incorporate, add one large cube, add 2 oz. High West double rye whiskey. Stir for 20 seconds. Garnish with an orange peel.
The Venue: Circa 33
The Ontario Cocktail
- 1.5 oz Jim Beam Rye
- .5 oz Calisaya
- .5 oz simple syrup
- 2 dashes Peychauds bitters
Served on the rocks with an orange twist.
The Venue: Sapphire Hotel
You’re Not My Real Dad
- 2oz whiskey
- 1/2 oz scotch syrup (made in house)
- 1/2 oz Punt e Mes
- 1 dash Orange Bitters
- 2 dashes Cedar Bitters (made in house)
Stir & strain into a scotch spritzed bucket with one large ice cube. Garnished with a cigarette (seriously).
The Venue: Beaker and Flask
The Jack Horner, from barman Douglas Strodtman
- 1.5 lairds bonded
- 1.5 plum cardamom syrup ( made in house from locally farmed plum)
- 1/3 lemon
- a dash of old fashioned
- ginger beer
No instructions came with this drink. Mix at your own risk. Fair warning: DO NOT SHAKE THE GINGER BEER.
The Venue: East Burn
Here’s a little something you can sip on for fall courtesy of Jopa, and the crew at East Burn.
Bourbon Cherry Buck, by Jopa Corvus
- 1.5oz bulleit bourbon
- .5 oz Benedictine
- .5 oz lemon juice
- .5 oz black cherry concentrate
Shake it all together. Top with ginger beer.
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