The best Speciality Cocktails by whillsjournal on Eaten
Speciality Cocktails
34 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 THE PB&J
The Stillery - Grafton, Grafton
An incredible peanut butter whiskey cocktail with a fruity punch that absolutely makes this taste like a boozy comfort sandwich!
7th 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!
8th 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
9th 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!
10th CRANBERRY APPLE MULE
B&C Barbeque, Wichita
A really good specialty mule with a balanced blend of sweet and bitter! Super smooth and just a touch of bite from the booze, went down super fast!
11th PATAGONIA PUNCH
La Masa Empanada Bar, Milwaukee
A very sweet, smooth, and fruity cocktail with a combination of orange and grapefruit liqueurs. A bit watered down from too much ice, but a nice seasonal drink!
12th 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!
13th JUNGLE SUN
Robert's Pizza and Dough Company, Chicago
Crisp, clean, refreshing, and fruity, with the perfect punch from the rum!
14th 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.
15th AUTUMN HARVEST
Sorella, Milwaukee
A lovely and fruity combination of cherry, cranberry, and other misc. fruit flavors in a brandy-based cocktail!
16th WICHARITA
B&C Barbeque, Wichita
A nice and sweet cherry margarita! Just a hint of peach flavor rounds this out nicely, but I would have preferred this traditionally blended instead of on the rocks.
17th 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!
18th 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!!!
19th 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!
20th 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
21st STRAWBERRY SPIKED LEMONADE
AJ Bombers, Milwaukee
Tasty and smooth, but very run of the mill. Nothing special, but nothing wrong here. Definitely worth it!
22nd 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!
23rd STRAWBERRY EL CHEAPO
BelAir Cantina, Wauwatosa
A nice strawberry margarita that does everything it should! A nice salted rim helps bring out the flavors here further, but nothing special in the grand scheme of things.
24th BOURBON BLACKBERRY LEMONADE
Station 1846, Milwaukee
A balanced cocktail between sweet and bitter, but perhaps just a little too odd to be considered really good. A touch too much going on, and almost drowned out by the massive ice cube.
25th SPIKED PEACH LEMONADE
Buffalo Wild Wings, Oshkosh
A pretty well-balanced drink between sweet and sour, and a nice blend of peach and lemon flavors that slightly clash, but works overall.
26th 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.
27th 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.
JUST OK
28th 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.
29th 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.
30th 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.