If you’re ever out at a bar and trying to figure out what to order or simply in your home and looking to impress your guests, you can never go wrong with a nice mixed vodka drink. Luckily for us, the fine folks at Nemiroff Vodka are here to help with some of the best vodka recipes you can imagine.
From a mixture of vodka and ginger beer to vodka and cucumber, there’s no shortage of incredible recipes that will satisfy everyone’s taste buds.
So what is the best vodka cocktail for you?
Check out some of the best vodka recipes you can try below, via Nemiroff Vodka.
Front Row
- 2 ounces Nemiroff Vodka
- ½ ounce Absinthe
- ¾ ounce Lime Juice
- ½ ounce Cinnamon syrup
- 3 ounces Ginger beer
- Glassware: Collin glass
- Garnish: Fresh mint sprig and a ginger candy
Directions: Fill a Boston Shaker three-quarters full with ice. Add Nemiroff Vodka, Absinthe, Lime Juice and the cinnamon syrup, and shake hard for 10 seconds. Fill Collin glass with bar ice and strain the cocktail and topped with ginger beer.
Cinnamon syrup: In a small saucepot add 1cup water and 4 cinnamon sticks and bring to boil. Simmer for 10 minutes, and strain out cinnamon sticks. Bring water back to a boil, add ½ cup sugar and stir until sugar is dissolved.
No guts, No glory Mule
- 2 ounces Nemiroff Honey Pepper Vodka
- ½ ounce of Green Chartreuse
- ½ ounce Lime Juice
- ¾ ounce Thai bird chili ginger syrup
- Club Soda Glassware: Mule mug
- Garnish: Thai bird chili and ginger candy
Directions: Combine all the ingredients except the club soda into a shake with few ice cubes and short shake. Strain into a Moscow mule mug filled with ice cubes. Top with club soda. Thai bird chili and
Ginger syrups: Combine 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, and ¼ cup chopped ginger and seedless Thai bird chilies in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer for 1 minute. Remove from heat and let syrup steep, about 30 minutes. Pour syrup into a sterilized glass jar through a mesh strainer to remove rosemary leaves, let cool before serving.
Tap Out
- 2 ounces Nermirfoff Vodka
- ½ ounce Aperol
- 2 ounces of Grapefruit juice
- ½ ounce Rosemary syrup
- 2-3 drops Angostura bitters
- Glassware: Coupe glass
- Garnish: Rosemary sprig
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and fill the shaker with ice. Shake the mixture vigorously for 10 seconds and double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Rosemary Syrups; Combine 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, and ¼ cup rosemary leaves in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer for 1 minute. Remove from heat and let syrup steep, about 30 minutes. Pour syrup into a sterilized glass jar through a mesh strainer to remove rosemary leaves; let cool.
Round 1
- 1½ ounces Nemiroff Vodka
- ¾ ounce Campari
- ½ ounce Jagermeister
- Glassware: Double old-fashioned
- Garnish: Orange peel
Directions: Pour all the ingredients in a cocktail mixing glass with a half filled with ice and stir till chilled. Strain, using a hawthorne strainer into an double old-fashioned glass with ice and garnish with the orange peel. Hold the orange peel colored side down and twist and squeeze the peel over the about two inches above the cocktail.
Ground and Pound
- 2 ounces Nemiroff Pepper Vodka
- 4 drops Absinthe
- ¾ ounce Honey syrup
- ¾ ounce Lemon juice
- 1 ounce Egg white
- Glassware: Coupe glass
- Garnish: Edible printed roaring lion
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a shaker. Dry shake first, then wet shake and double strain into a coupe glass and garnish.
Light Weight
- 1 ½ ounce Nemiroff Vodka
- ¾ ounce Lime Juice
- 3½ ounces Tonic water
- Glassware: Collin Glass
- Garnish: 1 Ribbon Cucumber 1 Crack Black pepper
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a Collin glass fill with ice and cucumber ribbon. Stir gently and crack black pepper to finish the garnish.
Jiu jitsu
- 2 ounces Nemiroff Vodka
- ½ ounce Campari
- 1 ounce Coconut Cream
- 2 ounces Pineapple juice
- ½ Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- Glassware: Tiki mug
- Garnish: Ground Coconut, Nutmegs and a Pineapple wedge
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled half with ice.Shake vigorously for 10 seconds and pour into a Tiki mug and top with crush ice and garnish.
The Great Come Back
- 1½ ounces Nemiroff Vodka
- ½ ounce Averna Amaro
- ½ ounce White Crème de cocoa
- 1 ounce Espresso
- ¾ ounce Simple Syrup
- Glassware: Coupe Glass
- Garnish: Coffee beans
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Fine strain into a chilled coupe glass and wait few seconds for the cocktail to settle and garnish with 3 coffee beans.
Nemiroff Hooks
- 1¾ ounces Nemiroff Pepper Vodka
- ½ ounce Amaretto
- ½ ounce Grenadine (1:1:1 Sugar, Hot water and Pomegranate)
- ½ ounce Lime Juice
- 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
- Garnish: Angostura bitters and Mint Sprig
- Glassware: Double Rocks
Directions: Combine all the ingredients into a shaker and few ice cubes and short shake and pour into double rocks glass. Top with crush ice and a mint sprig and few dashes of angostura bitters.
Final Round
- 1½ ounces Nemiroff Vodka
- ¾ ounce Passion Fruit syrup ( 1:1 Passion fruit puree and Simple syrup )
- ½ ounce St.-Germain
- ¾ ounce Lemon Juice Dry Champagne
Directions: Pour all the ingredients except the dry champagne into a shaker half filled ice. Shake vigorously and strain into champagne flute.