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Wedding Drinks
A sample of various popular wedding drinks created by our staff. Whether it's color, uniqueness, or ingredients your aiming for we can design a recipe to match. Any liquor bar we serve gets a free custom designed cocktail for their wedding when requested.
Pink Martini
Color themed and available in peach, orange, citrus, cherry, or fruit flavors.
1. Mix flavored vodka with X-rated over ice and shake well.
2. Strain into chilled martini glass and garnish accordingly.
2 oz. Flavored Vodka
2 oz. X-rated Fusion Liqueur
Blue Margarita
Colored themed classic margarita
1. Mix ingredients in shaker over ice.
2. Strain into blue salted margarita glass with ice and garnish with lime.
1 oz. Tequila
.75 oz. Blue Curacao
Sweet n' Sour
Lime
Duke's Mooney Shine
Created for the dukes and mooney reception
1. Muddle limes, oranges, and rasberries in bottom of mixing glass with a splash of sweet n' sour.
2. Fill glass with ice, cranberry juice, sweet n' sour, and rum.
3. Pour into shaker and back into glass while adding a splash of orange soda.
4. Serve in a sugar rimmed collins glass and garnish with a lime.
2 oz. Dark Rum
3 Lime Wedges
2 Orange Wedges
2 Rasberries
3.5 oz. Sweet n' Sour
1.5 oz. Cranberry Juice
Splash of Orange Soda
Chocolate Martini
A great dessert drink for sit down dinners.
1. Chill ingredients in cooler first if possible.
2. Mix all ingredients in shaker until ice particles form.
3. Strain into chilled martini glass and garnish with strawberry.
.5 oz. Vodka
1.5 oz. Godiva Liqueur
1 oz. Creme de Cacao
2 oz. Half & Half
Strawberry
Jennings & Juice
As served at the Jennings wedding reception.
1. Shake O.J. and Gin vigorously until ice particles form.
2. Strain into martini or rocks glass without ice.
3. Add a splash of grenadine.
4. Garnish with a cherry.
1 oz. Gin
5 oz. O.J.
Grenadine Splash
Cherry Garnish
Groom's Mojito
Created by Stuart & Karen Johnson for their own reception.
1. Drop 5 mint leaves, rum, 1 packet of sugar, and 3 lime wedges into collins glass then muddle well.
2. Fill glass with ice.
3. Top with sprite and a splash of sweet n' sour.
4. Stir with a bar spoon for presentation and garnish with a lime wedge.
1.5 oz. Rum
Mint Leaves
Sugar Packet
4 Lime Wedges
Sprite Splash
Sweet n' Sour
The Watt's
Created by Stuart & Karen Johnson for their own reception.
1. Mix Grand Gala, Cranberry, and a splash of O.J. in a high ball on the rocks.
2. Party like a rock star and enjoy!
2 oz. Grand Gala
1.5 oz. Cranberry
Splash of Orange Juice
Traditional Cocktails
Traditional classics for your pleasure.
Just for Fun
"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" Here is our collection of wild and cooky cocktail recipes for you to try. If you have a recipe you would like added to this section e-mail it to us today.
Twisted Sister
Created by Andy Lakatos
1. Shake Jack Daniels, Amaretto, Cranberry, and OJ in shaker.
2. Pour on into rocks glass over ice.
3. Top with a splash of coke and get twisted.
1 oz. Jack Daniels
1 oz. Amaretto
Cranberry Splash
Orange Juice Splash
Coca Cola Splash
Top Shelf Gail
Created by Alison for Gail's birthday
1. Chill martini glass with ice.
2. Add all ingredients in mixing tin and shake violently.
3. Strain concoction into glass and garnish with a lime wheel.
4. Drink like it's your birthday!
1 oz. Jose Cuervo Gold
.75 oz. Grand Marnier
1.5 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
.75 oz. Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice.
The Love Shack
A blend of what was available and named after the location.
1. Pour Cider in mug and top with rum.
.5 oz. Dark Rum
4.5 oz. Hot Apple Cider
Andy's Old Fashioned
Created by Andy Lakatos for Gail's birthday
1. Muddle cherries, sugar, lime, and lemon in bottom of rocks glass with a very small splash of sweet n' sour.
2. Fill glass with ice and add Crown Royal.
2 oz. Crown Royal Reserve
1 Lime Wedge
3 Cherries
1 Lemon Wedge
1 Sugar Packet
Alexander's Bannana
A historical tribute by Andy Lakatos
1. Pour all ingredients over ice into mixing tin and shake vigorously.
2. Pour into tall glass over ice.
3. Garnish with several small peaces of bannana and imagine your "alexander the great" having his first chomp on the yellow fruit!
.75 oz. Bannana Liqueur
.5 oz. Creme De Cacao
.5 oz. Light Rum
2.5 oz. Pineapple Juice
1.5 oz. Cranberry Juice
.5 oz Orange Juice
Shabu Shabu
A cocktail by "Willy"
1. Fill rocks glass with ice then add vodka, campari, and OJ.
2. Lightly stir and garnish with a cherry.
.75 oz. Vodka
.25 oz. Campari
Orange Juice
Cherry
Shooters
Chug Chug Chug, Down the hatch, Bottom's up, Toast, you get the point.
Red Light Collision
Anonymous Sender. A twist on the popular stop light. Attemp at your own risk!
1. Line up 5 shooter cups in front of 2 unlucky participants. Each will drink the 2 shots in front of them and finish the last shot together, from 2 strategically placed straws. First drink is green, second is yellow, and third is red. At the end of the last shooter you will slightly bump their noggins creating the collision effect.
2. Mix 1 oz. vodka into tin with sweet n' sour and pour into 2nd cup.
3. Mix Melon Liqueur with 1 oz. vodka and pour into 1st cup.
4. Mix 1 oz. vodka and grenadine and pour into 3rd cup.
3 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Sweet n' Sour
1 oz. Melon Liqueur
Grenadine
The Matrix
Andy's attempt at acting
1. Before serving drink prepare 1 oz of water with a splash of grenadine in shot glass.
2. Costume up and call for Neo (your guest) while explaining how there is another reality they have not yet experienced and how you can offer them the truth.
4. Mix Vodka, curacao, and Sweet n' Sour in shaker and pout into shot glass.
5. Slam both drinks on the bar and offer Neo a chance to see how deep the rabbit hole is or too drink the red one and wake up not remembering a thing.
6. If Neo drinks the red shot you give up your acting career.
1 oz. Vodka
.75 oz. Sweet n' Sour
.5 oz. Blue Curacao
Grenadine
Water
Black Coat & Dark Sunglasses
The Holidays
Drinks for the holidays.
Jack Frosties
Created for the Knoxville News Sentinel Holiday Recipes article
1. Put all ingredients into blender for about 45 seconds or until ice is crushed.
2. Serve in your favorite holiday glass and top with whipped cream and cherry.
**Tastes great with or without alcohol
.5 oz. Whiskey
.5 oz. White Creme de Cacao
1 scoop of Starbucks Coffee Ice Cream
1/2 cup of Egg Nog
1/2 cup of Ice
Whipped Cream
Cherry
Candy Cane
A classical holiday recipe
1. Chill and rim martini glass with crushed peppermint.
2. Vigorously mix all ingredients except gingerale in shaker and strain into glass.
3. Add gingerale splash.
4. Garnish with a peppermint stick.
.75 oz. Peppermint Schnapps
.75 oz. Creme de Cacao
1.5 oz Cream
Grenadine Splash
Gingerale Splash
Tennessee Volunteer
Our tribute drink to the Tennessee Vols
1. Mix all ingredients except Mountain Dew in shaker and strain into drinking glass on ice.
2. Top with a splash of Mountain Dew.
3. Garnish with a fat orange slice.
4. Drink while singing Rocky Top!
.5 oz. Vodka
.5 oz. Gin
.5 oz. Tequila
1.5 oz. Orange Juice
1.5 oz. Pineapple Juice
Mountain Dew Splash
Perfect Poinsettia
A classical holiday recipe
1. Vigorously mix Triple Sec and Cranberry juice in shaker then strain into chilled champagne flute.
2. Fill glass with champaign
3. Garnish with a full strawberry
1 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. Cranberry Juice
Champaign
Christmas Cocoanog
A classical holiday recipe
1. Rim stemmed goblet with red and white peppermint sugar.
2. Mix all ingredients in shaker and strain into glass over ice.
3. Garnish with a green chocolate cherry or your favorite treat.
1 oz. Crown Royal
Kahlua Mudslide Mixer
Egg Nog
Turkey Dinner
A very strange recipe by Andy Lakatos
1. Rim stemmed goblet with red and white peppermint sugar.
2. Mix all ingredients in shaker and strain into glass over ice.
3. Garnish with a green chocolate cherry or your favorite treat.
.5 oz. Wild Turkey
.5 oz. Chopin Vodka
Cranberry Juice
Sliver of Turkey
Chase the Snake
A Saint Patricks Day cocktail by Jaclynn Woodroof.
1. Drink shot of Chartreuse
2. Chase the Chartreuse away like St. Patrick chased the snakes from Ireland.
1 oz. Green Chartreuse
Pilsner of Beamish
Sippin Syzurp
A Saint Patricks Day cocktail by Michelle Harris.
1. Fill a mug with crushed ice. (Crushed very important)
2. Top glass with Baileys and enjoy the delight.
Baileys
Frozen Concoctions
Frozen drink recipes.
Pina Colada
Tennessee Bartenders version
1. Add all ingredients into blender until ice is reduced evenly.
2. Pour into collins or margarita glass and garnish with a pineapple wedge.
1.5 oz. Rum
1 oz. Cream of Coconut
4 pineapple chunks
1.5 oz. Pineapple Juice
Sugar Packet
Pineapple Wedge
Protein & Energy Blends
Bulking, cutting, health, and workout blends.
Big Ben's Workout Shake
Submitted by Ben Morgan
1. Blend all ingredients and pour into insulated cup with lid.
2. Workout hard.
3. Drink shake after workout.
4. Grow big like Ben.
1.25 Cup Frozen Mixed Fruit
.5 Cup Crushed Pineapple
.25 Cup Ice
1 Cup Orange Juice
1 Sliced Bannana
3 Chunks of Pineapple
2 Scoops Vanilla Protein Powder
Pot of Gold
A Saint Patricks Day cocktail by Jessica Vantrease
1. 2 person shot sequence and each person has 3 shots to reach the "pot of gold"
2. Person A in order gets creme de casis (red), Dekuyper strawberry+Dek. Banana (orange), Dekuyper banana (yellow)
3. Person B in order gets blackberry (purple), blue curacao (blue), Apple Pucker (green).
4. Both end with the same shot of goldshclager at the same time by drinking from 2 straws arranged in glass
1 oz. Creme de Cassis
1.5 oz. bannana liqueur
.5 oz. strawberry liqueur
1 oz. blackberry liqueur
1 oz. blue curacao
1 oz. apple pucker
Tennessee Bartenders Creations
Recipes created by Tennessee Bartenders staff and available for purchase to go or for your event. Please note we only sale the base mixes and you must purchase any alcohols.
Sangria Supreme
Made by Tennessee Bartenders
1. Prepare simple syrup mix by boiling 1 cup or water and sugar and cool.
2. Dice apples into 1/4 inch rectangular, odd sized, chunks. Cut lemons and limes into small medium wedges. Cut clementines into thin wheels. Leave grapes whole.
3. Throw all of fruit into the bottom of a large conainer, pour in all 4 bottles of wine, 1/2 cup of pineapple rum, 1/2 cup of triple sec, and all of your simple syrup mixture.
4. Cautiously, bruise the fruit with a wooden spoon (the secret here is to lightly press on the fruits squeezing a portion of their juices into the mixture, without defacing them)
5. Let this mixture sit in the refrigerator for about 8 hours.
6. When ready to serve pour this mixture into your serving container or pitcher and top with gingerale. You should aim to top with about 40/60 proportions of both. So if using a pitcher fill 60% up with sangria and the other 40% with ginger ale. Always add the gingerale just before serving and give a slight swirl to mix the ingredients.
**Got questions about making this? Email us.
**Makes 25+ servings
3 Washington Apples
2 Lemons
2 Limes
3 Clementines
Small Bushel of White Grapes
1 Cup Sugar
(4) 750 ML Bottles of Chardonnay
3/4 Cup of Cruzan Pineapple Rum
3/4 Cup of Triple Sec
Cherry Lime Aide
1. Fill 16 oz. glass 2/3 full with ice.
2. Add shot of alcohol or continue to non-alcoholic version.
3. Squeeze lime and lemon wedges into glass.
4. Add splash of grenadine and top with sprite.
5. Drop 2 cherries on top and call it a day.
2 Lime Wedges
1 Lemon Wedge
1 Can of Sprite
Grenadine Splash
Bulk Bomb
Created by Tennessee Bartenders
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Margarita
1. Salt margarita or tall drinking glass if needed, then fill with ice.
2. Add all ingredients in shaker and mix well.
3. Strain mixture into glass and garnish with a lime.
1 oz. Tequila
.5 oz. Triple Sec
3 oz. Sweet n' Sour
Orange Juice Splash
Tequila Sunrise
1. Fill rocks glass with ice then add tequila and fill with orange juice.
2. Splash some grenadine around the inside edge of glass to create a beatiful sunrise.
1 oz. Tequila
Orange Juice
Grenadine Splash
Long Island Tea
1. Mix all ingredients but coke in shaker and mix well.
2. Strain mixture into collins glass on the rocks.
3. Squeeze juice of 2 lemons on top and garnish with 3rd.
4. Add splash of coke to top and enjoy.
.5 oz. Vodka
.5 oz. Gin
.5 oz. Lt. Rum
.5 oz. Tequila
.5 oz. Triple Sec
2.5 oz. Sweet n' Sour
Coca Cola Splash
3 Lemon Wedges
Neuro Bomb
1. Chill Jager and pour shot.
2. Drop shot into cup of neuro and drink.
1 oz. Jagermeister
Neurofuel can
Bride's Breeze
Created by Stuart & Karen Johnson for their own reception.
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Mind Eraser
1. Layer ingredients in rocks glass over ice starting with kahlua, then vodka, and last soda.
2. Gently insert a straw and drink from the bottom up in one try.
1.5 oz. Kahlua
1.5 oz. Vodka
1.5 oz. Club Soda
