Beer Bourbon Lemonade

Refreshing, smooth, flavorful and strong. Absolutely delicious!!!

Ingredients:

6 oz Summer Shandy

5 3/4 oz. Raspberry Lemonade

1.5 oz Bourbon

Glass: Garnish:

Highball Lemon Slice

Directions:

Add summer shandy, lemonade, and bourbon in a cocktail shaker.

Stir to mix.

Garnish with the lemon slice.

To elevate this make 1 large ice cube by pouring in same mixture into the circular or cube ice mold and add to drink.

Gin Martini

If you are a gin lover, this is your jam!

Ingredients:

2 1/2 oz Gin

3/4 oz Dry Vermouth

Dash of Orange Bitters

Glass: Garnish:

Martini Lemon Twist

Directions:

Add gin, vermouth and orange bitters to a shaker with three ice cubes and stir with long spoon.

Strain into a chilled martini glass and add the lemon twist as a garnish.

Sazerac

This is the official cocktail of New Orleans. A close cousin to the old-fashioned.

Ingredients:

3 oz Rye Whiskey

1 oz Simple Syrup

2 dashes of Peychaud’s bitters

1/4 oz Absinthe

Glass: Garnish:

Old-Fashioned Lemon or Orange Twist

Directions:

Fill cocktail shaker with ice.

Add 3 oz. Rye Whiskey, 1 oz simple syrup and 2 dashes of Peychaud’s bitters.

Shake until thoroughly chilled.

Coat inside of a chilled glass with 1/4 oz of Absinthe. Pour out excess.

Rub lemon/orange rind strip over glass rim and place rind in glass.

Strain whiskey mixture into prepared glass.

Rusty Nail

This cocktail is making a comeback and is a crowd favorite. This drink is meant to be savored slowly.

Ingredients:

1 Large Ice Cube

1 1/2 oz Scotch Whiskey

1 oz Drambuie

Directions:

Fill an old-fashioned glass with an ice cube and pour the Scotch and Drambuie over them.

Stir gently.

Glass: Garnish:

Old-fashioned Lemon Twist

Boulevardier

A sophisticated and fashionable drink with a Parisian influence.

Ingredients:

1 oz Rye Whiskey

1 oz Campari

1 oz Sweet Vermouth

Glass: Garnish:

Martini Orange Peel

or Old-Fashioned

Directions:

Pour rye whiskey, campari, and sweet vermouth in a shaker. Put ice into the shaker and stir well. Pour the drink into your glass of choice with the ice included or put a large ice cube into the glass and pour the drink over.

Garnish the glass with orange peel.

Old Fashioned

One of the six root cocktails that all of mixology has been built upon. 

Ingredients:

2 cubes of brown sugar

3 drops of orange bitters

3 drops of Angostura bitters

1 1/2 oz Bourbon (to make it stronger add 2 oz)

Glass: Garnish:

Old Fashioned Orange Twist

Directions:

Place sugar cubes on a cocktail napkin.

Put drops of Orange and Angostura bitters over sugar cubes.

Transfer cubes to a mixing glass.

Add Bourbon to mixing glass.

Muddle sugar cubes until sugar is almost dissolved. (Stirring helps the process)

Fill glass with ice cubes and pour drink into the glass.

Pomegranate Cosmopolitan

Robust with a deep taste of pomegranate and refreshing.

Ingredients:

2 oz Vodka

1 oz Cointrea

1 oz Cranberry juice

1/2 oz Pomegranate juice

1/2 oz Freshly squeezed lime

Directions:

Fill half the cocktail shaker with ice.

Pour all the ingredients into cocktail shaker.

Shake for 30 seconds.

Pour in a Martini glass and enjoy!

Glass: Garnish:

Martini Thinly sliced lime

Tequila Sunrise

Two levels of deliciousness, a perfect addition to a sunset.

Ingredients:

2 oz Tequila

4 oz Orange Juice

1 Tablespoon Grenadine

Glass: Garnish:

Highball Orange Slice

Directions:

Add Tequila and orange juice in a cocktail shaker filled with 4-5 ice cubes.

Shake to mix.

Strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes.

Slowly pour in the grenadine and allow it to settle.

Garnish with an orange slice.

Tequila Martini

If you are a fan of Tequila than this is your Martini! It’s refreshing and perfectly balanced.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz. Blanco Tequila

3/4 oz Blanc Vermouth

1/4 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice

2 Dashes of Orange Bitters

Glass: Garnish:

Martini Lemon Twist

Directions:

Add all the ingredients into a shaker filled with ice.

Shake until well-chilled.

Strain into Martini glass.

Garnish with a lemon twist.

Vodka Gimlet

This is a refreshing drink for those summer nights.

Ingredients:

2 oz Vodka

3/4 oz Lime Juice

1/2 oz Simple Syrup

Glass: Garnish:

Martini Glass Lime Wheel

Directions:

Fill half the shaker with ice and add vodka, lime juice and simple syrup and shake until well-chilled.

Strain into martini glass and garnish with lime wheel.

Cosmopolitan

Yes, the exact drink that was made famous by the show “Sex In the City” in the nineties.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz Citrus Vodka

1/2 oz Cointreau

1/2 oz Lime Juice

1 oz Cranberry Juice

Glass: Garnish:

Martini Lime Wedge

Directions:

Add all the ingredients into shaker with ice and shake.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Manhattan

Similar to an Old-fashioned but fortified wine (Vermouth) replaces the sweetener, in a larger proportion. 

Ingredients:

2 1/2 oz Rye Whiskey

3/4 oz Vermouth

2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Directions:

Stir all the ingredients over Ice, then strain into a coupe or old fashioned glass. Granish with cherry or a twisted orange rind.

Glass: Garnish:

Coupe OR Cherry OR

Old-fashioned Orange Twist