Emmy Awards Cocktails: 12 Drink Recipes To Celebrate TV’s Biggest Night

TV’s biggest night is finally here, and as you prepare to sit back and see if your favorite TV shows will emerge victoriously, make sure you’re celebrating Emmy’s Night properly, with the perfect cocktail for the night’s festivities.

Whether you’re hosting a viewing party for the night’s show or you’re sitting solo, make sure to have at least one of these cocktails on hand for a perfect Emmy Awards.

Countdown to Cuvée

Ingredients:

• 4 ounces Barefoot Bubbly Brut Cuvee
• ½ ounce honey-flavored Whiskey Liqueur
• Lemon peel
• Sugar

Cut a long and wide strip of lemon peel. Dip both sides of the lemon peel into sugar. Then place the sugared lemon peel inside a champagne flute, circling the inside rim. Pour the chilled honey whiskey liqueur and Bubbly Brut Cuvee into the flute through the center of the sugared lemon peel.

Enlightenment

This drink, featuring Ketel One Vodka, is one of four official drinks for Emmy night.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. Ketel One Family-Made Vodka, infused with strawberries
• ¾ oz. Lime juice
• ½ oz. Honey syrup
• 1 oz. Sencha green tea
• 1/16 oz. Chareau liqueur
• Carbonated
• Yuzu and Strawberry pearl

Combine the first five ingredients in a shaker over ice. Shake and strain liquid into carbonating vessel and charge with CO2. Pour into chilled glass over yuzu and strawberry pearls. Tue flowering lavender to the outside of the glass to finish.

Fizzy Zipper

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Stoli Crushed Mango
• 2/3 parts lemon juice
• ¼ part simple syrup
• Tonic water

Combine all ingredients in a glass. Stir, garnish as necessary and serve.

The Golden Girls

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Stoli Strasberi
• 1 part fresh lemon juice
• ½ part simple syrup
• Splash of lemon-lime soda
• Strawberry for garnish

Combine all ingredients in a glass. Stir, garnish as necessary and serve.

The Handmaid's CockTale

Ingredients:

• Coffee Liqueur
• Sparkling Ice Black Raspberry
• Heavy Cream
• Sage Leaf

Mix coffee liqueur and Sparkling Ice Black Raspberry in a cocktail glass. Just before serving, gently add cream and garnish with a sage leaf.

Labyrinth

This intriguing and refreshing cocktail is another official one made especially for Emmy Night.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. Ketel One Family-Made Vodka
• ½ oz. Ancho Reyes chile liqueur
• ½ oz. Lime juice
• 1/2 oz. Agave nectar
• ½ oz. Lemon juice
• ¾ oz. Carrot juice
• Pinch kosher salt
• 5 drops each Bittered Sling Celery Cascade and Moondog bitters

Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Add ice, shake well and strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice. Garnish with seasonal sprigs such as carrot greens, pea shoots, onion bloom or celery leaves.

Radiance

Sparkle like the stars getting trophies with this official cocktail.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. Ketel One Family-Made Vodka
• 1 ½ oz. Verjus
• ½ oz. Rosé syrup
• ¼ oz. Grapefruit liqueur
• 3 dashes Bittered Sling Lem-Marrakech bitters
• 2 oz. Mediterranean tonic
• Orange oils
• Edible flowers

Prepare the rosé syrup by combining equal parts rosé wine with sugar by volume, and stir until dissolved. Combine chilled ingredients in a Collins glass over flower ice spear. Add tonic and stir to integrate. Mist with orange oils, place straw and garnish with edible flowers.

Raspberry Lemon and Lime Ginger Beer Champagne

Ingredients:

• 1/3 oz. Raspberry puree
• 1.5 oz. Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer Mini, Lemon/Lime
• Splash of Limoncello
• 4 oz. Champagne
• Squeeze of Lime Juice
• Fresh Raspberries

Stir Raspberry puree, Brooklyn Crafted and Limoncello in a champagne flute. Top with champagne and a squeeze of lime juice. Garnish with raspberries.

Restoration

This cocktail is the perfect pick-me-up as Emmy night goes on.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. Ketel One Family-Made Vodka
• 1 ½ oz. Cold brew coffee
• ¾ oz. NOLA coffee liqueur
• ½ oz. Honey syrup
• 1 ½ oz. Almond-coconut milk blend
• 3 drops absinthe
• Lemon oil
• Dehydrated lemon round

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into chilled coupe glass. Mist top of cocktail with lemon oil and clip dehydrated lemon round to the rim of the glass to garnish.

Stranger Things Sipper

Ingredients:

• 1 part Wicked White Whiskey
• 2 parts Sparkling Ice Kiwi Strawberry
• Sparkling Ice Black Raspberry/ Sugar Syrup “Blood”
• Kiwi slices

Reduce 1 cup of Sparkling Ice Black Raspberry with 2 tablespoons of white sugar into thick syrup. Drizzle over both interior and exterior of cocktail glass. Chill whiskey and Sparkling Ice Kiwi Strawberry and garnish with 2 kiwi “eyes.”

Westworld Wine Spritzer

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. White wine
• ½ kiwi
• 6 oz. Sparkling Ice Kiwi Strawberry
• Lime twist, for garnish

Add kiwi and wine into a cocktail shaker and muddle lightly. Shake and strain into an ice-filled Collins glass. Fill with Kiwi Strawberry Sparkling Ice. Garnish with a lime twist and serve.

When Ginger Met Ruby

Ingredients:

• 1 1/3 oz. Brockman’s Gin
• 2/3 oz. Ruby Port
• Premium Ginger Ale

Fill a short tumbler with ice cubes. Add Brockman’s Gin and Ruby Port, topping with ginger ale. Garnish with grapefruit zest, fresh ginger and ground nutmeg.