Easy Labor Day Cocktails

The last thing you want to be doing on Labor Day is labor. Known as the bookend of summer, you’ll soon be reaching for a jacket instead of suntan lotion. So, we want you to get the most of out the last summer holiday. That’s why we’ve put together a collection of “easy labor” cocktails so you can get back to the grilling and chilling with a drink in hand!

Ruby Radler

Ingredients

• 1 oz. grapefruit vodka
• 1 can grapefruit radler

Directions

1. Drink about 2 oz. of the beer, then pour in the spirit.

Spicy Michelada

Ingredients

• 1 oz. honey habanero moonshine
• 1 can light Mexican lager
• 3 oz. bloody mary mix

Directions

2. Drink (or pour out) about ¼ of the beer.
3. Pour the other two ingredients directly into the can.
4. Stir with straw or stirrer to mix.
5. Enjoy!

Bee’s Knees

Ingredients

• 1½ oz. gin
• 1 tsp. honey
• 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker.
2. Shake, strain into a chilled glass and garnish with lemon twist

Caipirinha Cocktail

Ingredients

• 1 lime, cut into quarters
• 1–2 tsp. superfine sugar (to taste)
• 2 oz. cachaça

Directions

1. In a shaker, muddle fresh limes with sugar.
2. Add cachaça and ice cubes and shake vigorously.
3. Pour, unstrained, into a chilled glass.

Blue Chill

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. honey habanero moonshine
• ¾ oz. blue curacao
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• ½ oz. cream of coconut
• ½ oz. lemon juice

Directions

1. Add all ingredients to a tin and shake vigorously.
2. Strain over crushed ice into a hurricane or tulip glass and garnish with a cherry and orange slice.

Rye Smash

Ingredients

• 2 oz. rye whiskey
• ½ oz. fresh lemon juice
• ½ oz. simple syrup
• mint

Directions

1. Muddle the mint and simple syrup in the bottom of a mixing glass.
2. Add ice, whiskey and lemon juice and shake until chilled.
3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.