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13 YouTube Bartenders Favorite Drinks in 2022

ByCarl BuschJan 9, 2023Updated May 27, 2026Bar setup

2022 is gone in the blink of an eye, and here we are in 2023 already

2022 is gone in the blink of an eye, and here we are in 2023 already. So many drinks have been made here at Alchemix Bar, and many more by other YouTube Bartenders.

We have reached out to some of our friends on YouTube and asked what their favorite cocktails of 2022 were.

Some are originals, some are modern classic cocktails, and even classic drinks.

We appreciate each of these YouTube bartenders taking their time out and helping us with this list.

We have left links to each of their YouTube and Instagram accounts, so if you don't follow them, please do and let them know Alchemix Bar sent you.

YouTube Bartenders Favorite Drinks

Favorite Cocktail - Bramble

"I gotta say the first drink to come to mind was the Bramble. When we made the video I had forgotten how much I liked it - and it became my unofficial drink of the summer. Even got a little sad when the weather started cooling off because I wanted to keep drinking them 😂"

Favorite cocktail - Bitter Grog

"It’s a cocktail I created specifically for me. I came up with it based on my current palate, that included some current trendy ingredients, and wanting to create a cocktail that hit that intersection of sour, sweet, and bitter in a simple easy to replicate format."

Favorite Cocktail - Bullet Train to Iowa

"This was my favorite cocktail I created in 2022. It has many layers of passion built into it; music, old-fashioned, and mixing flavor profiles."

Favorite Cocktail - Apricot BLVD

"Well here’s the thing. I’m a sucker for spirit forward cocktails. That’s what I have 90% of the time. I also get tired of the classics sometimes because well… I drink them quite often.

I also like to focus on the recipes not including long prep time but that a bit limitating. So when I come up a new recipe that taste completely new with ingredients we have in most home bars, it as a little « je ne sais quoi » for me.

The Apricot BLVD was exactly that. Also, the specs on paper doesn’t really work. It seems sweet, like the flavors are going all directions, but it truly works. It’s bold, fresh, fruity and yummy. 😋

So I abused of it until I ran out of Benedictine. I truly love this drink and I think it’s great for anyone who hate to dislike Fernet because I think it has that potential of making those linking it’s falloir profile."

Favorite Cocktail - Base Camp

"Reason I like it? Straightforward, easy to make, classic in style and attainable."

Favorite Cocktail - The HighFall

"Simply because I like Highballs in general and I like this combination of flavors."

Favorite Cocktail - Trinidad Especial

The “new” drink I enjoyed in 2022 is a Trinidad Especial. It was created by an Italian Bartender back in 2008. It’s awesome because it uses 1 full oz. of Angostura bitters. I really enjoyed its burst of flavors of baking spices in a sour cocktail.

It also was the drink the inspired the creation of the more famous Trinidad Sour the year later. Giuseppe Gonzalez of New York’s Clover Club Bar would create a modern classic, the Trinidad Sour, using this drink as his jumping off point.

Favorite Cocktail - Key Lime Pie

My favorite cocktail of 2022 has to be the Key Lime Pie from Double Chicken Please in NYC.

It was a cocktail that tasted exactly like Key Lime Pie. And we got it with a cocktail called "Cold Pizza" that tasted exactly like cold Pizza.

It was weird, it pushed the boundaries of what a cocktail can be, and it challenged me.

Favorite Cocktail - S'mores Old Fashioned

Favorite Cocktail - Winter Mezcal Mule

"Inspired by Vino’s winter mule video… but I swapped the vodka for mezcal because all year, I’ve been obsessed with Mezcal Mules!"

Favorite Cocktail - Irish Coffee

"I’d say the Irish Coffee was my favourite discovery.. I’ve had it before but never a decent one.. revisited it and damn, I’ve been missing out all these years! 😂

Not necessarily my favourite drink.. but my greatest rediscovery.. 🤔"

Favorite Cocktail - Sunflower

I'm going to have to go with the "Sunflower". When Russia invaded Ukraine, I found several ways to show my support for the Ukrainians. This cocktail was one of them. This was a special video for me as well!!

Favorite Cocktail - Coconut Willie

"This summer I unearthed a long lost NYC tropical cocktail and while it wasn't necessarily my favorite, I loved it and it was probably my favorite experience discovering, mixing and drinking a cocktail."

Anders - Anders Erickson

Andy - Easy Tiki Drinks

Carl - Carl Busch

Jean-félix - Truffles on the Rocks

Johan - WhiskeySugarBitters

Kevin - Cocktail Time with Kevin Kos

Levio - Master Your Glass

Lui - Lui Fernandes

Riley - Alchemix Bar

Rob - Rob's Home Bar

Steve - Steve the Bartender

Tim - The Spirit of the Cocktail

Vino - 62nd Cocktails

Bramble Recipe

Bitter Grog Recipe

Bullet Train to Iowa Recipe

Apricot BLVD Recipe

Base Camp Recipe

The HighFall Recipe

Trinidad Especial Recipe

Key Lime Pie Ingredients

S'mores Old Fashioned Recipe

Winter Mezcal Mule Recipe

Irish Coffee Recipe

Sunflower Recipe

Coconut Willie Recipe

  1. Anders - Anders Erickson Favorite Cocktail - Bramble "I gotta say the first drink to come to mind was the Bramble. When we made the video I had forgotten how much I liked it - and it became my unofficial drink of the summer. Even got a little sad when the weather started cooling off because I wanted to keep drinking them 😂" Bramble Recipe 1.5 ounces The Botanist Islay Dry Gin
  2. .75 ounce Fresh Lemon Juice
  3. .5 ounce semi-rich simple syrup (1.5:1 sugar:water)
  4. .5 ounce Combier Crème de Mûre (float)
  5. Lemon wheel and blackberries for garnish
  6. Add the gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup into a shaking tin.
  7. Add ice.
  8. Shake for 8 - 10 seconds.
  9. Fill a low ball glass half way with crushed ice.
  10. Strain cocktail over the ice.
  11. Top off with more crushed ice.
  12. Float the rème de Mûre over the top of the cocktail.
  13. Garnish.
  14. Add all of the ingredients into a shaking tin.
  15. Add pebble ice.
  16. Whip shake for 8 - 10 seconds.
  17. In a Double Rocks Glass, dirty dump your cocktail.
  18. Top off with crushed ice.
  19. Garnish with a bouquet of mint.
  20. Add a straw.
  21. Add syrup and bitters into a Double Rocks Glass.
  22. Add a large ice cube.
  23. Add the Ancho Reyes and bourbon.
  24. Stir slightly for 10 seconds.
  25. Express an orange peel and place inside cocktail.
  26. Build this cocktail right into a highball glass.
  27. Give the mint leaves a little slap and place in the bottom of your glass.
  28. Add the reminder of the ingredients into your glass.
  29. Fill your glass half way up with crushed ice.
  30. Take a bar spoon and slightly churn the drink while slightly pressing on the mint leaves.
  31. Fill the glass the rest of the way up with more crushed ice.
  32. Garnish with a mint bouquet.
  33. Place a straw right next to the mint bouquet. This help add a great amaora with sipping on your cocktail.
  34. Add all of the ingredients in a mixing glass.
  35. Add ice cubes.
  36. Stir for 20 seconds.
  37. Strain over a large ice cube in a Double Rocks Glass.
  38. Garnish with a lemon twist.
  39. Combine all ingredients into glass container.
  40. Pour when ready into a chilled soda siphon or a cream whipper and charge it with a CO2 cartridge.
  41. Shake the whipper. This helps the gas carbonate the entire drink.
  42. Carefully release the gas before opening.
  43. Pour over an ice sphere in a chilled highball glass.
  44. Garnish with a single pear wedge.
  45. Combine all ingredients into a shaker
  46. Add ice.
  47. Shake for 10-12 seconds
  48. Double strain into a cocktail coupe.
  49. Garnish with a lime peel
  50. Add syrup and bitters in a Double Rocks Glass.
  51. Add 1 large ice cube.
  52. Add your bourbon.
  53. Stir the cocktail for 8 seconds.
  54. Use a smoke topper and smoke the cocktail.
  55. Roast a marshmallow and place over the cocktail.
  56. Add all of your ingredients in to copper mug full of ice.
  57. Slightly stir.
  58. Garnish with fresh cranberries, lemon wedge and a sprig of rosemary.
  59. Pour hot water in your coffee glassware. This will temper your glass to keep the drink hot longer.
  60. Pour in syrup, coffee, and whiskey.
  61. Float the heavy cream on top of the cocktail.
  62. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, except absinthe.
  63. Shake for 10-12 seconds
  64. Whip shake.
  65. Serve up in an Absinthe rinsed, chilled cocktail glass.
  66. Dehydrated lemon wheel garnish.
  67. Fill your shaking tin with all of the ingredients.
  68. Add a small amount of crushed ice.
  69. Whip shake.
  70. Pour into an empty coconut shell or a hurricane glass.
  71. Fill up with crushed ice.
  72. Garnish with a pineapple leaf and dehydrated pineapple slice.