Spicy Cocktails You Can Make At Home To Warm Up Your Winter

Spicy cocktails are the next big thing. Why you ask? Because they are different and open up a huge window to experiment with flavours. Any booze can be used as the base as long as you get the flavours right. Here’s five easy to make spicy cocktails. Try them out for yourself, and you will see why they are catching on!

Spicy Gin Cucumber Lemonade

Cucumber makes the drink refreshing while the gin makes it just right for all its lovers. Brownie points to the spicy twist.

What you’ll need:

• 120 ml gin
• 480 ml lemonade
• pinch of cayenne pepper
• 1 lemon, thinly sliced
• 8 thin slices cucumbers
• Ice

Instructions: 

1. Fill two high ball glasses with ice cubes
2. Add the gin, lemonade, cayenne and 4 slices of thinly sliced cucumber and some lemon wedges
3. Stir well and serve immediately

Also Read: 8 Cucumber Cocktail Recipes For The Uber Cool!

Shoo-fly Punch 

First of all, bourbon is perfect for winters. Secondly, the honey ginger twist makes it really really delicious. Thirdly, spicy cocktails like the Shoo-fly Punch deserve to be tried out just for the sake of their quirky name. It’s the perfect balance of sweet, sour and bitter.

What you’ll need:

• 5 tbsp bourbon
• 2 tbsp ginger liqueur
• 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 1 tbsp simple syrup
• 1/4 tsp bitters
• Crushed ice
• Orange slices
• Fresh mint sprig
• 1/3 cup ginger beer

Instructions:

1. Stir the first 5 ingredients together
2. Fill 1 glass or mason jar with crushed ice
3. Pour bourbon mixture over ice
4. Top with ginger beer
5. Garnish, if desired and serve immediately

Hot In Rio

This chile pepper, lime and cachaça cocktail captures the true spirit of Brazilian Carnivals. It’s exotic and tropical,  and the spicy twist makes it all the more delicious. This drink might not be everyone’s glass of cocktail, but it’s absolutely worth a try.

What you’ll need:

• 15 ml agave nectar
• 3 chile pepper slices
• 3 lime wedges
• 60 ml Leblon Cachaça
• 30 ml lime juice
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 chile pepper slices or lime wedge

Instructions:

1. In a shaker, muddle the agave nectar, chile pepper slices and lime wedges
2. Add the remaining ingredients and fill with crushed ice
3. Shake, and pour (unstrained) into a rocks glass
4. Garnish with additional chile pepper slices or a lime wedge

Also Read: Beginner’s Guide To Garnishing Cocktails

The Dalmatian 

This one might the hottest of them all. With a peppercorn syrup base and vodka-grapefruit combination, this cocktail is truly one of a kind.  Also, winter is the season of grapefruits and I don’t think there’s a better recipe to celebrate that.

What you’ll need:

• 1⁄4 cup crushed black peppercorns
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 45 ml Karlsson’s Gold vodka or other vodka
• 90 ml fresh grapefruit juice

Instructions:

1. First, for the black pepper syrup place sugar, water and peppercorns in a small pot
2. Bring to a boil, stirring once or twice
3. Strain the peppercorns out and chill
4. Combine the simple syrup, vodka, and grapefruit juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice
5. Shake vigorously for about a minute; strain into an ice-filled glass
6. Add pepper syrup on top

Spicy Maiden Cocktail

Rum and spices are always a good combination. With a pinch of cinnamon and lime juice, this drink has just the right amount of acidity and toastiness. Exactly what you need for a chilly winter evening.

What you’ll need: 

• 30 ml Dancing Pines Spiced rum
• 15 ml freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 pinch of cinnamon
• 3-1/8 th inch slices jalapeno, deseeded
• 60 ml pineapple juice
• Pineapple wedge and jalapeno slice to garnish

Instructions

1. Muddle jalapeno slices in a shaker
2. Add rum, lime juice, cinnamon and pineapple juice
3. Shake and pour into a rocks glass over fresh ice
4. Garnish and serve

Summing Up

There we have it – a slew of delicious spicy cocktails that are guaranteed to spice up the game. Easy to make and a great twist on the usual sweet cocktails, these drinks are for you if you like it spicy! We mean, cocktails.

FAQs

What Is A Cucumber Cocktail Called?

Cucumber cocktails have many names. Some of the most popular ones are:

• Cucumber And Rose Collins
• El Pepino
• Cucumber Gimlet
• Kentucky Maid
• Cucumber Cleanse
• Kew Garden
• Green Beast
• Hello, Sun

How To Cut Cucumbers For Cocktails?

Wheels of cucumber of varying thicknesses can be obtained by cutting across the width of the veggie. You can also be all fancy-schmancy by cutting thin strips of cucumber lengthwise, into thin ribbons to add to your cocktails.

What Cocktail Goes With Spicy Food?

Gin-based cocktails go well with pungent food since their citric tones help the palate to prepare for the next morsel. Similarly, sake and wine-based cocktails provide the same.

What Makes Cocktails Spicy?

It’s the ingredients such as cayenne peppers, jalapeño, black peppercorns, and Tabasco sauce that make cocktails spicy.

What Makes A Cocktail Spicy?

A cocktail can be made spicy by  infusing the spirit with a flavorful pepper like fresh jalapeño, serrano or habanero. 

What Cocktails Are Spicy?

There are a lot of spicy cocktails that pack a punch of spice and the classic burn of alcohol. Here are a few of them:

• Spicy Gin Cucumber Lemonade
• Michelada
• Shoo-fly Punch
• Hot In Rio
• The Dalmatian