Send summer off with a delicious bang with these perfect end of summer cocktails!
Blood Orange Champagne Mule
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. vodka
juice of ½ a medium blood orange
juice of ½ a lime
4 mint leaves
2 oz. chilled ginger beer
Top off with chilled champagne or prosecco
Directions
Add all ingredients to a glass and top off with a splash of bubbly.
Grilled Watermelon Margarita
Ingredients
1 oz. Cointreau
2 oz. tequila
1 oz. fresh lime juice
0.5 oz. grilled watermelon syrup
0.5 oz. fresh grapefruit juice
Directions
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake and fine strain over ice into a Tajin-salted rocks glass (3:1 Tajin to kosher salt). Garnish with lime wheel.
How to make grilled watermelon syrup: Cut watermelon into slices and grill until both sides of the watermelon have grill marks. After letting cool, blend with simple syrup (1:1) and then fine strain.
Pineapple Spice
Ingredients
2 parts Bacardi Spiced Rum
4 parts pineapple juice
Garnish: pineapple wedge & leaf
Directions
Fill a highball or Tiki glass with cubed or crushed ice.
Pour in the Bacardi Spiced Rum, followed by the pineapple juice. Give it all a gentle stir.
Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a pineapple leaf.
Whiskey Smash
Ingredients
3 lemon wedges
2 oz. bourbon
¾ oz. simple syrup
4 mint leaves
Garnish: mint sprig
Directions
Muddle the lemon wedges in a shaker.
Add bourbon, simple syrup, mint leaves and ice, and shake until well-chilled.
Double-strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
Garnish with a mint sprig. (Firmly slap the mint sprig on the back of your hand before garnishing; this releases the oils to make the mint more aromatic)
Walk in the Park
Ingredients
1 oz. Don Papa Rum
1 oz. limoncello
1 oz. vermouth blanc
Directions
When making this cocktail simply pour one ounce of each ingredient, rum, limoncello, and vermouth blanc, into a mixing glass with ice and stir for thirty seconds.
Pour into a rocks glass over a large piece of ice and zest with a generous peel of lemon. Leave the lemon peel in the glass and serve.
Gin & Roses
Ingredients
.5 oz. lemon juice
.5 oz. rose & peppercorn infused syrup
.5 oz. Aperol
5 oz. Tanqueray Gin
Directions
Combine all ingredients into a shaker. Shake vigorously. Double strain into a rocks glass with cubed ice. Garnish with a rose bud and lemon slice.
