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This New Year's Eve everything will be different.
So for a change you could rethink the choice of drinks.
The classic toast is, of course, champagne.
But on New Year's Eve, which you spend at home anyway, you could try some more complex variants.
So that you don't have to go back to any recipe from the Internet, the ICONIST editorial team reveals nine favorite recipes that have always proven themselves.
We also try to make the selection as easy as possible for you by presenting the drink as comprehensively as possible.
Espresso Martini
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What makes this drink so special?
The espresso martini keeps you awake all evening.
So you survive even the most boring game evenings or discussions with the family.
Not insignificant: served in a stylish martini glass, the drink looks pretty chic.
How much alcohol is in there?
In combination with the sugar and caffeine, the vodka pops a little more than usual.
Those who are not drinkable should stick with a drink.
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What do you need?
A cocktail shaker, a martini glass or a champagne bowl, coffee beans for garnish.
In addition, these ingredients: 30 ml vodka, 30 ml espresso, 30 ml coffee liqueur, ice cubes (makes one glass in total).
How easy is it to prepare?
Very easy.
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake for 30 seconds.
Who might not like this?
Someone who doesn't like coffee or prefers to drink sweet drinks.
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Baileys coffee liqueur, around 11 euros, available here *
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Eggnog is best enjoyed from shot glasses - or from a dessert bowl for several hours
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What makes this drink so special?
Eggnog is so
out of date
that it's cool again.
Several small manufacturers are currently trying to give the drink a new shine with their own egg liqueur variations, including the Rübbelberg and Poli Distillerie brands.
You can also make eggnog yourself pretty easily.
This recipe has been
approved
several times
- and is also ideal as a dessert because the consistency is so creamy:
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How much alcohol is in there?
Overall, not a little.
But you can't drink that much of the egg liqueur.
What do you need?
The following ingredients: six egg yolks, 80 g powdered sugar, 350 ml cream, a vanilla pod, 250 ml white rum. In addition, a measuring cup, a large saucepan and a container for the water bath;
Knife and cutting board as well as a resealable bottle.
How easy is it to prepare?
Not as complicated as you might think.
You should plan around 20 minutes.
Whisk the vanilla pulp, egg yolks and powdered sugar together.
Stir in the cream and rum.
Beat everything over a hot water bath for six to eight minutes, until the mixture is hot and thick, but must not boil.
Fill the finished egg liqueur into bottles.
Who might not like this?
If you don't like custard, you won't like eggnog either.
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Eggnog from Jacopo Poli, around 15 euros, available here *
Pink gin and tonic
What makes this drink so special?
Almost nobody has anything against gin and tonic, which makes it an all-rounder and an absolute cocktail classic.
In the pink version it is still something different.
How much alcohol is in there?
Depending on what the mixing ratio is.
We recommend mixing two parts tonic water with one part gin.
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What do you need?
Not a lot.
In addition to the appropriate ingredients, some ice cream and a grapefruit.
A bulbous glass is suitable for the gin and tonic; it also looks pretty in a decorated whiskey tumbler.
How easy is it to prepare?
Put all ingredients in a glass filled with ice cubes and stir.
Garnish with a grapefruit bowl.
Who might not like this?
The gin and tonic is a safe bet.
But there should also be people who don't like gin - or who have a grapefruit allergy.
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Kyrö Pink Gin, around 27 euros, available here
Lupita Margarita
What makes this drink so special?
Bartender
Bettina Kupsa owns the Hamburg bar “Chug Club”, which was named “Bar of the Year” in 2017, and Kupsa herself was also voted “Hostess of the Year”.
In the “Chug Club” she specializes in agave spirits - such as tequila and mezcal, her cocktails with them are legendary.
Since it is difficult with the drinks in bars, Kupsa has now packed her mixed art in a bottle, the
Lupita Margarita
.
So it's a ready-to-drink cocktail, straight to pour and toast.
The red color is based on hibiscus flowers, the tequila is refined with orange liqueur and lemon.
How much alcohol is in there?
20 percent.
What do you need?
That's the beauty - only the bottle (available from trinkablebnis.de for 25 euros).
And some ice.
How easy is it to prepare?
Very easy.
Open the bottle, pour it, then stir the drink cold on ice or serve in a frosted glass.
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Who might not like this?
It's actually the perfect mix of fruity and sour-tart, hardly anyone can object to that.
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Set of six margarita glasses from Sendez, around 19 euros, available here *
Rainbow cocktail
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What makes this drink so special?
This drink is definitely something for the eye.
While the adults devote themselves to the high-proof, the children usually go away empty-handed - at least when the “Robby Bubble” was sold out again.
How much alcohol is in there?
None at all - but lots of sugar!
What do you need?
Orange juice without pulp (200 ml), sparkling mineral water (100 ml), non-alcoholic blue curacao (2 cl) and pomegranate or raspberry syrup (3 cl).
In addition, the following “hardware” is required: narrow tall glasses, bar spoons and double measuring beakers.
How easy is it to prepare?
You definitely need a very steady hand and it is imperative to observe the correct order when adding the ingredients.
First carefully mix the mineral water with the curacao in a separate container, then pour the orange juice into the glass.
Now it gets tricky: hold the bar spoon across the edge of the glass (curved side up) and then slowly let the syrup run into the juice.
In the last step, add the blue-colored water to the juice - also with the help of the bar spoon - and the rainbow cocktail is ready.
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Who might not like this?
People who think sugar is a figment of hell.
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Alcohol-free Blue Curaçao, around 13 euros, available here *
fire tongs punch
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What makes this drink so special?
Every time a highlight, because on the one hand you never know what is going to happen (have extinguishing water ready), and on the other hand the Feuerzangenbowle is entertaining, not only because it makes you very drunk.
How much alcohol is in there?
Very, very much, because without high percentage alcohol there is no fire.
If you want to pop it, this drink is just the thing.
What do you need?
Pinot Noir (2 liters), orange juice (500 ml), an untreated orange, an untreated lemon, a stick of cinnamon, six cloves, four star anise, a sugar loaf, Stroh 80 Original (for drizzling on the sugar) or another rum with at least 54 percent Alcohol.
You also need a fireproof bowl pot with a matching warmer and sugar pad (fire tongs) as well as long matches and a metal ladle.
How easy is it to prepare?
Very easy when sober.
Lightly squeeze the orange and lemon and cut into slices.
Heat red wine (do not boil) and add the fruit juice, orange juice, fruit slices and spices.
Let it steep a little and then put in the bowl and place on the warmer.
Place the sugar loaf across (!) On the support on the bowl, drizzle with rum and light it with a long match.
If the fire threatens to go out, new rum can be poured over the sugar with a metal ladle (!) - until the whole sugar loaf has dripped into the punch.
Who might not like this?
If you don't love rum or red wine, you should do without it.
Those who want to stay halfway sober should also do without.
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Rum from Stroh, around 20 euros, available here *
Apple Calvados Punch
What makes this drink so special?
With the hot apple punch you can get yourself in the mood on gray New Year's Eve afternoons and bring some fun to the fondue preparation.
(Somehow the sauces always take longer than expected!)
How much alcohol is in there?
So much so that you should rather do all the important tasks of the day before enjoying.
No, seriously: Calvados is high-proof apple brandy
What do you need?
Apple juice, calvados, cinnamon stick, possibly apple slices for decoration.
How easy is it to prepare?
Child's play: pour the ingredients into a saucepan, heat, done.
Who might not like this?
The person does not exist!
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Calvados from Papidoux, around 15 euros, order here *
Bellini
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What makes this drink so special?
Clearly, sparkling alcohol mixed with fruity peach.
That makes the Bellini, which was invented in 1948 in the legendary “Harry's Bar” in Venice, not only a permanent guest at “Boozy Brunch” parties.
It has also become the historic favorite of writers Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, and director Orson Welles.
Because instead of having to decapitate a bottle of sparkling water at noon and drink it straight, the Bellini hides the decadent champagne with its fruitiness in an aperitif suitable for the day.
And the other way around, if you don't want to buy champagne, you can upgrade any Prosecco to a Bellini with homemade peach puree.
How much alcohol is in there?
The glass should be three quarters filled with champagne.
What do you need?
Puree fresh peaches with a sparkling alcohol, so something clear with carbonic acid.
How easy is it to prepare?
Very easy.
First the champagne, then a dash of peach.
Cheers!
Who might not like this?
The drink is reminiscent of vacation, brunch days with friends or the first aperitif that you treat yourself to at the hotel bar when you check in in a strange city.
If a person really doesn't like all of this, then he or she doesn't like Bellini either.
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“Brut Champagner” by Veuve Clicquot, for 42 euros, order here *
High quality sparkling wine
What makes this drink so special?
Sparkling wine is often associated with sweet supermarket products.
The cuvée from the sparkling wine manufacturer Heinz Wagner tastes almost like champagne, but without trying to be one, emphasizes founder Maximilian Wagner.
He has only been leading his own winery for almost five years and thus a family tradition of viticulture into the next generation.
It tastes like a champagne comeback - and really, really good.
How much alcohol is in there?
Slightly so, you could treat yourself to a couple of glasses.
What do you need?
A particularly beautifully shaped champagne flute.
How easy is it to prepare?
Put it in the glass - and enjoy.
But please do not dilute with ice cubes.
Who might not like this?
Beer drinkers?
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Hein Wagner Sekt vintage 2016, for 24 euros, available here
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