How To Make A Honolulu Cocktail

For your next luau, you will certainly want to know how to make a Honolulu cocktail. Just thinking about it brings visions of the beach, the waves, the sand, palm trees and Hawaiian music. Oh yes, back to the cocktail. It is a gin based cocktail that has a couple of variations.

For this version of the Honolulu Cocktail, the following ingredients and items are needed.

• Gin
• Pineapple juice
• Fresh Orange juice
• Lemon juicethe
• Simple syrup
• Agnostura Bitters
• Ice
• Lemon peel for garnish
• Shaker
• Strainer
• Cocktail glass

To properly prepare the Honolulu Cocktail, just follow these simple steps.

1. Put a scoop of ice in the shaker
2. Add 2 oz Gin, ½ oz pineapple juice, ½ oz fresh orange juice, ¼ oz lemon juice, ¼ oz simple syrup, and small dash of Agnostura Bitters
3. Shake the contents in the shaker slowly, to the count of ten.
4. Pour into a sugar-rimmed cocktail glass
5. Use a lemon rind twist for the garnish

The other variation is called Honolulu Cocktail #2. Here are the ingredients needed.

• Gin
• Benedictine herbal liqueur
• Maraschino liqueur

Follow the next steps to mix the cocktail.

1. Into the mixing glass add scoop of ice
2. Add ¾ oz Gin, ¾ oz Benedictine herbal liqueur, and ¾ oz Maraschino liqueur
3. Stir all of the ingredients in the ice
4. Strain into a cocktail glass
5. Garnish the Honolulu cocktail with a lemon rind twist

So, grab your beach chair, go sit under the hut and enjoy the Honolulu cocktail. After a few sips of this, the vision of an island sunset becomes even more vivid