This delicious drink takes a little bit of prep work but it’s well worth it. The star of the show is the compound butter and I would recommend making this at home rather than at camp. To make this drink you’ll need to boil some water, and while that’s going add a tablespoon or so of the butter to your mug along with the rum and heavy cream. Pour a little of the boiling water into your mug, stirring to start melting the butter, then top off with more boiling water.

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Ingredients: (1 serving)
2 oz rum
1 Tbs compound butter
1 Tbs heavy cream

Compound butter
1 stick butter (room temperature) 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp ground ginger

A favorite of Wayne and Garth (party on!) this drink is also super simple to make. You’ll need to boil some water, and while that’s going add your whiskey, honey, cinnamon stick and a squeeze of lemon to your mug. Top with boiling water and enjoy.

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Ingredients: (1 serving)
2 oz whiskey
1 tsp honey
1 lemon
1 cinnamon stick
Lemon wedge

Our version of this well-known hot beverage is a little less traditional but super easy to throw together when you’re camping and you don’t want to bring the spice cabinet. All you need to do is heat the ingredients together slowly but don’t bring to a full blown boil - you don’t want to cook out the alcohol. Grab a mug and drink up! Oh, and pro tip, make sure you have a wine opener in your camping gear. Or buy wine with a twist top.

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Ingredients: (4 servings)
1 bottle red wine
12 oz (1.5 cups) apple juice
3 cinnamon sticks

Other additional traditional ingredients you could add include orange slices, star anise, cloves and honey.

This drink is very creamy with the RumChata so you could swap that out with peppermint Schnapps or some other flavored alcohol of your choice. To make the white hot chocolate base, you’ll need to heat together the milk, chocolate, vanilla and salt to just below boiling. Don’t walk away or you may scald the milk. Once that’s heated through just add that to your mug with the booze.

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Ingredients: (makes 4 servings)
3 cups milk (any kind)
4 oz white chocolate
½ tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
2 oz Peppermint RumChata / Peppermint Smirnoff / Peppermint Schnapps

We discovered this drink on a winter weekend getaway to Leavenworth Washington. It’s a Bavarian themed town in central Washington and if you ever get the chance to visit, do it! Anyway, if you like caramel apples and whiskey this drink is for you. It’s easy to make, and you could probably get away with only using one of the whiskey’s listed below. Just heat the apple juice to your desired temperature and add it to your mug with the whiskey. Top with whipped cream.

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Ingredients: (1 serving)
1 oz salted caramel apple whiskey
1 oz apple whiskey
½ - 1 cup apple juice
Top with whipped cream

This is the backpackers version of the Salted Caramel Apple Whiskey drink. Matt and his friends enjoyed this on one of their winter hike-in camping trips. You basically make a packet of spiced apple cider according to the directions and add in your whiskey of choice.

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Ingredients: (1 serving)
2 oz whiskey
1 packet apple cider