12 Delicious Cocktails For Summer Sipping

Pig Viper

by Erick Castro, bartender and owner of Polite Provisions (@hungrybartender on Instagram)

Ingredients:

• 2oz WhistlePig PiggyBack 100% Rye Whiskey
• .75oz Lime Juice
• .75oz Grapefruit Juice
• .5oz WhistlePig Barrel Aged Maple Syrup, just awarded as winner of Good Food Awards
• .5oz Falernum
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Method: Shake all of the ingredients together and strain into a collins glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a grapefruit twist & mint sprig.

Rhubarb & Ginger Martini

Ingredients:

Method: Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice. Stir for 15-20 seconds and strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon peel.

Stars & Stripes Strawberry Basil Smash

Ingredients:

● 1 ½ oz Aberfeldy 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

● 3-5 strawberries

● 3 basil leaves

● ¾ oz lemon juice

● ½ oz simple syrup

Method: Shake all ingredients, pour over fresh ice and rock glass. Garnish with a strawberry and basil leaf.

Jane’s Good Call

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz Virginia Distillery Scholar’s Craft
• .75 oz Amaro Nonino
• .75 oz Cocchi Americano
• .25 oz Giffard Banane du Brésil Liqueur

Method: Stir ingredients together, serve in a rocks glass over ice with a lemon peel garnish.

Lady Love

Ingredients:

• 1.25 oz of Tequila Bribón Blanco
• .5 oz of Bauchant Orange Liqueur
• 1 oz of cranberry juice
• .75 oz of lime juice
• .5 0z of simple syrup
• 1 dash of orange bitters

Method: Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake. Pour the entire contents into a rocks glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Camus VSOP Intensely Aromatic Fresh 75

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Camus Cognac VSOP
• ½ oz Fresh lemon juice
• 3 Dashes of Simple Syrup
• 2 oz of Sparkling wine

Method: Combine Camus Cognac VSOP Intensely Aromatic, simple syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into an iced tumbler glass. Top up with sparkling wine. Stir gently.

Teeling Tropical Highball

Ingredients:

● 1½ oz Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey

● 2 oz Soda Water

● 1 oz Pineapple Juice

Method: Pour Teeling Whiskey in a rocks-filled Collins glass. Add soda water and top with pineapple juice. Garnish with pineapple slice.

Sorel Strawberry Slushie

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz Sorel Liqueur
• 0.5 oz dark rum
• 1 oz simple syrup
• 0.5 oz lime juice
• 8 frozen strawberries
• Mint

Method: Blend until smooth, garnish with fresh mint

Bell (Pepper) of the Ball

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Finlandia Vodka
• 1 oz Bell pepper infused Finlandia Vodka
• 1 oz Chambord
• .75 oz Lime juice
• .5 oz Lychee juice
• .5 oz Ginger syrup

Method: Combine all ingredients into a shaker. Hard shake then strain over pebble ice.

Tulchan Gin Rosemary and Blackberry Collins

Ingredients:

• Homemade rosemary syrup (sugar/water/rosemary)
• 2 parts Tulchan Gin
• 1 part Rosemary syrup
• 3 blackberries
• 1 part fresh lemon juice

Method: Build all in a tall glass with ice, stir and top with soda.

Dewar’s Lemon Wedge

Ingredients:

● 1.5 oz of Dewar’s 12-year-old

● 3 oz of club soda

● 2 oz lemonade

Method: Combine all ingredients over ice in a highball glass and garnish with a lemon wheel. (If you’re looking for maximum authenticity, spear that lemon with a golf tee!)

Spring Thyme Spritz

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz El Bandido Yankee Blanco Tequila
• .5 oz Campari
• .5 oz Passion Fruit Liqueur
• .75 oz Strawberry Syrup
• 1 oz Tangerine Juice
• Squeeze of Lemon
• Squeeze of Lime
• 2 oz Prosecco
• 2 oz Sparkling Water

Method: In a cocktail shaker combine all ingredients except Prosecco and sparkling

water. Crush a sprig of thyme and add it to shaker. Shake with ice. Fill a tall

glass with cracked clear ice. Strain in contents of shaker. Top with sparkling

water and Prosecco. Stir.