Summer Sippers
Black Whiskey Sour
Ingredients:
2 parts Jim Beam Black
1 part lemon Juice
½ part lemon-lime soda
½ teaspoon sugar
Garnish:
Lemon peel
Mix Jim Beam Black Bourbon with lemon juice, sugar and ice in a shaker. Shake vigorously and strain into whiskey sour glass. Garnish with a lemon peel.
White Ginger Shandy
Ingredients:
1 part Jim Beam White Bourbon
½ pint pale ale
1 part ginger syrup
Dash of lemon-lime soda
Garnish:
Lemon wheel
Combine all ingredients on the rocks in a pint glass.
Roku Ginza Collins
Ingredients:
2 parts Roku gin
½ part Elderflower liqueur
½ part fresh squeezed lemon juice
½ part simple syrup
Soda water, to top
Garnish:
3–5 mint leaves
2–3 cucumber slices
In a Collins glass, gently muddle the mint, cucumber, and simple syrup. Add the gin, elderflower, lemon juice, and a small bit of ice and gently stir to combine. Fill the glass with ice and then top with soda, giving another gentle stir to combine. Garnish with a mint sprig and cucumber wheel.
46 Smashed Peach
Ingredients:
2 parts Maker’s Mark 46
¾ part orange liqueur
6 fresh mint leaves
½ lemon, cut into wedges
½ peach, pitted and diced
1 teaspoon simple syrup
Garnish:
Mint sprig
In a shaker, muddle the mint leaves, lemon, peach and simple syrup. Add the bourbon and orange liqueur, ice, and shake until well chilled. Strain into an Old-Fashioned glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.
Bitter Suite
Ingredients:
1 part Knob Creek Kenturcky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
1 part Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
½ part Punt e Mes
¼ part fresh lemon juice
Garnish:
Luxardo cherries on skewer
Combine Knob Creek, Luxardo Maraschino, Punt e Mes and fresh lemon juice in a glass. Stir and strain. Garnish and serve in a chilled coupe glass.
Pomegranate & Bourbon
Ingredients:
1½ parts Basil Hayden Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
¾ part fresh orange juice
¾ part pomegranate juice
1 tablespoon simple syrup
Garnish:
Orange slice or peel and pomegranate seeds
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake and strain into a tumbler. Serve over ice. Garnish with fresh orange slice or peel, pomegranate seeds.