E-Happy Hour – Easy Cocktails for a Virtual Hangout

E-Happy Hours Cocktails, Drinks for a Virtual Hangout - Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods

We’re all going through being stuck at home in our own way., be it knocking out dozens of yard work projects (and then fixing things you messed up in the process), puzzling like a madman, videogaming until dawn, or simply struggling to work from home. No matter how you’re handling it one thing is for certain – being on lockdown doesn’t make Friday any less Friday!

With that in mind, we’ve put together some super easy recipes with minimal ingredients that we’ll have you raising a glass to your great looking grass…or completed puzzle.

The Chilton

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 oz. vodka
  • Juice of 2 lemons

Directions

  1. Rim a highball glass with salt, then fill with ice.
  2. Add vodka and lemon juice.
  3. Fill the glass with soda water and stir gently.
  4. Garnish with a lemon wheel or wedge.

Sea Breeze

Easy breezy delicious

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz. Vodka
  • 1.5 oz. Grapefruit Juice
  • 3 oz. Cranberry Juice
  • Lime Wheel

Directions

  1. Pour the vodka, grapefruit juice and cranberry juice into a highball glass and add ice.
  2. Stir to gently mix the ingredients.
  3. Garnish with a lime wedge and serve.

Q-Cumber

Vodka tonic with a spa-like twist

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour cucumber-lime vodka into a rocks glass filled with ice.
  2. Add tonic water and a squeeze of lime to taste, then garnish with a lime wheel.

Blue Hawaiian

Ingredients

  • 2 o.z Coconut Rum
  • 1 oz. Blue Curacao
  • 1.5 oz. Pineapple juice
  • Ice

Directions

  1. Shake it all up and serve.

Creamsicle

Just like childhood, but better!

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour soda and vodka over ice in a tall glass, dash in bitters.
  2. Stir to combine and enjoy the nostalgia.