Heering Cherry Competition - See all 2025 entries
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Obscura
Taste: sweet, canned cherries, coffee, red fruit, raisins
Cheery Time in New York
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Christmas Tipple
Boozy with a velvety sweet creaminess & beautiful notes of cheery followed by hints of vanilla and cinnamon spice
Rye Hard
Boozy, but very easy drinking cocktail. The sweetness of the cherries from Cherry Heering connect through the herbalness of the liqueur with the Benedictine
Cherry Cola
Reminds me of Coca-Cola polar bears and christmas.
PedeJul
My aim was to create a cocktail that could have been made even at the time Cherry Heering was founded, possibly for Christmas. Even if the modern version
Heer Me Out
Boozy, not too sweet, well-balanced. I used bottled-in-bond Rittenhouse rye (100 proof) and Wild Turkey 101 bourbon (101 proof), which makes for a delicious
Fezziwig
Created to compete with my bar tender daughter after I encouraged her to take part in the Cherry Heering cocktail competition. Named after a character
Cereza Navidad
A high ball created to be refreshing and also rich and deep with flavor. The cherry heering with the agave syrup creates a heavy texture that is sweet
Jingle Jungle Kristmas Krampus
The Cherry Herring is the backbone of this cocktail with it's deep fruity and almondy notes making it a perfect ingredient for a tiki style cocktail. The
Bonded harmony
An obsession with the remembering the Maine as well as the obsession with Asian ingredients has taken the ethos of the cocktail and leaning more into the
Cherry & Snow
Indulgent, Creamy, hints of Popcorn and Almond with a big punch of Cherry Fruit.
Merry Cherry Christmas, Paloma
We accepted our host's challenge to tweak our previous Herring Cherry competition recipe for our entry. The result is a dusky pink and bitter-sweet refresher
Sleigh All Day Daiquiri
All I want for Christmas is my two favorite cocktails: the Negroni and the Daiquiri. For me it has always been the classic cocktails that couldn't be more
An Old Fashioned Wisconsin Christmas
I went to college at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse and a Wisconsin Old -Fashioned (called simply an Old -Fashioned in state) is the first cocktail
Wiseman's Garnet
Imagine the flavours of a Christmas fruit cake - rich cherry, citrus peel, warm spice, and boozy depth
