Summer Sippers
Strawberry Mint Julep
Ingredients:
2 parts Maker’s Mark® Bourbon
½ part simple syrup
½ part fresh lemon juice
2 sliced strawberries
6 fresh mint leaves
Garnish:
Mint leaves and strawberries
Add all ingredients to a shaker. Muddle until strawberries are broken up. Add ice. Give a quick shake and fine strain into a julep cup with ice. Garnish with mint and strawberries.
Blood Orange Sparkler
Ingredients:
1½ parts Roku Japanese Gin
½ part dry sake
1 part blood orange syrup
½ part fresh squeezed lemon juice
Sparkling wine
Garnish:
Blood orange wheel
Combine all ingredients, except sparkling wine in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a champagne flute. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with blood orange wheel.
Pineapple Sparkler
Ingredients:
1 cup Tres Generaciones® Plata Tequila
½ cup orange liqueur
1 cup pineapple juice
1 cup lime juice
¼ cup lemon juice
1 bottle champagne
Garnish:
Fresh mint; salt and chipotle chili powder
Combine all ingredients, except champagne, into a pitcher over ice. Strain into chili-salt-rimmed glasses over ice and top each glass with champagne. Garnish with mint and serve. Serves 8.
Strawberry Lemonade
Ingredients:
1½ parts Truly Strawberry Lemonade Vodka
¾ parts triple sec
¾ parts fresh lemon juice
¾ parts cranberry juice
Garnish:
Lemon peel and strawberry slices
Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass. Garnish with a lemon peel and strawberry slices. Optional: Top with 2 parts of any Truly Lemonade Hard Seltzer.
Bourbon “Tee”
Ingredients:
2 parts Jim Beam® Bourbon
5 parts unsweetened iced tea
½ part triple sec
Garnish:
Mint sprig and lemon wedge
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add the bourbon, triple sec and iced tea and stir. Garnish with the mint sprig and lemon wedge.
Tequila Sangria
Ingredients:
1 bottle of dry red wine
¾ cup Hornitos® Plata Tequila
¼ cup triple sec
½ cup orange juice
1 cup pomegranate juice
2 tablespoon simple syrup
1 lemon and 1 orange, cut into thin wheels
1 apple, cored and cut into small pieces
Garnish:
Orange, apple and lime slices, quartered
Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for 24 hours. Serve over ice in a sugar-rimmed wine glass and garnish with fresh slices of oranges, lemons, or apples. Serves 12.