Recipes

CLUTCH COFFEE LIQUEUR (Regular & Decaf)

Clutchtini

Ingredients:

  • Ice
  • 2 oz Clutch Coffee Liqueur (Regular or Decaf)
  • 3 oz Espresso (Regular or Decaf)
  • 1/2 oz of Irish cream 

Start by making your espresso and allow it to cool while you prepare the other ingredients for your drink. Take a cocktail shaker and fill it with ice. Then add your 2 oz of Clutch Coffee Liqueur, 1 oz of Irish cream and ½ oz of simple syrup if you desire a bit of sweetness. By now your espresso has cooled off and can also be added in. Close the shaker and shake well for about 20-25 seconds. Once the shaker feels cold to the touch you can pour through a strainer into a martini glass. Feel free to garnish with a coffee bean or some shaved dark chocolate sprinkled on top. 

Distiller’s Clutch

Ingredients:

  • Ice
  • 1 oz Clutch Coffee Liqueur (regular or decaf)
  • 1 oz Headlight Vodka
  • Top off with a splash of half and half or cream

Fill an old fashioned glass with ice. Add Clutch & Headlight, top off with half and half. Enjoy!

Ignitor Coffee

Ingredients:

  • Ice
  • 2 oz Headlight Vodka
  • 1 oz Clutch Coffee Liqueur (Regular or Decaf)

Add ice, Headlight Vodka and Clutch Coffee Liqueur into a shaker. Shake well. Fill an old fashioned glass with ice. Add the contents of the shaker into the glass. Enjoy!

 

*Some of our other favorite ways to enjoy either regular or decaf Clutch Coffee Liqueur are:

- a shot in hot chocolate

- poured over butterscotch or chocolate ice cream 

-add it to your latte for an extra kick to get your day going.

 

TORQUE APPLE LIQUEUR

Apple Spice Mojito Pitcher

Ingredients (Serves 4)

  • 1 cup of Torque Apple Liqueur
  • ½ cup of lemon juice
  • 2 ½ cups of apple cider
  • club soda 
  • Mint 
  • Cinnamon sticks
  • Lemon slices
  • Apple slices
  • Star anise
  • ice

This is a great recipe when having company. In a pitcher pour in your Torque Apple liqueur, lemon juice and apple cider. Add some mint leaves, the apple slices, lemon slices and star anise to your pitcher while you gently stir. Take about 4 glasses and fill them up with ice and pour your Apple Spice Mojito into the glasses. Garnish with a sprig of mint, apple slices and a cinnamon stick.

Apple Crisp Torque

Ingredients

  • 2 oz of Torque Apple Liqueur
  • 3 oz prosecco
  • 1 oz club soda 
  • Green and red apple slices
  • Lemon
  • Mint
  • ice

A quick and easy drink that is so light and refreshing you will want more than one. Fill a glass with half ice. Begin by pouring your Torque Apple Liqueur, then your cold prosecco and cold club soda to top it off. Garnish with some apple slices, lemon and mint for that crisp, refreshing look. This will be an easy go-to drink and you will want to make sure you always have some Torque Apple Liqueur  on hand, especially for those nice sunny days. 

 

*Torque Apple Liqueur is a great drink all on its own. Here are a few other ways to enjoy it:

-warm a glass of Torque Apple Liqueur over a glass of hot water and sip it warm (try adding a sprinkle of cinnamon on it)

-pour a shot over vanilla ice cream

-add a shot to a cup of warm apple cider.

SPARK BASIL VODKA

Spark Bloody Mary

Ingredients (serves 2):

    • Ice
    • 3 ounces Spark Basil Vodka
    • 1 1 ⁄4 cups tomato or V8 juice
    • Juice of 1 lemon wedge
    • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
    • 1 teaspoon Tabasco Sauce
    • Pinch black pepper
    • Celery for garnish

In a pitcher, combine Spark Basil Vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcester sauce, Tabasco Sauce, horseradish and pepper. Pour into glasses filled with ice, and garnish with a stalk of celery, pickle, lemon or whatever else tickles your fancy. Enjoy!

Classic Spark Gimlet

Ingredients:

  • Ice 
  • 2 oz Spark Basil Vodka 
  • ½ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • ½ oz simple syrup

Add Spark Basil Vodka, lime juice, simple syrup and ice to a cocktail shaker. Shake. Pour into a cocktail glass. Enjoy!

“Spark”ling Lemonade

Ingredients:

  • Ice
  • 8 oz Spark Basil Vodka
  • 32 oz lemonade
  • 16 oz soda water
  • Sliced lemons for garnish
  • Sugar, for glass rims

 

Add ice to a large pitcher. Add Spark Basil Vodka, lemonade and soda water. Stir. (Optional) Run a lemon slice around the rim and dip each rim into sugar to coat.  Add lemon for garnish. Enjoy!

*The Spark Basil Vodka is also a great way to marinate a chicken. Just add Spark Basil Vodka, spices and let sit overnight. You will love how much flavor you will get out of your chicken with this addition.

STARTER SUGAR SHINE

Great Grandpa’s Classic Manhattan

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Starter Sugar Shine
  • 1 oz sweet vermouth
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • maraschino cherry, garnish
  • ice

Add the Starter Sugar Shine, sweet vermouth, the Angostura bitters, to a mixing glass with ice, and stir until well-chilled. Strain into a rocks glass / coupe. Garnish with a maraschino cherry. Enjoy!

Just Peachy

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Starter Sugar Shine 
  • 1 oz Peach Puree
  • 1 oz Orange juice 
  • Peach Slices
  • Lemon Slice
  • Sugar, for rim

Start by rimming the glass, use the lemon to go all the way around the glass and rim with sugar. Fill a glass ¾ with ice. Then add Starter Sugar Shine, the peach puree and orange juice. Stir and garnish with peaches. You can also garnish with some lavender or thyme to add more flare to your cocktail. 

 

*Some of the other great ways to use Starter Sugar Shine is to get a small mason jar and fill it up with some blueberries and then top it off with the Starter Sugar Shine and let sit. These make great garnish berries for your cocktails. 

HEADLIGHT VODKA

(80 Proof)

Headlight on Sunset Drive

Ingredients:

  • Ice
  • 1 oz Headlight Vodka
  • 1 ½ oz cranberry juice
  • 1 ½ oz orange juice
  • 1 lemon, cut into wedges to serve

Fill a tall glass with ice, then pour in the Headlight Vodka. Add the cranberry juice and orange juice and stir everything together. Garnish with a lemon wedge to serve. Enjoy!

Mule in the Headlights

Ingredients

  • Ice 
  • 1 ½ oz Headlight Vodka
  • 2 oz Ginger beer
  • 1 oz Fresh lemon juice
  • 1 oz Fresh lime juice
  • ½ oz Simple syrup
  • 2-3 Fresh mint leaves

 

Add Headlight Vodka and mint leaves to a glass and muddle. Add ice, ginger beer, fresh lemon juice, fresh lime juice and simple syrup. Give the cocktail a nice stir, garnish with mint and lemon or lime slice. Enjoy!

 

*Headlight is a great vodka to add to your bar for all your cocktail needs.

HIGH BEAM VODKA (100 PROOF)

Love Beam

Ingredients

  • 1oz High Beam Vodka
  • 1oz peach Liqueur
  • 3oz Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice
  • Ice
  • Mix red sprinkles and sugar to rim
  • Pomegranate bits

Directions:

In a shaker place ice, our High Beam Vodka, peach liqueur, and grapefruit juice and shake it. Create a rim for the glass by running a piece of the grapefruit along the edge and dipping the glass into some red sprinkles and sugar. In a glass place a small spoonful of pomegranate bits, and a few quarter slices in the glass. Pour the cocktail in with a few ice cubes.

Garnish with a skewer of grapefruit wedge by folding them in half and piercing a skewer through them.