Cocktail Recipes
A collection of cocktails built around the full Brucato lineup, from bright and citrus-driven to spirit-forward and bitter.
These recipes reflect the way we think about amaro: as something to sip simply, or to build with. Classics, variations, and house originals, all rooted in California ingredients and a sense of place.
Ingredients
2 oz Mission Gin
¾ oz Lemon Juice
¾ oz Honey Syrup
Directions
Add all ingredients into Shaker Tin
Add Ice and Shake
Strain into Coupe glass
Garnish with Lemon Twist
Bee's Knees
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Chaparral
1 oz Mission Gin
¾ oz sweet vermouth
Directions
Stir and strain into a small cocktail glass.
Garnish with an orange twist.
Bijou
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Woodlands
2 oz rye whiskey
2 dashes orange bitters
Stir. Serve up.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Black Manhattan
Ingredients
¾ oz Brucato Woodlands
¾ oz scotch
¾ oz sweet vermouth
¾ oz orange juice
½ oz lemon juice
Directions
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a cherry.
Blood & Sand
Ingredients | Makes 4 Servings
8 oz Chaparral Amaro
3 cups of your best hot chocolate (we love Dandelion)
Optional toasted ground cardamom pods
Whipped cream or marshmallow for garnish
Directions
Prepare hot chocolate and mix with Chaparral,
Pour into four warm mugs,
Top with freshly whipped cream or a toasted marshmallow,
Season with freshly toasted and ground green cardamom,
Chaparral Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
2 oz Mission Gin
½ oz Fields Amaro
½ oz dry vermouth
2 slices of cucumber
Small pinch of salt
Directions
Muddle a cucumber with salt in a mixing glass
Add gin, Fields and vermouth, and fill mixing glass with ice and stir
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Garnish with floating cucumber slice
Chin Up
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Orchards
¾ oz white rum
¾ oz lemon juice
½ oz orange liqueur
Directions
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.
Coyote Creek
Ingredients
1½ oz Spring Almond
1 oz El Dorado White Rum
¾ oz Lemon Juice
¼ oz Simple Syrup
Mint Oil 1 dropper
Cucumber 3 Slices
Directions
Add all ingredients into Shaker
Add Ice and Shake
Strain into Nick & Nora glass
Garnish with mint oil drops
Cucamonga
Ingredients
½ oz Brucato Chaparral
1 ½ oz reposado tequila
1 oz blanc vermouth
Directions
Stir and strain into a small cocktail glass.
Garnish with a mint leaf.
Fernwood
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Woodlands
1 oz bourbon
½ oz lemon juice
¼ oz crème de mûre
1 egg white (optional)
Directions
Shake. Serve on the rocks.
Garnish with an orange twist.
Fiddler's Green
Ingredients | Makes 4 Servings
3 cups of hot water
8 oz Fields Amaro
3 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
Lemon slices for garnish
2 oz honey (less for a drier drink)
Directions
Dissolve honey into hot water,
Stir in remaining ingredients,
Pour into four mugs,
Float a lemon slice on top,
For added fun and aroma, stud slice with cloves
Fields Hot Toddy
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Chaparral
1 oz Mission Gin
¾ oz orgeat
½ oz lemon juice
Directions
Shake. Serve on the rocks.
Garnish with lemon and mint.
Friend Place
Ingredients
2 oz Brucato Chaparral
2 oz grapefruit juice
½ oz lime juice
3 oz tonic
Directions
Build in a Collins glass over ice. Stir.
Garnish with a lime wheel.
Gamboa Beach
Ingredients
2 oz Mission Gin
4-6 oz Chilled Tonic Water
½ oz Fields Amaro
Directions
Garnish with mixed fresh herbs or lime wedge
Fill a highball or stemmed water glass with ice
Pour the gin over the ice, top with the chilled tonic water, stir gently
Pour Fields gently on top.
Garnish with your favorite fresh herbs
Gin & Tonic with Fields Float
Ingredients
2 oz Brucato Amaro
5 oz soda
Directions
Build over ice in tall glass
Twist of lemon
Soda water is the classic, or try these combos:
Chaparral + tonic
Woodlands + ginger beer
Orchards + bitter lemon
Highball
(from Paul Harrington)
Ingredients
¾ oz Brucato Orchards
1 ½ oz Mission Gin
½ oz curaçao
½ oz lemon juice
Directions
Shake and strain into a small cocktail glass
Jasmine
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Woodlands
1 oz Scotch
¼ oz coffee liqueur
Directions
Stir and strain over a large ice cube.
Garnish with an orange twist
Junction House
Ingredients
¾ oz Brucato Chaparral
¾ oz Mission Gin
¾ oz maraschino
¾ oz lime juice
Directions
Shake. Serve up.
Sub mezcal for the gin for a deliciously aromatic twist!
Last Word
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Orchards
1 oz Mission Gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
Directions
Stir and strain over ice. Garnish with an orange twist.
Negroni
Ingredients | Makes 4 Servings
3 cups fresh pressed apple cider
8oz Orchards Amaro
Four cinnamon sticks
A few cloves
Two slices of orange peel
Optional dried orange peel for garnish
Directions
Simmer cider with a cinnamon stick, slices of orange peel, and a few cloves for 15 minutes or longer,
Add 8oz Orchards Amaro,
Pour into four mugs and garnish with the cinnamon sticks and dried orange peel
Orchards Spiced Cider
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Orchards
¾ oz Mission Gin
¾ oz dry vermouth
Directions
Stir and strain into a small cocktail glass.
Garnish with a thyme sprig.
Pinnacles Park
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Brucato Fields
1 ½ oz mezcal
2 strips of lemon peel
Large cube of frozen espresso
Directions
Add lemon peel to a mixing glass filled with ice
Add Fields and mezcal, stir well
Strain into a rocks glass over espresso ice cube
Garnish with the second lemon peel
Rolling Fields
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Brucato Amaro
1 shot espresso
Directions
Skake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass
Garnish with coffee beans
Shakerato
Ingredients
1½ oz Bourbon
½ oz Oro y Fierro
½ oz Woodlands Amaro
½ oz Sweet Vermouth
Directions
Add all ingredients into mixing glass, add ice and stir until chilled
Strain into rocks glass on large ice cube, garnish with orange peel
Shotwell
Ingredients
1¼ oz Brandy
1 oz Oro y Fierro
¾ oz Lemon Juice
Directions
Add all ingredients into Shaker
Add Ice and Shake
Strain into Nick & Nora glass
Garnish with sugar rim, orange twist
Sidecar
Ingredients
2½ oz Mission Gin
½ oz Spring Almond
3 drops orange bitters
Directions
Add all ingredients into Mixing Glass
Add Ice and stir until chilled
Strain into Nick & Nora Build:
Garnish speared olives (2) and lemon peel
Spring Almond Martini
Ingredients
2 oz Brucato Amaro
3 oz sparkling wine
1 oz soda
Directions
Build over ice in a big glass. Garnish liberally with citrus
This basic recipe can works with all different types of sparkling wines: try Lambrusco with Woodlands; sparkling cider with Chaparral; or a funky Pet Nat with Orchards.
Spritz
Ingredients
1 oz Vodka
1 oz Peach Puree
½ oz Oro y Fierro
½ oz Spring Almond
½ oz Lemon Juice
3 oz Cava
Directions
Build in spritz glass, fill with ice
Garnish with lemon wheel
Stonefruit Blues Spritz
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Brucato Orchards
1 ½ oz amontillado sherry
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Directions
Stir and strain into a small cocktail glass.
Garnish with lemon twist.
Sycamore Flat
Ingredients
1 oz Brucato Woodlands
1 oz reposado tequila
1 oz olorosso sherry
Directions
Stir and strain into a small cocktail glass.
Garnish with a grapefruit zest.
