If you need a couple of quick and easy cocktail recipes to make this holiday season, you’ll impress your friends and family with two drinks that are sure to please the whisky and beer lovers in your crew.

 

Show off your bartending skills with two of Austin’s local favorites, Garrison Brothers Distillery and Independence Brewing.  The duo have teamed up to create a couple of cocktails that will please any festive palette this holiday season.

 

Coffee Stout Martini

With Garrison Brothers Bourbon and Independence Brewing Convict Hill.

RECIPE: 

• 2 oz Convict Hill

• 1.5 oz bourbon

• 1.5 oz cold brew

• 1 oz pomegranate juice

• .5 oz maple syrup

• Garnish with coffee beans

 

 

Maple Bourbon Shandy

With Garrison Brothers Bourbon and Independence Brewing Freak Power.

credit: Julia Keim

(Inspiration HERE)

RECIPE: 

• 1.5 oz bourbon

• .5 oz maple syrup

• .5 oz fresh squeezed orange juice

• Shake and pour over ice

• Fill the rest of the way with Freak Power

• Garnish with orange/blood orange slices