5 Tasty Vodka Cocktails (Simple Recipes)

5 Very easy but very delicious vodka cocktails that's easy to make at home. Learn to be a better home bartender with these crowd pleasing cokctails that will impress your friends, family or your date! Everyone should know how to make these perfect vodka drinks

For today's episode we partnered up with Wheatley vodka to bring you Five indispensable vodka cocktails. Like it or not vodka is one of the most popular spirits worldwide, if not the most and although it tends to get a bad wrap in cocktail circles I wanted to show how varied and complex cocktails using vodka can be. So enjoy the video and go forth to make these drinks!

Wheatley has a new competition series called Proof here on YouTube which is video series where bartenders compete to create the best cocktail from a themed basket of ingredients. Think Food Network’s “Chopped,” but for bartenders and cocktails. The cocktails are then judged by a panel of influencers and industry figures—headed by Harlen Wheatley. Here's a link to the series:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXodbQHRlo3Zhw02RWtZF5A

Wheatley vodka was created by Harlen Wheatly Master distiller at the Buffalo Trace distillery. It is a 10x distilled vodka, bottled at 82 proof and is of exceptional quality and smoothness, definitely go check it out!

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Here's The Specs:

Lemon Drop

2oz (60ml) vodka

.25oz (7.5ml) Cointreau

.75oz (22.5ml) Lemon Juice

.75oz (22.5ml) Simple Syrup

Coupe

Bitter Bee

6-8 Mint Leaves

Brown Sugar Cube

2oz (60ml) vodka

.75oz (22.5ml) Lime Juice

.75oz (22.5ml) Honey Syrup

Top Heavy Angostura

Double Old Fashioned

Cosmopolitan

1.5oz (45ml) vodka

.75oz (22.5ml) Lime Juice

.75ml (22.5ml) Cointreau

.75oz (22.5ml) Cranberry Juice

Coupe

Cocktail Culture

2oz (60ml) vodka

.75oz (22.5ml) Noosa Honey Yogurt

.5oz (15ml) Passionfruit Purée

.25oz (7.5ml) Vanilla Syrup

Nick and Nora

Fresh Ingredient Moscow Mule

2oz (60ml) vodka

.75oz (22.5ml) Ginger Syrup

.5oz (15ml) Lime Juice

Collins Glass