10 Cocktails Inspired By Lana Del Rey Lyrics

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Is it us or do a lot of Lana Del Rey songs remind you of drinking? Sure, she ruined Pepsi with the idea that it takes like her vagina but other songs serve as great inspirations for cocktails that might just be perfect now that the weather is warming up. Even her new song (as heard in The Great Gatsby trailer) prompted a cocktail idea or two. If you ever wanted to throw a LDR-themed party, now’s the time to do it!

1. Grown-Up Cherry Cola

Inspiration: My p*ssy tastes like Pepsi Cola / My eyes are wide like cherry pies (“Cola”)

Recipe courtesy of Savvy Eat:

 

Ingredients

• Approximately 2 cups cola
• 1 ounce amaretto
• 2 ounces plain or spiced rum
• 1 maraschino cherry

Instructions

1. Pour some of the cola into an ice cube tray and place in the freezer until hard.

Place two to three cola ice cubes in the bottom of a tumbler.

Add the amaretto and rum, then top off with cola.

Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

2. Blue Velvet Martini

Inspiration: Shoe wore blue velvet / Bluer than velvet was the night (“Blue Velvet”)

Recipe courtesy of Beckabella Style Inspirations:

 

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz. vodka
• 1/4 oz. blue curacao
• Rose’s lime juice

Instructions

1. Stir with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with a slice of lemon.

3. Beer Cocktail (aka The Cure)

Inspiration: Open up a beer / And you say, Get over here (“Video Games”)

Recipe courtesy of Epicurious:

 

Ingredients

• 2 cups ice cubes
• 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
• 10 tablespoons (5 ounces) light lager, such as Miller High Life
• 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce) fresh lemon juice
• 5 (1-inch) pieces peeled fresh ginger cut into thin matchsticks

Instructions

1. Fill 12-ounce cooler (or highball) glass with ice cubes.

Add ginger liqueur, beer, and lemon juice and stir until combined.

Garnish with ginger sticks.

4. Dew-Driver

Inspiration: Diet mountain dew, baby, New York City (“Diet Mountain Dew”)

Recipe courtesy of Bartender App:

 

Ingredients

• 2 shots Vodka
• Ice
• Mountain Dew

Instructions

1. Fill Big Gulp with ice add Vodka and Mountain Dew.

5. Cognac and Vodka

Inspiration: Glass film, perfume, cognac, lilac (“Off To The Races”)

Recipe courtesy of Saveur:

 

Ingredients

• 1½ oz. dry vermouth, such as Noilly Prat
• 1 oz. cognac, such as Ferrand Ambre, Rémy Martin VSOP, or Hennessy Black
• 1 oz. vodka, such as Stolichnaya
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• Twist of lemon peel

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker filled with cracked ice, stir together vermouth, cognac, vodka, and bitters with a bar spoon until chilled, about 15 seconds.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass

Garnish with lemon twist. 

 

6. Cinnamon Toast Cocktail

Inspiration: Now my life is sweet like cinnamon / Like a fucking dream I’m living in (“Radio”)

Recipe courtesy of The Slow Roasted Italian:

 

Ingredients

• 12 ounces Apple Cider, warmed
• 3 ounces Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick, to garnish

Instructions

1. Combine the cinnamon and sugar on a plate that the rim of your glass will fit on.

Wet the rim of your glass with the cider or rum.

Spin the rim of your glass in the cinnamon sugar.   

7. Jim Morrison

Inspiration: No one’s gonna take my soul away / I’m living like Jim Morrison (“Gods & Monsters”)

Recipe courtesy of Bar None Drinks:

 

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Jagermeister
• 1 oz. Root Beer Schnapps 
• Coke

Instructions

1. Mix the Jagermeister and Root Beer Schnapps over ice in an old fashioned glass.

Top up with Coca Cola.

8. Atomic Champagne Cocktail

Inspiration: I don’t pop my cork for every man I see (“Big Spender”)

Recipe courtesy of Esquire:

 

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces vodka
• 1 1/2 ounces brandy
• 1 teaspoon sherry
• 1 1/2 ounces Brut champagne

Instructions

1. Stir the vodka, brandy, and sherry well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass and add 1 1/2 to 2 ounces cold brut champagne.

9. Whiskey Fruit Punch

Inspiration: Could be kissing my fruit punch lips in the bright sunshine (“Lolita”)

Recipe courtesy of About.com:

 

Ingredients

• 2 parts Red Stag by Jim Beam™ Bourbon
• 1 part Strawberry Liqueur
• 0.5 part Passion Fruit Coulis or 1 part Passion Fruit Juice
• Champagne

Instructions

1. Pour all but champagne into a punch bowl with large balls of ice have champagne on ice beside punch bowl.

To serve, ladle mixture into champagne flutes and top with champagne.

Garnish with a strawberry or lemon twist on the rim.

10. Soul Kiss

Inspiration: When I’ve got nothing but my aching soul? (“Young And Beautiful”)

Recipe courtesy of About.com:

 

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz whiskey
• 1 oz dry vermouth
• 3/4 oz orange juice
• 3/4 oz Dubonnet

Instructions

1. Stir all the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

[Limelight]

Looooove it!!!!

And the DMD gif lol

[ExoticFlower]

Gin Fizz

 

(Slow Gin Fizz)

[Creyk]

That blue velvet gif

[drewby]

I need to make all of these and see if they're actually good

[TrailerParkDarling]

lol we used 2 do the dew one back in high school 

 

cocktails inspired by a ~sober girl .. i like it

[Jord]

DEW-DRIVER.

[xNoirx]

Can't wait to try these bad boys!

[Viva]

:crying: :crying: :crying:

 

LOVED THIS THREAD

 

dew driver is the best and I need a little lana to dance twist in my glass

[Noir]

 alcohol's a factooor 

[yayoop]

i'm dying .. i need to make these

[phahad]

let's just take a moment, and appreciate LDR's signature. 

[erink4te]

love these so much! what a great idea

[Divisive Princess]

I don't even drink and I really want to make these.

[Trinity]

I don't even drink and I really want to make these.

Same! They're so creative.

[eyelovelefteye]

It would cost me so much $ to do all of these, but I already have some of the ingredients.

For the Atomic Champagne, it wouldn't make a difference if I used the pink Andre instead of Brut would it?

[Summersault]

This is great. Someday when she has been famous for years, someone needs to open a Lana-themed bar. Just putting it out there for alle the entrepeneurs.

[lauradelxx]

we should all get assigned a drink and get drunk together and chat 

[Guest Dot]

we should all get assigned a drink and get drunk together and chat 

Come on, get drunk, you know you wanna!

I am, you can, won't tell no one about it!

 

Anyways I love this! Very creative and a really good idea for a thread!

 

1. Bel Air Roses (Gagliardo + Grenadine)

 

 

Inspiration: Roses, Bel Air/Take me there...Grenadine, sunshine/Can it fade, sublime? ("Bel Air")

Recipe courtesy of: barnonedrinks

 

Ingredients

 

2 1/2 oz. Vodka

1 1/2 oz. Lemon Juice

1/4 oz. Grenadine syrup

1/2 oz. Galliano

1/2 oz. Rose Water

 

Instructions:

 

Shake well and serve in a cocktail glass.

 

2. Electric Iced Tea

Inspiration: I sing the Body Electric ("Body Electric")

 

Ingredients

• 1/2 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz light rum
• 1/2 oz tequila
• 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz blue curacao
• 1 oz sour mix
• splash of lemon-lime soda

Instructions

1. Build the ingredients in a collins glass.
2. Stir.

3. Black Motorcycle

Inspiration: Put me onto your black motorcycle/Fifty baby doll dress for my "I do" ("Yayo")

 

Ingredients

 

1 1/2 oz tequila

fill with sweet and sour mix

1 1/2 oz rum

1 splash 7-Up® soda

1 1/2 oz vodka

1 1/2 oz gin

1 1/2 oz Black Raspberry liqueur

 

Instructions

 

Build over ice in a collins glass. Fill with sour mix and add a splash of 7-Up.

[lauradelxx]

Come on, get drunk, you know you wanna!

I am, you can, won't tell no one about it!

 

Anyways I love this! Very creative and a really good idea for a thread!

 

1. Bel Air Roses (Gagliardo + Grenadine)

 

 

Inspiration: Roses, Bel Air/Take me there...Grenadine, sunshine/Can it fade, sublime? ("Bel Air")

Recipe courtesy of: barnonedrinks

 

Ingredients

 

2 1/2 oz. Vodka

1 1/2 oz. Lemon Juice

1/4 oz. Grenadine syrup

1/2 oz. Galliano

1/2 oz. Rose Water

 

omfg I love the bel air drink I want to have it but where do I even get Rose Water lol