#cocktail recipe

|Valentine’s Day Cocktail

The elegant elderflower liqueur is back in style these days. Mix ½ oz. St. Germain with 4 oz. champagne and garnish with an orange slice or a strawberry.

Fill a Collins glass with ice and add the gin and lemon or lime juice. Fill with ginger ale and stir briefly. Garnish with a lemon or lime wedge.

Ingredients

• 1 oz Campari
  
• 1 oz Sweet vermouth
  
• 1.25 oz Bulleit Rye Whiskey
  
• Orange twist (optional)

Instructions

1. Add all the ingredients to a rocks glass filled with ice and stir to combine. Garnish with an orange twist.
   
2. (To serve the drink up, add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.)
   

White Wine Sangria

Ingredients

• 1 bottle white wine (I suggest sauvignon blanc but chardonnay or pinot grigio would work too)
  
• 1 fresh orange, thinly sliced
  
• 1 fresh white grapefruit, thinly sliced
  
• 1 fresh lemon, sliced
  
• ¼ c. sugar
  
• 8 oz. sparkling water
  

Instructions

1. Cut your slices of citrus into either halves or quarters (you can leave some whole for visual variety if you want) and place them into the bottom of a clear pitcher.
   
2. Add the sugar and wine to the pitcher and stir for a couple minutes until the sugar is mostly dissolved.
   
3. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
   
4. When you’re ready to serve, remove it from the refrigerator and stir it together to make sure the sugar is completely dissolved.
   
5. In each glass, add a few cubes of ice, then an ounce or so of sparkling water, then the sangria. Enjoy the lusciousness!
   

Muddle a cucumber slice, lemon slice, and a sprig of fresh mint in the bottom of your glass. Add a shot or two of Pimm’s and top with ginger ale.

Top one or two shots of rum with Coke and garnish with a lime wedge. (NB that this drink only gets to use the fancy Spanish name if you serve it with lime.)

Mojito

Ingredients

• ½ lime
  
• 10 mint leaves
  
• 1 tbsp. sugar
  
• crushed ice
  
• 1 ½ oz. light rum
  
• club soda
  

Instructions

1. Muddle* sliced lime and mint leaves with sugar in a chilled glass.
   
2. Add ice and rum. I tend to be a little generous ;)
   
3. Pour soda and top with a little mint leaf garnish. Ready to serve!
   

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People enjoying Gaur Spice Whiskey with Jonathan Echavarria

“Gaur Spice”, a whiskey for the ages!

Try Cocktail “BULL IN A CHINA SHOP" 

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz Gaur Spice Whiskey
  
• .25 oz Cynar
  
• .25 oz Grand Marnier
  
• .75 oz lemon juice
  
• .75 oz pink peppercorn infused honey 
  

Recipe:

Mix all ingredients in a shaker. Shake until chilled. Strain ingredients through a fine sieve into a chilled coupe. Express orange peel over the rim of the glass. Garnish with orange spiral and fresh toasted thyme sprig.

Pink peppercorn infused honey syrup-

1. 3 parts honey
   
2. 1 part pink peppercorn
   
3. 1 part hot water
   

Toast pink peppercorns until fragrant. Blend in a spice grinder. Mix hot water, honey, and peppercorns until evenly blended and let steep for 2 days. Strain through shinhwa strainer.

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!“ -Audrey Hepburn

The Gaur represents bold robust strength.

Choose wise, have Gaur Spice

Enjoy a Chilled Gaur Spice Whiskey Shot.

Spice up your cocktails.

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” -John Muir

“Spice up your cocktails.”

#splashofspice#gaurspice 

Imagine you’re on a beach in paradise as you sip your delicious cocktail. Get the recipe for Pina Colada Cocktail: http://www.cocktailpros.com/pina-colada

If you like scotch, try this simple cocktail. Get recipe for The Presbyterian Cocktail: http://www.cocktailpros.com/presbyterian

The perfect Manhattan is simple and sublime. Get the recipe at http://www.cocktailpros.com/manhattan-cocktail

There are dozens of wrong ways to make this modern classic. Here’s the right way: http://www.cocktailpros.com/cosmopolitan

Welcome summer with the most popular fruity Margarita.  Get recipe for Strawberry Margarita: http://www.cocktailpros.com/strawberry-margarita

.Pick Your Poison | The Elderflower Gintlime Fizz.

For my birthday the lovely Beth bought me a little cocktail kit and started me off on a delicious new boozy hobby! A few weeks and a shaker/muddler/strainer upgrade later I’m mastering classics left right and centre and even designing my own delicious creations…such as this summer beaut - The Elderflower Gintlime Fizz!

Shopping List:

1 shot good quality gin (Greenalls or Bombay Sapphire work well)

½ shot elderflower cordial

Handful of mint leaves

Half a lime

Good slice of cucumber (and one to garnish)

Topped up with prosecco (or champagne if you’re feelin’ fancy!)

How To:

Muddle together the mint and cucumber and squeeze in your lime. Add your gin and cordial with some ice and sh-sh-sh-shake it! Strain into a chilled martini glass, top up with fizz  and garnish with a slice of cucumber to serve!

Fresh, zesty and smooth this is the perfect English summer garden cocktail ideal for sipping outside with some cakes or alfresco nibbles.

So what are you waiting for? Get out your best gin and start shaking - Happy Friday folks!

Let me know what you think in the comments or tweet me a picture and mini review @xameliax on twitter!

#gintlimefizz

xax