Akia Cocktail Lounge
Aloha, and welcome to the Akia Cocktail Lounge. Inside you will find cocktail suggestions, something for everyone, even the kids and designated drivers. We intend to update the list as we discover more new and fun ideas, please E-mail us with any great cocktail ideas and we’ll post em’.
The Something Blue
According to the Victorian saying, "Something old, Something new, Something Borrowed, Something Blue..." every bride should include blue in their wedding day for good luck. You can't get much bluer than this cocktail, although it's something you won't be wearing there just might be some luck in it. The Something Blue is a delicate blue drink that's easy enough to make that it can be served at a reception, shower or rehearsal dinner and it's eye appeal is a perfectly elegant touch to any wedding.
Ingredients:
• 2 oz Hpnotiq
• 2 oz white wine
• 1 oz ginger ale
Preparation:
1. Build the ingredients in a Champagne flute.
2. Serve and toast to a long and happy marriage.
Wedding Belle
Full of fruity flavor, the Wedding Belle is perfect for your smaller, more intimate gatherings like bridal showers and rehearsal dinners. The gin and Dubonnet Rouge also make this cocktail a wonderful aperitif.
Gin and Dubonnet Rouge are the foundation of this extra special cocktail that is enhanced with cherry and orange. Your guests will love this more traditional drink with it's infinite palate.
Ingredients:
• 3/4 oz gin
• 3/4 oz Dubonnet Rouge
• 1/2 oz cherry brandy
• 1/2 oz orange juice
Preparation:
1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Tuxedo
For the groom we have a swanky Tuxedo cocktail. Enjoy it on your last night as a bachelor or share it with your bride on your wedding night. It's a complexly flavored Martini with an interesting and intriguing taste. The Tuxedo is a great Martini for a chic black tie affair. It's very similar to the Imperial, with a little anis liqueur added. You can use anisette rather than the anis liqueur, however the former is much sweeter than the later which may be too much in combination with the maraschino liqueur.
Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
• 1 1/2 oz gin
• 1/4 tsp maraschino liqueur
• 1/4 tsp anis liqueur
• 2 dashes bitters
• maraschino cherry for garnish
Preparation:
1. Pour all ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice.
2. Stir.
3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
4. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
Diamond Martini
From the engagement party to the time the wedding bells ring, the Diamond Martini can fit into any of your nuptial celebrations. By chilling the ingredients along with the glass, this cocktail is sparkling, crisp and clear like the perfect cut diamond. A wonderful variation of a Vodka Martini. The key to this Martini is that both the vodka and cocktail glass are well chilled. Use premium brands of spirits like Martini & Rossi Extra Dry vermouth and Wyborowa vodka.
Ingredients:
• dash of premium dry vermouth
• 1/2 cup premium grain vodka, frozen
• lemon wedge
Preparation:
1. Chill a cocktail glass.
2. Pour the dry vermouth and vodka into the glass.
3. Twist the lemon wedge over the drink.
4. Run the lemon wedge around the rim of the glass.
Wedding Cake
You can have you cake and drink it too. There are two common variations of the Wedding Cake cocktail, which you choose is more a matter of personal taste and what you have on hand. Either one is a wonderful liquid libation with the flavors of the Hawaiian Wedding Cake. One variation uses white creme de cacao and milk while the other uses gin and cream. To further confuse things the drink is like the Daiquiri in the respect that the drink is either shaken and served on the rocks or it's blended. No matter which way you decide to serve it, it's a given that it will be one great drink for your wedding.
Ingredients:
• Recipe 1:
• 3/4 oz gin
• 34 oz Amaretto
• 1/4 oz orange juice
• 1/4 oz pineapple juice
• 1/4 oz cream
Recipe 2:
• 1 1/2 oz Amaretto
• 1/2 oz white creme de cacao
• milk
• pineapple juice
Preparation:
For Recipe 1:
1. Pour the gin, Amaretto, orange juice, pineapple juice and cream in a blender with ice.
2. Blend well.
3. Pour into a hurricane glass.
Recipe 2:
1. Pour the Amaretto, white creme de cacao and equal parts of milk and pineapple juice in a mixing glass filled with ice.
2. Place another glass or shaker tin on top of the glass and shake.
3. Pour the entire contents into a highball or hurricane glass.
Blend either of these recipes with 3/4 cup of ice and serve in a hurricane glass for a frozen cocktail.
Baby Bellini (non-alcoholic)
Style, elegance and none of the alcohol, the Baby Bellini is an excellent mocktail for weddings. It is also very simple and can easily supply an entire wedding reception with a bubbly drink. The Baby Bellini is perfect for elegant entertaining and has the feel of a great Champagne cocktail and the same great taste of the original, but none of the alcohol. As in the Bellini, peach juice or puree can also be used. Serve this drink for brunch, a wedding reception, baby shower or other dry occasion.
Ingredients:
• 2 oz peach nectar
• chilled sparkling cider
Preparation:
1. Pour the peach nectar into a Champagne flute.
2. Slowly add the sparkling cider.
Southern Bride
An elegantly alluring cocktail for every Southern (and northern) Bride, this simple mix of gin, grapefruit juice and grenadine would make a great addition to any wedding party as a toast to the happy couple. This wedding Martini is easy, refreshing and as genteel as the quintessential Southern Bride. With a few shakes of gin, grapefruit and grenadine and a great bridal cocktail is made, perfect for showers, receptions and dinners.
Ingredients:
• 2 1/2 oz gin
• 1 oz grapefruit juice
• dash of grenadine
Preparation:
1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Blushing Bride
A wedding would not be complete without a Champagne toast to the bride and groom. The Blushing Bride is an extremely easy cocktail for just that purpose that adds just a slight amount of fruit flavors to your bubbly. This beautifully blush-colored Champagne cocktail is wonderful for toasting a newlywed couple at their wedding reception. It's also very easy to make and serve to a larger party.
Ingredients:
• 1 oz peach schnapps
• 1 oz grenadine
• 4 oz Champagne
Preparation:
1. Pour the peach schnapps and grenadine into a Champagne flute.
2. Top with Champagne.
