If you are an avid Game of Thrones fan like me, everything that even vaguely connects to the show catches your fancy. One thing that we see a lot in the show is alcohol, mostly wine, in various pitchers and flutes, being downed by various characters in plenty. Today, I share some of the Game of Thrones cocktail recipes that can be made easily, and make for a great viewing party or a theme party, or just for fun.
Sources for these recipes include Buzzfeed and Paste Magazine.
Fire and Blood
To make this, you need grenadine, 50 mL of white rum and a splash of your favorite spirit.
Pour the spirit into a glass and swirl it carefully so that the liquid covers the sides of the glass, then pour away the remaining alcohol. Pour a drop of grenadine into the bottom of the glass and then finish by pouring the rum on the top. Set fire to the alcohol before serving.
The Herbal Valar Morghulis
Of course, all men must die, and to make this you need
50 mL Gin
3 dashes Absinthe
20 mL lemon juice
Sprig of Rosemary
Sprig of Lavender
Tonic Water
Shake all the ingredients together, except for the tonic water. Then double strain the drink through a sieve into a drinking horn packed with crushed ice. Top it up with the tonic water.
Chocolate Vanilla White Walker
White walkers are scary, but to make them sweet you need –
White chocolate liqueur
Vanilla cream soda
Blue Curacao
Fill a tall glass with ice, then fill it halfway with white chocolate liqueur. Fill the rest of the glass up with vanilla cream soda. Finally, slowly and gently, pour a spoonful of blue curacao over the top. The drink should look layered, light blue on the top and white below.
The Cinnamon Apple Red Viper
A shot of apple cinnamon in a far classier version of a deadly snakebite, to make this you need –
A bottle of hard cider
1 part firewater (100 proof cinnamon Schnapps)
1 part Bourbon
Splash of McGillicuddy’s Apple Pie
Cinnamon
Pour chilled hard cider into a tall glass. Line the rim of a shot glass with cinnamon. Add firewater, bourbon and McGillycuddy’s to the shot glass. Drop the filled shot glass into the cider. Enjoy!
Winter is Coming
Winter is indeed coming, and make this one you need
Tonic Water
30 mL Gin
Lemon Juice
Sugar
Pour your tonic water into a container and place this in the freezer until your tonic water is completely frozen. Then, put some sugar in a shallow dish and smear the edge of the martini glass with a little lemon juice. Roll the lemon juice smeared edge into your sugar dish so the sugar sticks to it and then put the glass in the freezer. Take the frozen tonic water out and crush it with a spoon. Put this is in the chilled martini glass. Pour the lemon juice and gin over the top.
The Ginger & Cranberry Ygritte
45 mL Vodka
15 mL Cranberry juice
15 mL lemon juice
Splash of Ginger Ale
2 Strawberries
Mix all the liquid ingredients together and garnish with strawberries.
Kissed by Fire Ale & Tomato Cocktail
50 mL Gin
200 mL Tomato juice
1 bottle dark ale
Whole egg
Cayenne Pepper
Tabasco Sauce
Add all the ingredients into a shaker, then pour the mixture from one cup to the next with a little crushed ice. Strain the whole thing into a blown dragon egg and serve on a bed of fire. If dragon eggs are unavailable, a glass should work too.
House Tyrell Growing Strong
Mint
Basil
1 tbsp Sugar
50 mL Lime Juice
80 mL Gin
Tonic water
Muddle four basil leaves, four mint leaves and sugar in a cocktail shaker. Add the lime juice, gin and ice, and then shake and pour into a glass. Top up with tonic water. Garnish with more lime quarters, and mint and basil leaves.
Dragon Blood Punch
750 mL Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva Rum
450 mL Lemon Juice
300 mL Rosemary & Thyme syrup
150 mL Honey
To prepare the Rosemary & Thyme syrup, combine two parts white sugar with one part water. Add one sprig of Thyme and one sprig of Rosemary, and bring it to a boil. Let it stand until cool.
Combine all the ingredients for the cocktail in a punch bowl with ice. Ladle it into punch glasses. Garnish each glass with a sprig of rosemary & Thyme.
Floral Lion & Rose Cocktail
35 mL Gin
25 mL Abor Gold Wine or any Sauternes
1 tsp lime marmalade
20 mL Egg white
Shake all the ingredients together and strain into your preferred goblet. Garnish with a rose.
House Tully’s Family, Duty, Honor
40 mL Strawberry syrup
50 mL Curacao liqueur
About 100 mL Sprite
Throw some ice into a glass, then pour the strawberry syrup on top. Next, carefully pour a spoonful of blue curacao over the syrup to create two layers of pink and blue. Finish by carefully pouring sprite on top.
Ginger & Vodka Needle Shot
30 mL Vodka
15 mL Ginger Beer
Juice of half a lime
Pour all the ingredients in a shot glass, then toss it back.
Winter is Flaming Cocktail
50 mL Gin
12.5 mL Limoncello
25 mL Grand Marnier
Juniper Berries
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Stir the ingredients together and pour into a large warmed brandy balloon. Serve with a flame bright enough to keep a white walker at bay.
House Baratheon’s Our’s is the Fury
50 mL Water
50 mL Honey
50 mL Gin
30 mL Lemon Juice
30 mL Orange Juice
Make a honey syrup by heating up the honey and water in a saucepan on a low heat until it comes to a boil. Then take it off the heat and let it cool. Take 30 mL of your cooled syrup and put it into a shaker. Add the remaining ingredients, shake and serve.
Mother of Dragons Champagne Cocktail
Dragon Fruit
Rose Champagne
Scoop balls of dragon fruit out using a half teaspoon scoop and place them in a champagne flute. Top it up with Rose Champagne.
House Greyjoy’s We Do not Sow
1/3 tsp freshley grated ginger
3 slices of orange
15 mL Lemon juice
30 mL Cointreau
60 mL Whisky
Muddle the ginger and orange in a cocktail shaker. Add lemon juice, Cointreau and Whisky and shake thoroughly. Pour into a glass filled with ice cubes, being sure to double strain by pouring through a fine sieve.
The Crows Old Fashioned
45 mL Tariquet VSOP Armagnac
30 mL Amaro Lucano
2 dashes Chartreuese
1 splash simple syrup
Star Anise
Orange Peel
Stir all the ingredients over ice, strain and serve in an old fashioned glass. Garnish with anise and orange peel.
The Night’s Watch
This caffeinated cocktail should give you the jolt you need to stay up and fight those scary White Walkers. Just the thought of them gives me the chills.
3 oz Chilled Coffee
0.25 oz Benedictine
0.25 oz Maraschino Liqueur
Add all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake and strain into a glass, then serve.
The Tyrion Lannister Shot
Tyrion Lannister is a fan favorite, and it is easy to see why. Just like this cocktail, he enjoys the hedonistic sweetness of life but has a little bite of bitter at the end. To make 8 shots, you need –
5 oz Grey Goose La Poire Vodka
2.5 oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur
2 oz Simple Syrup
2.5 oz Freh Squeezed Lemon Juice
10 Fresh Mint Leaves
Place all ingredients in a shaker and shake hard 26 times with ice. Strain into shot glasses.
The Dragon Lady
This season the Khaleesi roars. She, and her three dragons. Need some liquid courage? Try out the Dragon Lady, and you will start roaring soon too.
2 oz Vodka
1 oz Mango Juice
0.5 oz Lime Juice
0.5 oz Triple Sec
Fresh dragon fruit (cubed) and a dash of Cayenne
Place the vodka, juices and triple sec in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled glass, add dragon fruit cubes and enjoy.
Wildfire on Blackwater Bay
2.5 oz Rye Whiskey
0.5 oz 151 proof rum
0.5 oz Simple Syrup
5 dashes Angostura Bitters
Stir and strain all ingredients into a cup. Set a piece of lime peel in the drink. Pour 151 proof rum in proof rum on the peel. Light the peel with the match. Make sure you blow out the fire before it warps your cup.
The Kingslayer
0.5 oz Sour Mix
2 oz Cranberry Mix
2 oz Jameson Whiskey
Mix and pour over ice.
Cersei’s Sangria
Cersei is a lean, mean & ambitious queen. We all love to hate her as much as she loves to hate to love anything. She disdains everyone. That’s why this mix of snooty Sauvignon Blanc, Fruity Flavors, and sour lime are the perfect drink for our queen of mean. To make four servings, you need –
750 m Sauvignon Blanc
18-24 fresh cherries, pitted and sliced
1 lime
0.5 cup raspberries
0.25 cup of triple sec
Pit and slice the cherries and add them to a large pitcher along with the juice of half a lime. Pour the wine and triple sec in and allow in to steep for at least an hour. Immediately before serving, add in the berries and dice the remaining lime. Serve chilled. However, do not add all the lime all at once, otherwise, the drink turns out to be horribly bitter. Also, don’t add the raspberries too early either.
Red Wedding Spiked Punch
1.5 oz Hornitos Plata Tequila
0.5 oz Honey Syrup
1 slice fresh ginger
4 oz Pinot Noir or Merlot
Cinnamon and grated nutmeg to garnish
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass and stir until combined. Pour over ice into a goblet or double old-fashioned glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg and cinnamon.
The Wall
0.5 oz Lime Juice
0.5 oz Simple Syrup
2 oz Plymouth Gin
1 Egg white
A few dashes of mint bitters
Dry ice
Club Soda
Combine lime juice, simple syrup, gin, egg white and mint bitters in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously, strain into a pre-chilled glass over a medium chunk of dry ice. Top with club soda or seltzer.
The Red Priestess
2 oz White Rum
0.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice
0.75 oz Campari
0.5 oz Simple Syrup
Shake and strain into a coupe.
The White Walker
Winter is coming, and so are the White Walkers. To make this you need –
2 oz Vodka
1 oz Kahlua
1 oz Cream
1 cup of ice
Cinnamon
Combine vodka, kahlua and ice in an old-fashioned glass. Pour in cream. Add cinnamon to taste.