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# Drambuie Cocktails · Rampant Scotland

Recipes

# Drambuie Cocktails

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*Traditional Scottish Recipes*
 *- Drambuie Cocktails*

* Some people might say that [Drambuie](https://web.archive.org/web/20250714121425/http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/bldev_knowdrambuie.htm) on its own is the perfect drink but others feel it necessary to add other flavours to the recipe (said to have given by Bonnie Prince Charlie to members of the Mackinnon clan who helped him to escape after the defeat at Culloden in 1746). So here are a number of cocktails which include Drambuie.*

*Don't be too concerned about "centilitres" or "millilitres" or "tablespoons" - just use the same measures for each liquid ingredient.*

**Aftershock**
 *Ingredients:*
 5 cl Drambuie

5 cl Malibu rum

5 cl Cherry brandy

10 cl Lemonade

Just pour the ingredients into a glass and stir.

**Black Tartan**
 *Ingredients:*
 1 part Johnnie Walker Black whisky
 1 part Irish whisky
 1 part Drambuie
 1 1/2 part Kahlua
 Shake with ice and strain over ice.

**Christmas Pudding**
 *Ingredients:*
 100 ml Southern Comfort
 100 ml Drambuie
 500 ml Guinness stout
 Add Southern Comfort and then Drambuie in a large goblet. Top up with draught or chilled Guinness.

**Cumulus #1**
 *Ingredients:*
 3 cl Drambuie
 1.5 cl Tia maria
 1 cl Cream
 1 Egg yolk
 2 teaspoons sugar
 Shake well with ice. Serve in frosted glass and sprinkle with powdered coffee or nutmeg.

**Dancing Leprechaun**
 *Ingredients:*
 1 1/2 oz Irish whisky
 3/4 oz Drambuie
 3/4 oz Lemon juice
 Ginger ale
 Twist of Lemon peel
 Shake with ice. Strain into glass with ice cubes. Add a twist of lemon.

**Jack Frost**
 *Ingredients:*
 2 tblsp Jack Daniels
 1 tblsp Drambuie
 1 dash Grenadine
 1/4 cup Sweet and sour mix
 1/4 cup Orange juice
 Combine all the ingredients over ice in a glass.

**Kiltlifter**
 *Ingredients:*
 1.5 oz single malt Scotch
 1.0 oz Drambuie or Glayva
 2.5 oz Rose's Lime Juice
 Shake gently and pour over ice in old fashioned glass.

**Loch Lomond**
 *Ingredients:*
 2 oz Scotch whisky
 1/2 oz Drambuie
 1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
 1 twist of Lemon peel
 In a mixing glass half-filled with ice cubes, combine the Scotch, Drambuie, and vermouth. Stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with the twist of lemon peel.

**Suitor**
 *Ingredients:*
 1 cl Drambuie
 1 cl Orange liqueur (such as Gran Marnier)
 1 cl Bailey's irish cream
 2/3 cl Milk
 Pour in order.

**Umbrella Man Special**
 *Ingredients:*
 6 cl Vodka
 6 cl Kahlua
 6 cl Bailey's irish cream
 6 cl Grand Marnier
 6 cl Drambuie
 Mix all ingredients in a shaker. Serve with straw and ice cubes and put a cocktail umbrella beside the straw in the glass.

**Warm Woolly Sheep**
 *Ingredients:*
 1 measure Scotch whisky
 1 1/2 measure Drambuie
 Fill with warm Milk
 Mix Scotch and Drambuie, top with warm milk.

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