Finlandia Vodka long-drink recipes

Ampiainen recipe

Add couple of ice cubes to a highball glass. Measure vodka and banana liqueur. Fill with ginger ale, and stirr couple of times. Garnish with a red cherry. Add a straw and serve.

Arctic Circle recipe

Pour the vodka, lime juice and ginger ale into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Stir, garnish with crushed mint leaves, and serve.

Arctic Kiss recipe

Chill vodka over ice if it's not in your freezer. Pour into a chilled champagne flute and fill with champagne.

Asterix Cocktail recipe

Pour vodka, pisang ambon, sprite and lemon juice over two ice cubes in a highball glass. Stir, and serve.

Avalon recipe

Fill a tall glass with ice.

Layer the Finlandia Vodka, lemon and apple juices, Pisang Ambon, and top up with lemonade. Stir slightly and garnish with a spiralled cucumber skin and a red cherry. The cucumber provides zest and looks attractive.

This drink, created by Timo Haimi, took first prize in the 1991 Finlandia Vodka Long Drink Competition.

Brown-eye recipe

Use any appropriate glass filled with ice cubes, and mix 3 parts of your vodka of choice (preferably not cheap vodka, use Finlandia, Absolut or Grey Goose), with 1 part Coke, or follow the amounts above in a highball or old-fashioned glass.

Cranberry Tart recipe

Pour ice cold cranberry vodka, add ice (the more the better). Top with orange juice and stir gently.

Crazy Finn recipe

Pour all ingredients into a highball glass filled. Stir well. Garnish with a maraschino cherry, and serve.

Essex Slag recipe

Fill glass with ice. Pour apricot brandy in first then fill glass 2/3 with mango juice. Shake the vodka and cranberry together and strain over the top so that you are left with the two layers.

Exotic Finn recipe

Fill a highball glass with cracked ice. Add the first three ingredients and stir. Top up with sprite and garnish with mint leaves, a strawberry, a twist of orange and a straw.

Ole Skeiedal, from Norway, took first place in the long drinks listing of the 1993 Finlandia Vodka International Drinks Competition.

Finlandia Bloody Mary recipe

Shake everything (except celery) with ice; strain into a highball glass. Garnish with a leafy stick of celery.

Finnish Passion recipe

Shake all ingredients, pour into a longdrink glass. Garnish with a boat of orange and red cherry.

Frozen Steppes recipe

Pour ingredients over finely shaven ice in a parfait glass, and stir well. Garnish with a slices of fruit, and serve.

Guarikiten recipe

Shake vodka and pineapple juice in a cocktail shaker. Pour into a collins glass and top with Passoa.

Heartbreaker's Special recipe

Pour vodka into a blender. Add passoa, orange juice and pineapple juice. Add crushed ice and flesh of an orange. Blend well, pour into a collins glass, and serve.

Heat of the Heart recipe

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a highball glass. Float some extra Cointreau on top. Garnish with blackberries and a twist of orange peel, and serve.

Jihad recipe

Combine ingredients in a highball glass, stir, and serve.

Kiss Me Quick recipe

Mix in a highball glass.

Reindeer's Tear recipe

Stir in a highball glass.

Screwdriver Boricua recipe

Mix with ice.