#mixed drink

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.)
   

ButterBeer

Ingredients

• 6-8 tablespoons butterscotch sauce (depending how sweet you like it)
  
• 3 cups apple cider
  
• 1 cup bourbon whiskey (optional)
  
• 2 cups ginger beer
  
• Whipped cream, for garnish
  

Instructions

1. Heat cider, bourbon and butterscotch syrup in a medium saucepan until the butterscotch dissolves and the mixture is steaming hot. Remove from heat and stir in the ginger beer. Ladle into mugs and serve with loads of whipped cream on top.
   

Unicorn Blood

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz silver tequila
  
• 1.5 oz St. Germain (elderflower liqueur)
  
• 1 oz lemon juice
  

Instructions

1. Add everything to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake (hard!) for a full 20 seconds. Strain into a coupe glass.
   

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.)

Add the Chambord to a flute and top with Champagne. Garnish with a raspberry and a lemon twist.

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!
   

Sidecar

Ingredients

• 2 ounces VSOP cognac, armagnac or good California brandy
  
• 1 ounce Cointreau
  
• ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice, to taste
  
• superfine sugar, for garnish (optional)
  

Instructions

1. (Optional) prepare cocktail glass by making a slit in a lemon wedge and running the cut edge around the rim of the glass; then dip the rim in a saucer of superfine sugar to create a thin crust; chill the glass until needed.
   
2. Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake well until chilled, about 10 seconds. Strain into prepared glass; garnish with a twist of orange or lemon peel, if the urge comes across.
   

For all you masochist alcoholics out there

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