Cocktail Menu: Winter Drinks at the Walnut Creek Yacht Club in Walnut Creek, California

The Walnut Creek Yacht Club is not actually a yacht club nor is it anywhere near water, but you can still get your whistle wet there from the new drinks by Jay Crabb. Check Jay's website for some of these drink recipes.

 

WINTER FAVORITES

Cranberry-Ginger Smash
Fresh cranberries and ginger, Meyer lemon juice, Berentzen German apple liqueur, Bombay gin

Commodore's Hot Toddy
Daron Calvados, Crusoe organic spiced rum, Drambuie, honey syrup, Meyer lemon juice, orange zest, boiling hot water.  Served in an over-sized snifter with crushed pink peppercorn, orange zest, and organic sugar on the rim

Equinox
Aperol, rhubarb bitters, house-made Antilles syrup, fresh blood orange and Meyer lemon juices, Wodka Polish vodka, Prosecco


SAILOR'S CHOICE

Rum, Rhum, Pisco and Cachaca 

Inca Cloud
Encanto Pisco, Rothman & Winter apricot liqueur, fresh lime juice, muddled pineapple, egg white, grapefruit bitters 

Arawack
Batiste rhum blanc, serrano chile pepper, cilantro, pomegranate and lime juices.  *Also goes great with tequila instead of rum.  Try it with Milagro Reposado tequila.

WCYC's 1944 Mai Tai
Appleton V/X and Crusoe organic spiced rums, orgeat, orange curacao, fresh lime juice, Coruba dark rum float

Brazilian Trader
Leblon Cachaca, house-made hibiscus syrup, fresh blood orange and lime juices, Tiki bitters, and A.J. Stephen's ginger beer


VENERABLES

La Louisianne
Redemption Rye whiskey, Benedictine, Carpano Antica Formula vermouth. La Fee Absinthe, Peychaud bitters; served with a flamed orange peel and house-made brandied cherries

French 75
Hayman's Old Tom Gin, fresh lemon juice, sugar, chilled Champagne 


WCYC HOUSE FAVORITES & ORIGINALS


The Green Whisper
Muddled cucumber, house-made green peppercorn syrup, fresh lime juice, La Fee Absinthe, Cap Rock organic gin; served with a crushed gray sea salt/green peppercorn rim 

Zen
Bombay gin, house-made ginger syrup, fresh mint, fresh lime juice

Latin Eyes
House-made chili-citrus syrup, Agavales tequila blanco, fresh lime juice, picasitos on the rim  

Ciello Rosso
Campari, citrus vodka, ruby red grapefruit juice, fresh lemon, fresh basil leaves