Learn to make these tasty signature cocktails for your next holiday party.

You may not be a mixologist, but these signature drinks will have guests convinced you’ve been taking secret bartending lessons. Word to the wise: Leave the fancy bottle spins to the professionals.

1 The Welder

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz Forty Creek Premium Barrel Select Whisky
• 1/2 oz Aperol
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1 oz chili syrup
• 1 chili pepper, for garnish

Directions

Pour the whisky, Aperol, lemon juice and chili syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake well. Strain into an ice-filled lowball glass and top with the chili pepper.

2 Brandy Crusta

Ingredients

• Freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Granulated sugar, for garnish
• 2 oz Hennessy Very Special Cognac
• Splash orange curaçao
• Dash Angostura bitters
• Peel of half a lemon, for garnish

Directions

Prepare a rock glass by moistening the rim with a touch of the lemon juice and dipping it in the sugar. Combine the cognac, curaçao, more lemon juice and the bitters in a shaker. Shake and strain into the glass. Add 1 ice cube and the lemon peel garnish.

3 Jamaican Honey Soother

Ingredients

• 2 parts Appleton Estate Rare Blend 12 Year Old Rum
• 1/4 part honey
• 1/2 part fresh lime juice

Directions: Pour the rum, honey and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a coupette cocktail glass.

4 Dark & Stormy

• 2 oz Chic Choc Spiced Rum
• Ginger beer
• Lime wedge, for garnish

Directions: Fill a highball glass with ice cubes. Add the spiced rum and then top it off with the ginger beer. Stir, and garnish with the lime wedge.