Thursday nights at Southside Tea Room in Morningside now revolve around keeping toasty with hot toddies, boardgames and blankets, with this winter favourite made on the den’s very own spiced rum. At Junk Bar in Ashgrove you can sip on the Winter Blanket – a hot blend of steamed cranberry juice, Hendrick’s Gin and an earl grey tea bag, served in a teacup and garnished with a slice of lemon and a cube of sugar.

The winter menu at The Bowery in Fortitude Valley is sporting three warming concoctions, including a Winter Dark & Stormy crafted from Havana Club Especial, vanilla-infused palm syrup, apple juice, ginger beer and bitters and served warm. A Bowery Hot Buttered Rum is also on the cards made with The Kraken Spiced Rum, Pedro Ximinez Sherry and spiced butter, as well as The Saint Bernard made from Martell VSOP cognac, raisin demerara syrup, maple syrup and cream.

If you mosey a little further down Ann Street to Fourth Wall, check out the new drinks range dubbed Tea for Two – a series of hot cocktails served in teapots and designed to share. This collection of beverages includes An Apple A Day – Rekorderlig Apple Cider, cassis, vodka and whisky and orange bitters.

Cobbler in West End is serving up a hot number entitled My Precious – hinting to both a traditional hot toddy and buttered rum, but switching the liquor of choice to gin. In the My Precious, Hendrick’s Gin is mixed with Dom Benedictine liqueur, butter, lemon and a spiced honey made from tonka beans, allspice, Cyprus cinnamon and coriander seeds.

The Crosstown Eating House in Woolloongabba is serving a Winter Julep made on a bourbon base with brown sugar syrup, hot peppermint tea and fresh mint, while neighbouring Canvas makes a Zacapa Blazer by mixing Zacapa rum, the house date syrup, oloroso sherry and chocolate bitters, setting the liquid alight and passing it between two cups to aerate.

Hidden den The Walrus Club at Toowong is a keeping things cosy with ‘The Dr. Hendricks and The Thermo-molecular Coconut Stuff’ cocktail (aka hot gin punch) served in teacups and saucers.

The Lark Food + Drink at Paddington has fashioned a Hendrick’s hot gin punch, a hot buttered rum and a Blazer consisting of cognac, sugar, orange rind and bitters, which is served warm with the aid of a little fire. Bitter Suite in New Farm has also put together hot buttered rum and mulled wine recipes for the cooler season, with a few English dark and malty beers also on hand to keep you toasty.

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