15 Blue Alcoholic Drinks For Any Occasion

When you think of cocktails or mixed drinks, you immediately think of bright and bold colors and of course, a distinct fun flavor, so there are no exceptions to the expectations when it comes to blue alcoholic drinks. Mixed blue alcoholic drinks should be just as tasty as the color suggests, so that’s why most bartenders turn to Blue Curaçao.

What Alcohol Is Blue in Color?

Naturally, no alcohol will be blue in color, however, blue food coloring is added to some liquors to make the end result in a much more appetizing and interesting color. The most common blue liqueur found today is Blue Curaçao.

What Is Blue Curaçao?

Blue Curaçao is a liqueur made from the Laraha citrus fruit and is named after the island the fruit can be found in, Curaçao. It is dyed blue by using food coloring to ensure a bright and colorful cocktail when used in most blue alcoholic drink recipes.

How Blue Curaçao Is Made

Blue Curaçao is made by using the peel of the Lahara fruit. The fruit is cut into pieces and dried for about 5 days out in the sun.

Thereafter, it is placed into a burlap sack along with some herbs and spices and placed in a kettle with ethyl alcohol to distill for a few days. Once distilled, it has a clear color so in order to get that brilliant blue color, food dye needs to be added.

Liquors That Mix Well With Blue Curaçao Alcoholic Drinks

Blue Curaçao has a citrusy flavor, so mixing it with a neutral liquor or a sweeter liquor will yield some delicious drinks

• Tequila – Tequila mixes well with Blue Curaçao and the two liquors complement each other’s profiles.
• Vodka – Blue Curaçao and vodka mix well since vodka has a very neutral taste and won’t influence the Curaçao flavors as much, essentially only increasing the alcohol content.
• Rum – Light rums and even some darker rums work well with Blue Curaçao because of their sweet and subtle flavor, darker rum adds earthy flavors into the mix whilst lighter rums add a basic sweetness to the mix.

15 Blue Alcoholic Drinks For Any Occasion

1. Midnight Kiss

A midnight kiss is a delicately bubbly drink that packs quite a punch, so don’t mistake this drink for a light breakfast drink. It’s quite easily made and the recipe by Restless Chipotle is simple to follow.

Ingredients

• 3 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
• 2 tsp. lemon juice
• Champagne
• Ice for shaking
• Sugar for rimming your champagne flutes

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients except for the champagne into a shaker with ice and shake.
2. Strain into a sugar-rimmed champagne flute and top up with champagne.

2. Blue Monday

Mondays are notoriously known to be blue. So why not make a special cocktail to help put those blues to bed.

A drink fit for a poet, the drink recipe by Lord Byron (not the actual poet, sorry) is one of those blue alcoholic drinks that is so easy to make you have to try it next time you feel like a drink.

Ingredients

• 1 oz. vodka
• 1/2 oz. triple sec
• 1/2 oz. Blue Curaçao
• Ice for shaking
• lemon twist for garnish (optional)

Instructions

1. Add all the ingredients except for your garnish into a shaker with a handful of ice and shake until cold.
2. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and add your garnish.

3. Blue Hawaiian

ACoupleCooks shows us how to make one of the most well-known blue drinks out there, The Blue Hawaiian. It’s as refreshing as a pina colada with a much more complex flavor – without any complex steps, of course.

Ingredients

• 1 oz. white rum
• 1 oz. vodka
• ¾ oz. Blue Curaçao
• ½ oz. lime juice
• ½ oz. lemon juice
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• ½ oz. simple syrup
• Crushed ice, for serving
• Ice cubes, for shaking
• pineapple wedge or cocktail cherry as an optional garnish

Instructions

1. Place all the ingredients except for the crushed ice and your choice of garnish into a shaker with a handful of ice and shake until cold.
2. Strain the mix into a glass filled with crushed ice, and add optional garnish.

4. Chi-Chi

Most variations of the Chi-Chi cocktail don’t call for orange or citrus liqueurs. However, this recipe by TheSpruceEats one of the blue alcoholic drinks that uses Blue Curaçao as their secret weapon in making this the best Chi-Chi cocktail yet.

Ingredients

• 2 oz.s vodka
• 1/2 oz. Blue Curaçao liqueur
• 1/2 oz. cream of coconut
• 1/2 cup cubed pineapple
• 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 cup crushed ice
• Pineapple wedge (optional for garnish)

Instructions

1. Throw all the ingredients, except your garnish, into a blender and blend until smooth.
2. Pour the mixture into a highball or margarita glass and garnish with a pineapple wedge.

5. Blue Lagoon

Liquor.com has a very simple, yet tasty recipe for a blue lagoon cocktail. It can be made with sparkling lemonade for a bubbly drink, or with normal non-sparkling lemonade if you want to follow the recipe exactly as they have it.

Remember if you do decide on sparkling lemonade to add after shaking the other ingredients, else you will have a mess on your hands.

Ingredients

• 1 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
• 4 oz. lemonade
• Lemon wheel or maraschino cherry as an optional garnish
• Crushed ice for serving
• Ice for shaking

Instructions

1. Add the Blue Curaçao, lemonade, and vodka to an ice-filled shaker and shake until cold.
2. Strain into a hurricane glass filled with crushed ice and garnish if you’d like.

6. Royal Blue

BettyCrocker offers us this recipe for a Royal Blue that is very easy to follow, it reminds you of summer with all the citrus flavors in this drink, and with a sugar rim, it feels like you’re drinking it at a fancy restaurant.

Ingredients

• Lime wedge
• Coarse sugar or granulated sugar
• Ice cubes
• ¼ cup cranberry juice
• 1 oz. citron vodka or vodka
• 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
• 1 tbsp. fresh lime juice

Instructions

1. Prepare your martini glass by wetting the rim slightly with lime juice and dipping it in sugar.
2. Shake together the cranberry juice, lime juice, vodka, and Blue Curaçao with some ice in a shaker until chilled.
3. Pour into your sugar-rimmed martini glass and enjoy.

7. Blue Margarita

Triple sec, tequila, and lime juice are usually the stars of any traditional margarita. But TheSpruceEats offers us a twist on this recipe by replacing the triple sec with Blue Curaçao to get a vibrant drink that tastes divine.

Ingredients

• Coarse salt, for optional rim
• 1 1/2 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. Blue Curaçao liqueur
• 1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
• Lime wedge, or orange slice and cherry (optional garnish)

Instructions

1. If you decide to salt rim your glass, do so now by wetting the rim with lime juice and dipping it in coarse salt.
2. Shake all the remaining ingredients over ice in a shaker, excluding the garnish
3. Strain into the salt-rimmed margarita glass and garnish.

8. Blue Train

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The blue train cocktail has a double dose of citrus liqueur by including both Blue Curaçao and Cointreau in the recipe by CrystalMixer. It’s best served in a chilled martini glass.

But you should prepare more than one glass, as you’d probably love another blue train after tasting the first.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz. gin
• 1/2 oz. Cointreau® orange liqueur
• 1/4 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 1 dash of Blue Curaçao liqueur (about 1/2 oz.)

Instructions

1. Shake all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

9. Blue Bayou

Take a trip to the tropical islands with this drink, whilst it is a bit more effort than most other drinks, and you do require a blender, it is well worth your effort. TheSpruceEats mentions that it takes about 5 minutes to make, and you’ll find your tastebuds thanking you.

Ingredients

• 1 cup ice
• 1 1/2 oz. vodka
• 2 oz. grapefruit juice
• 1 oz. ​Blue Curaçao liqueur
• 1/2 cup fresh or canned pineapple chunks
• Pineapple wedge (optional for garnish)

Instructions

1. Blend together all the ingredients except the pineapple wedge meant for garnishing.
2. Pour into a margarita or highball glass and garnish with the pineapple wedge.

10. Sex In The Driveway

Similar to its name companion, sex on the beach, this cocktail recipe by MixThatDrink is a variation on the original drink. Of course, the difference is its stunning vibrant blue color and a slightly different fruit flavor profile.

Ingredients

• 1 oz. peach schnapps
• 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
• 2 oz. vodka (or white rum)
• Sprite or any other lemon-lime soda
• Pineapple wedge or cocktail cherry for garnish (optional)
• Ice for shaking
• Crushed ice to serve

Instructions

1. Place all the spirits and liqueurs into a shaker with ice and shake until cold.
2. Strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice.
3. Top off the drink with sprite or lemon-lime soda and garnish if you’d like.

11. The Blue Jelly Fish

The blue jellyfish is not a cocktail, but rather a very interesting shot by TipsyBartender. This drink requires you to layer alcohol and make droplets on top, to form the ‘jellyfish’. It’s best served in front of your guests so they can see the magic in this shot.

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Vodka
• 1 oz. Blue Curaçao
• 1 oz. Sambuca
• Half & Half for dropping (can be substituted with coconut cream)

Instructions

1. Fill your glass with the Blue Curaçao first, and then layer your vodka on top
2. Add the last layer of sambuca gently, breaking the fall with the back of a spoon if needed.
3. Drop Half & Half into the glass using a dropper and watch the cool effect it makes in the alcohol below.

12. Aqua Pearl

Aqua pearl is one of those blue alcoholic drinks that is not only sophisticated but also tasty. Bon Appetit uses soursop juice in their recipe which makes two servings, but you can use pineapple juice as a substitute.

The orchid is an optional but beautiful garnish and works well if you have a tropical-themed party.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup soursop (guanabana) juice* or pineapple juice
• 6 tbsp. gin
• 4 tsp. fresh lemon juice
• 4 tsp. Simple Syrup
• 1 1/2 tsp. Blue Curaçao liqueur
• 4 dashes of angostura bitters
• Ice for shaking
• Unsprayed orchids (optional garnish)

Instructions

1. Shake all the ingredients except the garnish together in a shaker.
2. Serve in martini glasses, and top with the orchid if desired.

13. Blue Long Island Iced Tea

If you think the original long island iced tea isn’t boozy enough, try this recipe by A Couple Cooks. Swopping the normal orange liqueur for Blue Curaçao and swopping the cola for ginger ale makes for a beautiful and delicious cocktail, just as strong as the original recipe.

Ingredients

• ½ oz. vodka
• ½ oz. tequila
• 3 to 5 oz. ginger ale
• ½ oz. white rum
• ½ oz. gin
• Ice and lemon wedge for serving
• ½ oz. Blue Curaçao
• 1 oz. lemon juice

Instructions

1. Add all the ingredients except for the ginger ale into a highball glass.
2. Top off whatever space is left in the glass with ginger ale, saving a bit of space for ice.
3. Add ice and lemon and enjoy.

14. Blue Ricardo

Imbibe has the perfect pick-me-up cocktail, and it’s the Blue Ricardo. Another tropical drink that has some pineapple, citrus, and coconut flavors mixed in, it’s a great new alternative to a pina colada.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz. white rum
• 1/2 oz. coconut syrup
• 1/2 oz. passionfruit syrup
• 3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 oz. pineapple juice
• Blue curaçao

Instructions

1. Shake all the ingredients except the Blue Curaçao together with some crushed ice in a shaker for a few seconds.
2. Pour out everything into a tall glass, including the crushed ice, and top off with a generous amount of Blue Curaçao to achieve a stunning blue color.

15. Frost Bite

Perhaps the name of this cocktail came about because those who enjoyed it, drank it so fast because it tastes so good, that they got frostbite. TipsyBartender has the best recipe to make this dessert-like tequila cocktail.

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Tequila
• 1 oz. Creme de Cacao
• 1 1/2 oz. Blue Curaçao
• Splash Half & Half
• Silver sugar (for an optional rim)
• Cherry (optional for garnish)

Instructions

1. Rim your glass with silver sugar (normal sugar can be used if you don’t have silver) and set it aside.
2. Mix the tequila, creme de cacao, and Blue Curaçao together in a shaker over ice
3. Strain the mixture into the sugar-rimmed glass and top with a splash of half & half.
4. Garnish with a cherry.

Blue Alcoholic Drinks FAQs

What Are Some Blue Alcoholic Drinks in a Bottle?

Many blue alcoholic bottled drinks are available. These include some spirits and liqueurs that are blue in the bottle before they get mixed into delicious cocktails. Some known brands are :

• Blue Curaçao
• Bombay Sapphire Gin
• Luc Belaire Bleu cuvée

What Does Blue Curaçao Taste Like?

Blue Curaçao has a taste similar to Triple Sec, a little bitter, a little sweet, and a distinct citrus flavor.

Why Is Curaçao Dyed Blue?

It is dyed blue to give the cocktail it is used in, a distinctive blue color. Its origins as to why it was dyed blue are murky. B

ut distillers most likely dye the liquor so they can create memorable blue alcoholic drinks and maximize branding by becoming famously known as the ‘blue drink’.

What Is a Good Substitute for Blue Curaçao in Alcoholic Drinks?

Blue Curaçao is a unique flavor, but most orange liqueurs can take its place in cocktails. Cointreau, a spiced orange liqueur, is commonly used as a replacement for Blue Curaçao.

Blue Alcoholic Drinks Conclusion

Mixing fancy blue alcoholic drinks is easier done than said. Blue Curaçao is the best blue liqueur to use in any blue-colored cocktail to create a stunning effect. Cocktails usually go hand in hand with bright colors, so using blue in your drinks will definitely turn some heads, and using a tasty liqueur like Blue Curaçao it will make your guests come back for more.