The best Speciality Cocktails by whillsjournal on Eaten
Speciality Cocktails
26 reviews
AMAZING
1st BRANDY SWEET OLD FASHIONED
Station No. 06, West Allis
Brandy sweet variety, and ohhhh soooooo goooood. Sweet and fruity with a good bite to it. The perfect balance of ingredients. The bar for Wisconsin Old Fashioned is set by Station No. 06.
2nd PEACH COOLER
Sweetwater Tavern & Grille (Michigan Plaza - Chicago), Chicago
Maker's Mark, peach schnapps, and lemon-lime soda highlight a truly exquisite and sweet cocktail worth every penny and every drop in the glass. Sweet, fruity, and refreshing!
3rd ST. BRADY BEACH DAY
Oak Barrel Public House, Milwaukee
Self described as a play on a Sex on the Beach, this is such a great refreshing cocktail! The peach is the dominant flavor here but I am quite happy by that! Served in a pint glass instead of a cocktail glass, so really worth the money!!!
4th APPLE CRISP MARTINI
The Explorium Brewpub Third Ward, Milwaukee
An incredible rum and apple cider drink flavored with honey, lemon, and cinnamon… this was a refreshing taste of fall in a glass!
5th TWICE SPICED CIDER MULE
Station 1846, Milwaukee
An incredible specialty mule, this sweet and cinnamon flavored apple mule is an immaculate combination of flavors setting a very high bar for the flavored/specialty mules.
6th PERSIAN ICE
Bryant's Cocktail Lounge, Milwaukee
A decadently sweet ice cream drink made from brandy, chocolate, and vanilla ice cream, this was so incredibly smooth and delicious!!! A textural delight just as much as it is a flavorful treat!
7th MCFLY'S MOVING CASTLE
Station No. 06, West Allis
What a fun and sweet drink brimming with refreshing flavor! Frozen shochu, yuzu, apricot, lemon, and peach punch combine for a slushy drink that goes down oh so fast. A remarkable pop-up special!
REALLY GOOD
8th CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE
Bryant's Cocktail Lounge, Milwaukee
This drink was such a treat of brandy, chocolate ice cream, and more chocolate. This was like a boozy tiramisu ice cream drink!
9th FROZEN STRAWBERRY MARGARITA
Superior Grill, New Orleans
A very good salted margarita with a great strawberry flavor packed into the frozen booze experience. Nothing but positives and a great buzz from this!
10th JUNGLE SUN
Robert's Pizza and Dough Company, Chicago
Crisp, clean, refreshing, and fruity, with the perfect punch from the rum!
11th MAPLE OLD FASHIONED
Station 1846, Milwaukee
Whiskey, maple syrup, and bitters. A straight-up and simple combination that is unique and, while I would be hard-pressed to call this an authentic Old Fashioned, it is nonetheless a very good drink.
12th PAPER PLANE
Sorella, Milwaukee
A lemon citrus and fruity cocktail with bourbon and aperol, a nicely sweet but not overpowering cocktail great to start an evening off!
13th ALLIS OLD FASHIONED
Station No. 06, West Allis
A cherry twist on the Wisconsin Old Fashioned, this was a very good drink that I don’t really have any notes on beyond it was really good. A nice balance of sweet and tart, perhaps watered down by too much ice. A special cocktail to celebrate the venue’s 5th anniversary!!!
14th BLUEBERRY LAVENDER LEMONADE
North 48, Cedarburg
A very fruity and refreshing drink, though the combo of lemonade and sprite did overpower the blueberry I was expecting to lead the way instead of take a backseat. Wish there was more per drink though!
15th WISCONSIN OLD FASHIONED
Milwaukee Brat House, Milwaukee
A very good and safe take on the Wisconsin Old Fashioned. Does everything it needs to do.
PRETTY GOOD
16th STRAWBERRY SPIKED LEMONADE
AJ Bombers, Milwaukee
Tasty and smooth, but very run of the mill. Nothing special, but nothing wrong here. Definitely worth it!
17th PEACH COOLER
Bryant's Cocktail Lounge, Milwaukee
A nice and refreshing peach vodka drink that is perfectly fine, but doesn’t excel nor disappoint. Would have liked more peach flavor to come through!
18th AUTUNNO
Sorella, Milwaukee
A rum based drink flavored with pear and root beer bitters, this is a sort of odd drink that’s neither great nor bad, and is perhaps doing too many things at once. Interesting, but middlingly good.
19th TORNADO
Bryant's Cocktail Lounge, Milwaukee
The flavor of this lemon-like cocktail was truly exquisite (and reminiscent of a Mountain Dew Baja Blast without the sliminess of high fructose corn syrup), but it was tragically diluted by the slushee ice shards on top. This drink should have had the flavor concentrated at the bottom mixed with the slush directly to make this a more consistent drink.
20th TOM COLLINS
Station No. 06, West Allis
Maybe not the drink for me, but nothing to complain nor praise here in a well-known cocktail. I would have preferred some sweetness, but that’s a general complaint, not on their execution of the Tom Collins.
21st TITO'S PUNCH
Water Street Brewery, Grafton
Refreshing and went down really easy, but flavors were a bit muted as if diluted (and the ice didn't have time to melt!). Good, but definitely left wanting more.
JUST OK
22nd RASPBERRY MARGARITA
Water Street Brewery, Grafton
This margarita was just flat out missing flavor. Very trace hints of fruitiness that I was really hoping for, was mostly just water and ice.
23rd SAD BOY SUMMER
Station No. 06, West Allis
Weekly slushee at a great venue that unfortunately did disappoint. On paper a strawberry tequila slushie drink is great, but perhaps their addition of rhubarb is what throw this drink off kilter.
NOT FOR ME
24th CAMPFIRE MULE
55 Fahrenheit, New Orleans
There were just too many flavors fighting with each other in this drink. Maple and ginger beer and lemon and chocolate just… didn’t work. It didn’t taste like a mule, nor did it taste like any of the signature ingredients.
25th STRAWBERRY MARGARITA
Asadito, Chicago
Rather muted flavors and really icy, not much to say here.
26th COSMO ROYALE
55 Fahrenheit, New Orleans
This was a fruity disaster of alcohol fumes. I can’t say this was worth drinking in the slightest. Was like drinking a boozy distilled flower. Awful.