Cocktail Recipes (True North Vodka)

Cosmopolitan

  • Ingredients:
  • 1 ½ oz True North Vodka™
  • ¾ oz Cointreaux
  • ½ oz cranberry juice
  • Splash lime juice

Mixing instructions: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice and mix vigorously. Stop when the shaker is too cold to hold. Strain into a chilled martini glass, garnish with a lemon twist. Wonderful drink!

Classic Vodka Martini

  • Ingredients:
  • Dry Vermouth
  • 2oz True North Vodka™, chilled

Mixing instructions: Pour a little bit of dry vermouth in a chilled martini glass and swirl to coat the inside of the glass. Dispose of excess vermouth, in a shaker of ice, gently swirl or stir the vodka before straining into glass, garnish with olives or lemon twist and rocks if you like.

Vodka “Neat”

Serving vodka “neat” (straight up) is best when cold although many do enjoy a quality vodka at room tempature. You may want to consider preparing your drinks “on the rocks” (on ice) or storing your vodka in the freezer. The high alcohol content allows vodka to be stored in the freezer without a problem. Enjoy your True North neat.

The Silver Bullet

  • 2oz of True North Vodka
  • 1/4oz of Springbank 15yr single malt whiskey

Mix and stir ingrediants with ice and a long cocktail spoon to chill and serve in a chilled martini glass.
Trattoria Stella- Traverse City Michigan

1:45

  1. 2 oz True North Cherry Flavored Vodka
  2. Splash of Grand Mariner (maybe a 1/4th of an oz)
  3. Mix in a metal cocktail tin and stir with a cocktail spoon
  4. Rub the rind of a orange twist on the rim of the glass and use the same twist for the garnish and pour into a chilled martini glass.

    Thanks to Jon at Trattoria Stella in Traverse City

Heaven

Take 2 large scoops of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream, 2 shots of Grand Traverse Cherry Flavored Vodka, add 1 banana into blender. Blend till soft.......Oh so good!!

The Cherry Sour

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz of True North Cherry Flavored Vodka
  • 1 1/2 oz of sour mix (see recipe)
  • Grenadine

The BevX perfect sour mix

  • 1 cup of water
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 cup of lemon juice
  • a cup of lime juice
  • 1 strip each (cut with vegetable peeler) of lime zest and lemon zest)
    Dissolve the sugar in warm water along with the citrus zest. When fully dissolved, cool and remove the citrus zest. When cool add the juices and mix completely. Done
    Method. Add a handful of ice to a shaker. Add the vodka and sour mix. Shake vigorously. Pour contents into a tall glass and garnish with grenadine syrup for a cool splash of color.
    The above cocktail was found on the web site listed below and is courtesy of Sean at the Beverage Experts. Very good source of information on beer, wine, and spirits! www.BevX.com.

Pamalicious

  • 1oz True North Cherry Flavored Vodka
  • 1oz Malibu Rum
  • 1oz peach schnapps
  • 2oz pama pomegranate liquor
  • 2 to 3oz or to taste cranberry/pomegranate juice.

Mix ingrediates and serve over crushed ice. Drink designed by Jon Damhof

True North Passion

  • 1 oz True North Cherry Flavored Vodka
  • 1 oz Malibu Passion Fruit Rum
  • 1 oz Pama Pomengrante Liqueur
  • 2 oz Blueberry/Pomengrante Juice.

Mix and serve over ice. Thanks to Jon Damhof for this drink!

Spice and Sweetheart Cocktail

Step 1:  Make a cardamom- infused simple syrup by bringing to a boil 1 cup of water, 3/4 cup superfine sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 2 teaspoons cardamom.

Step 2:  Pour 1 once cooled cardamom infused syrup, 1 once pomegranate juice and 2 onces of True North Vodka into cocktail shaker; shake.

Step 3 :  Strain into chilled cocktail glass, gulp, go crazy.

Optional:  Finish with pomegranate fruit seeds before serving.
Found in Febuary 2009, Traverse-Northern Michigan's Magazine - Thanks!

True North Valentine Fizz
Add 1oz of True North Vodka with 2oz of cranberry juice or pomegranate juice, shake over crushed ice.  Strain into a champagne flute and top with Fizz or Sex from L. Mawby Vineyards or Cremant for a drier cocktail.  Garnish with a chocolate covered cherry. Rick Coates - The Northern Express

Moscow Mule
A Classic hot-day cocktail with a lovely fizzy, gingery bite.

  • 2 oz True North Vodka
  • 1 oz fresh lime juice
  • 4 oz ginger beer (try Stewart's)
  • Lime wedge for garnish
  • Stir vodka and juice together well in a copper mug or a chilled Collins glass.  Add fresh ice and top with ginger beer.
  • Garnish with a lime wedge.
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Emily Betz Tyra- Traverse Northern Michigan Magazine

True North Cherry Blossom

  • 2 parts True North Cherry Flavored Vodka.
  • 1 part Saint Brendan's Irish Cream Liquor or Bailey's Irish Cream
  • Mix over ice to chill and enjoy.

Cherritini

  • 1 oz True North Cherry Flavored Vodka
  • 1 oz Melange (from Peninsula Cellars) or other cherry dessert wine
  • Drizzle of cherry concentrate
  • Shaken over ice- garnish with a marachino cherry

- The Cherry Stop- Traverse City Michigan

Traverse City Cherry Hummer

  • 4 shots of True North Cherry Flavored Vodka
  • 6 shots of Baileys
  • 1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream

Blend up and enjoy! - Thanks Chris from Traverse City!

True North Screwdriver
Pour 2 ounces of this (over a few ice cubes) into a highball glass, and fill the glass with 4 - 6 ounces of freshly squeezed orange juice. Add an orange wheel or a dash of angostura bitters to your highball for a lick of (optional) garnish.

Bloody Mary

  • Several pinches celery salt or to taste
  • Several dashes TABASCO SAUCE ®
  • 4-6 oz. Tomato juice
  • 1/4 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 tsp. dill (fresh or dried)
  • 1½ oz True North Vodka™
  • 1 tsp. lemon juice
  • Pinch white pepper

Mixing instructions: Mix all ingredients well with cracked ice and serve in a chilled glass with additional ice cubes if needed. Serving suggestion: Garnish with celery.

Scewdrive with a twist

We turned to Grand Marnier <http://www.proof66.com/single_display.asp?id=304> and turned that screwdriver into one of our favorite drink’s: the Maiden’s Prayer. This is a bit of orange juice, a bit of Grand Marnier, and a bit of vodka in roughly equal parts. Shoving that orange liqueur into the screwdriver with the True North made one of the very few drinks that will survive in our dreams. Something about the cognac and spices in the orange liqueur with the bread-and-butter taste of the vodka made something very exciting and incredibly intoxicating in every sense of the word. We have seldom ever tasted anything as spectacular as that True North vodka in that Maiden’s Prayer. Our highest recommendations for that mixture.