Big Batch Summer Cocktails for Your Next Party
Summer is unofficially party season! So make sure you’re well prepared. Nothing puts the bummer in your summer, faster than a party without enough drinks to go ‘round. Ensure your soiree is ‘party-foul’ proof, by whipping up one of these big batch summer cocktails. Do this, and you’ll never run…
Celebrate Ice Cream Soda Day With These Boozy Recipes
Rewind several decades to the 1950’s. Chuck Berry plays on the jukebox in the little soda shop down the street, while dozens of teens in poodle skirts and slicked back hair line-up to savor one of the most iconic summer beverages of all time—the ice cream float! The times have…
Celebrate National Chocolate Ice Cream Day With Ice Cream Cocktails
Inside every adult, there is an inner kid. That kid remembers the magical days of chasing down the ice cream truck. Sheer excitement took every child on the block when the melodic chimes of “Turkey in The Straw” or “The Entertainer” grew closer because that music meant a cold and…
Celebrate National Moonshine Day With Moonshine Cocktail Recipes
We know what you’re thinking. One mention of the word ‘moonshine’, and immediately the image of a backwoods distillery ran by a hillbilly wearing overalls come to mind. Moonshine started off with a bad reputation. In reality, the moonshine you find on Spec’s shelves is 100% legal and regulated. Despite…
Mint Julep Recipe Variations
What makes a mint julep so delicious? Just 5 simple ingredients. Well on paper it’s bourbon, water, ice, mint, and sugar. But there’s more to it that makes this legendary libation what it is. You also add a heaping tablespoon of American South swagger, 3 ounces of Kentucky Derby history,…
Spring Party Shot & Shooter Recipes
Spring is in full swing and it’s time for a new fermented fling; lucky for you we have just the thing to add some zing to this seasonal upswing! With warmer weather shrinking pants into shorts and the sun hanging around later and later each night, you’ll need to dust…
Strawberries and Stripes
Strawberries and Stripes Strawberry Slushies Ingredients: 3/4 Cup Vodka 1/4 Cup Cointreau 1 Cup Simple Syrup 3 Cups Strawberries 3/4 Cups Lemon Juice Directions: Blend all ingredients together in a blender, freeze overnight, serve and enjoy!
Adult Chocolate Chip Milkshakes
Chocolate chips are delicious morsels that are a key ingredient in dozens of scrumptious recipes from chocolate chip cookies to pancakes to bagels and so much more. Fun Fact: Chocolate chips were created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House…
Great Tequila Cocktails That Aren’t Margaritas
There’s a famous song that’s starts to rattle around in people’s heads this time of year, and it’s usually accompanied by an image of Pee Wee Herman dancing across the bar top at a biker bar. It only has three words in the entire song, but it’s those words we’re…
Fresh Veggie Based Cocktails
Who says that getting a daily serving of greens can’t be fun? The craze of veggie-based cocktails isn’t going away any time soon. Cocktail connoisseurs are relishing in the invigorating and lighter flavors that vegetable cocktails bring to the table. They’re perfect for those who are trying to cut back…
Cocktails to Celebrate the Kentucky Derby – May 5, 2018
We’ve had Queen’s ‘We Are The Champions’ playing on a loop. All. Week. Long. Why do you ask? We’re excited about the Kentucky Derby; a new champion will be crowned this Saturday, May 5th! Referred to as the most prestigious horse race in the world; the derby has been conducted…
