Batched Cocktails for Holiday Parties

Batched Cocktails for Holiday Parties

It’s the holiday season and we’re thinking about cocktails that you can make once and satisfy many. In the restaurant industry, recipes that produce multiple cocktails are referred to as “batched”. In addition to being delicious, batched cocktails are also time saving and who doesn’t love that?

Salt and the Nightjar

Salt and the Nightjar

Does it ever strike you as odd when a dessert calls for salt? The amazing thing about this naturally occurring mineral is that it brings out all kinds of subtleties that we’d otherwise lose amongst more overpowering flavors. Such is the case with cocktails. Salting a cocktail helps brighten citrus and acts as a bridge between spirits and the more subtle non-alcoholic ingredients mixed with it. With that in mind, I give you one of Orasella’s first salted cocktails. Cheers, friends, and a very happy New Year.

Nostalgia in a glass

Nostalgia in a glass

Cherry coke brings about memories of childhood, hot summer days and playing Marco Polo with the 6 new friends you just met at the community pool. This evolved version gives the classic cherry coke just enough of an upgrade to have you pining for the grown up version of the same scenario, hot summer days around a fire pit swapping stories with six of your best friends. Cheers to the onset of warmer weather.

Holiday Spritz

Holiday Spritz

This cocktail is one of a handful on Orasella’s website that was constructed by our co-founder, Anne SanGiovanni. It’s pure nostalgia, inspired by a holiday punch popular during the 1980’s.

Unlike its predecessor, this version is light, not too sweet and infinitely adjustable to please all your holiday guests. Cocktail or mocktail, large or small batch, it’s up to you. Make a big batch of the cranberry citrus base before everyone comes over and you’ll have time to enjoy friends and family while foregoing work. Happy holidays, friends.

Midnight City

Midnight City

Seattle has a reputation for enjoying coffee. Those of us who live here put it in nearly everything - ice cream, chocolate, and, of course, our cocktails.

Coffee is an exceptional pair to some of the deeper spirits. And this cocktail, which pairs coffee with amaro and rum, is one of my favorites bartender, Damon Dhanens, has created for Orasella. I am sure you will enjoy it as well. Cheers!