MELON CRUSH COCKTAIL
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Bacardi Maestro Rum
1 oz (30 ml) Bols Melon Liqueur
¾ oz (22 ml) fresh lime juice
8 green grapes, plus extra for garnish, optional
1 melon slice, for garnish, optional
Instructions
- Place grapes in a cocktail shaker and muddle well. Combine rum, melon liqueur and lime juice and shake with ice until very cold. Double strain over new ice in a collins glass and garnish with either a slice of melon or grapes.
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GRASSHOPPER
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) McGuinness Crème de Menthe
1 oz (30 ml) McGuinness Crème de Cacao
2 oz (60 ml) cream (half & half)
fresh mint, for garnish
Instructions
- Combine crème de menthe, crème de cacao and cream in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously with ice and double strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with a mint tip.
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BLUSHING BRIDE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Chambord
1 oz (30 ml) Tanqueray Gin
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) Simple Syrup (1:1)
3 to 4 oz (90 to 125 ml) soda water
Instructions
- Build in a Collins glass, first adding the Chambord, followed by cubed ice. Next, combine the gin, lemon and simple syrup in the glass and top with soda water.
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CATCH THE BOUQUET
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Sid’s Vodka
½ oz (15 ml) Triple Sec
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
8 to 10 red grapes, reserve a couple for garnish
¼ tsp (1 ml) orange flower water
lemon twist, for garnish
Instructions
- Muddle grapes in a shaker tin. Combine remaining ingredients in shaker with ice. Shake well and fine strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with lemon twist.
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JAMES FRANCO
Ingredients
Serves 1
2 oz (60 ml) Jameson Crested Irish whiskey
½ oz (15 ml) Montenegro Amaro Italiano
¼ oz (7 ml) Frangelico
2 dashes Pineapple Express Bitters
pineapple fronds, for garnish
Instructions
- Add all ingredients into mixing glass. Add ice and stir. Strain over large ice into an Old- Fashioned glass. Garnish with pineapple fronds.
- To make PINEAPPLE EXPRESS BITTERS: C ombine equal parts Ms. Better Bitters Pineapple, Star Anise and The Apothecary 'The Darkness' Cacao Coffee Bitters.
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HARVEST SUN
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Suntory Toki Japanese whisky
½ oz (15 ml) Chartreuse
1 oz (30 ml) Red Capsicum Juice
½ oz (15 ml) orange juice
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) Simple Syrup
edible flower, for garnish
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a shaking tin. Add ice and shake well. Strain over crushed ice into a snifter glass. Garnish with an edible flower.
- To make RED CAPSICUM JUICE: Rinse and dice red bell peppers. Juice and fine strain to remove any pulp.
- To make SIMPLE SYRUP: Mix equal parts sugar and water.
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BAD HOMBRE
Ingredients
Serves 1
4 slices jalapeño, (save 1 for garnish)
1½ oz (45 ml) Olmeca Altos Plata tequila
½ oz (15 ml) Grand Marnier
1 oz (30 ml) lime juice
½ oz (15 ml) egg white
½ oz (15 ml) agave syrup
Himalayan pink salt and Hawaiian
black salt, for garnish
Instructions
- In a shaker tin with ice, combine 3 jalapeño slices, tequila, Grand Marnier, lime juice, egg whites and agave syrup. Shake vigorously and double strain over ice in a rocks glass partially rimmed with Himalayan and Hawaiian black salt mix. Garnish with a single jalapeño slice.
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PLUM BLOSSOM
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) St-Germain elderflower liqueur
1 oz (30 ml) plum wine, preferably Nakano Umé
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
2 oz (60 ml) sparkling wine
long lemon zest, for garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing glass with ice, stir St-Germain, plum wine and lemon juice. Strain into a Champagne flute and top with sparkling wine. Garnish with a long coil of lemon zest.
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ROSA AHUMADO
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Jaral De Berrio mezcal
½ oz (15 ml) Chambord
1 barspoon Rose Honey Syrup
5 dashes lemon bitters
dried rosebuds, for garnish
wide lemon zest, for garnish
rose water, for garnish
Instructions
- Stir first 4 ingredients on ice for 30 seconds. Strain over ice cubes in a rocks glass. Garnish with dried rosebuds and wide lemon zest with oils expelled over the drink. Finish with a spray of rose water.
- To make ROSE HONEY SYRUP: Heat 1 cup (250 ml) water to boil, remove from heat, add 10 dried rosebuds. Let sit for 5 minutes and strain through a fine strainer. Add 1 cup (250 ml) honey to rosebud tea. Stir to dissolve so that honey becomes syrup. Add 1 tsp (5 ml) rose water to honey syrup. Store in a clean glass bottle. Keep refrigerated.
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LION’S BREATH
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Beefeater London Dry gin
½ oz (15 ml) Lillet
½ oz (15 ml) Lemon Thyme Syru
1 dash chocolate bitters
1 egg white
Instructions
- Dry shake all ingredients for 10 seconds, add ice and shake 10 seconds more. Double strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with freshly grated lemon zest or a sprig of thyme.
- To make LEMON THYME SYRUP: In a saucepan, heat 1 cup (250 ml) fresh lemon juice with six 4-in (10 cm) sprigs of thyme and 1 cup (250 ml) sugar on low until sugar dissolves. Add 1 tbsp (15 ml) lemon bitters to syrup. Let sit for 30 minutes. Strain into a glass bottle and place one of the thyme sprigs in the bottle. Keep refrigerated.