The Best Cocktails For Every Occasion

While we continue to stay at home to protect ourselves and others, we are finding ways to keep ourselves occupied and a new space for creativity. Our days are now filled with self -care sessions, trying culinary techniques and improving our bartending skills. Although we have become skilled creating a beautiful charcuterie and pairing the right bottle of vino for any type of meal, there is something exciting about selecting the perfect cocktails for every occasion. Whether it is for brunch, lunch, after dinner, or you know, Wednesday, we have you covered.

Brunch

Smoky Mary

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Chase Oak Smoked Vodka
0.5 oz Lemon juice
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
Dash of Tabasco Tomato juice top

Method:

Prepare the glass by wetting the rim by running a lemon around it. Mix celery salt and cracked black pepper on a plate and dip the glass. Build all ingredients in the glass over ice and garnish with celery sticks and a lemon wedge.

Lunch

Seagram’s Vodka Southern Sweet Tea Jam

Ingredients:

2 oz. Seagram’s Sweet Tea Vodka
1 oz. lemon juice
½ oz. simple syrup
1 bar spoon strawberry jam

Method:

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice, shake hard to chill and combine ingredients, strain into your glass over fresh ice. Garnish & Enjoy!

Aperitif

Ginger Diplo

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Diplomatico Mantuano Rum
5 oz. Ginger ale

Method:

Add ice to Collins glass add rum and top off with ginger ale to taste. Stir gently with a bar spoon. Garnish with orange zest. You can also add rosemary for more complex aromas.

After Dinner

Amaro Manhattan

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Bourbon
0.75 oz Cardamaro Vino Amaro
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro

Method:

In a cocktail mixing glass, combine all ingredients with ice. Stir with bar spoon, and then strain into coupe or double rocks glass. Garnish with cherry.

Wednesday

Partida Raspberry Collins

Ingredients:

1 3/4 oz Partida Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Agave Nectar (Cut 50/50 with water)
8 to 10 Raspberries

Method:

Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously, and then strain over fresh ice into a highball glass. Top with sparkling water or club soda. Garnish: Lemon twist and 3 Raspberries on a pick.

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