25 Days of Holiday Drinks, Day 24: You'll Shoot Your Eye Out

Photo: Stuart Mullenberg

Santa might not be bringing you an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle for Christmas tomorrow—after all, you'll shoot your eye out—but at least you can indulge in this spicy and warming cocktail sans any risk of injury at all.

You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
2 oz. aged rum
1/2 oz. Becherovka
1/2 oz. Bénédictine
1/4 oz. cinnamon syrup (recipe here, or use a bottled version, like B.G. Reynolds’)
3 dashes Angostura bitters
Tools: mixing glass, barspoon, strainer
Glass: rocks or cocktail
Garnish: orange twist

Combine all ingredients with ice and stir. Strain into a chilled glass and garnish.

Mathias Simonis for Distil in Milwaukee, Wisconsin