Cocktail - Summer Fun

 

Make those breezy summer days 

special with one of these summer cocktails

Lemon Shandies 

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 4 lemons), plus wedges, for serving (optional)
• 8 mild pilsner beers (12 ounces each)

Directions

1. Place eight 16-ounce glasses or mugs in the freezer.
   
2. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and 3/4 cup water over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves, about 1 minute. Refrigerate until cool, at least 10 minutes and up to 1 week.
   
3. In a 2-cup liquid measure or small pitcher, combine sugar mixture and lemon juice. Pour 1 beer into each chilled glass; add about 1/4 cup lemon mixture and, if desired, a lemon wedge. Serve immediately.

 

 

  

 

Lillet-Basil Cocktail

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup ice, plus more for serving
• 1/2 cup Lillet Blanc
• 1 ounce (2 tablespoons) gin
• 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
• 1/4 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves, plus sprigs for garnish
• Splash of tonic water
• 1 cucumber spear, for garnish
• 1 cinnamon stick, for garnish

Directions

 

Put ice, Lillet, gin, orange juice, and basil in a cocktail shaker; shake well. Fill a glass with ice; strain mixture into glass. Add tonic water. Garnish with cucumber spear, cinnamon stick, and basil sprigs.

Olive-Rosemary Martini

Ingredients

 

• 2 ounces gin
• 2 teaspoons dry vermouth
• 1 rosemary sprig
• Pitted olives

Directions

1. To make, shake 2 ounces gin and 2 teaspoons dry vermouth with crushed ice; strain into a stemmed glass. Strip leaves from bottom 2 inches of a rosemary sprig, skewer through pitted olives, and add to the drink.

Manhattan

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 ounces bourbon or rye
• 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• Ice cubes
• Maraschino cherry, for garnish

Directions

Shake bourbon, vermouth, and bitters over ice. Strain into a cocktail glass; garnish with cherry. Shake bourbon, vermouth, and bitters over ice. Strain into a cocktail glass; garnish with cherry. 

Mellow Melon Margarita

Ingredients

 

5 watermelon cubes

Ice

45ml tequila

30ml fresh lime juice, freshly squeezed

30ml orange juice

1 tbsp agave nectar

For the garnish:

Watermelon Technique: Slicing Cutting a larger piece of food into even pieces or stripes          

Thin lime Technique: Slicing Cutting a larger piece of food into even pieces or strips.

 

  

Method

How to make Mellow Melon Margarita

1) Muddle the watermelon cubes in the bottom of a shaker glass. Add ice, tequila, lime juice, orange juice and agave syrup. Give it a good shake for approximately 10 seconds. 2) Strain and pour over large rocks. Garnish with a watermelon.     
 

 Tequila Sunrise Punch

 

 Ingredients

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• 1/2   Cup  silver or gold tequila
• 33 ounces citrus-flavoured club soda
• 2 limes, quartered
• 1 small unpeeled orange, cut into 1-inch chunks
• 1/2 small unpeeled grapefruit, cut into 1-inch chunks
• Ice cubes 

Method

How to make Tequila sunrise punch

Pour the tequila and soda water into a pitcher. Add the limes, oranges and grapefruit and set aside for 10 minutes.
Add enough ice to the pitcher so that the punch rises to the top. Serve in chilled glasses with some fruit in each glass.