Mixing It Up for a Fab Labor Day Weekend: Cocktails Make the Weekend Fun- #Recipes
It’s Labor Day Weekend!! Time to get together with friends and/or family and celebrate!
Whether you are going to a bar this weekend with friends or having a gathering at home with family, rokz products will definitely be on the must-have list. rokz products make great tasting cocktails, beverages and craft cocktails. This weekend we shall have a Harvest Vine cocktail made with rokz products. Try this go-to recipe with friends and or family. It definitely is refreshing and so delicious!
HARVEST VINE COCKTAIL
Ingredients
2 oz vodka – infused with rokz Hop & Vine Infusion
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
4 sun gold tomatoes
2 sprigs fresh thyme
a few fresh celery leaves
a pinch of rokz Citrus Jalapeno Salt
Garnish: celery stalk and rokz citrus jalapeno salt rim
Method:
Prep: Infuse your favorite vodka with rokz Hop & Vine Infusion (ideal infusing time – 4 days).
Combine all ingredients except the vodka in a shaker and muddle well. Add the vodka and ice and shake for about 20 seconds.
Strain into an ice filled glass rimmed with rokz Citrus Jalapeno Salt.
Summer Oriented Cocktails!
Sun Kissed
Toast to summer’s end with this tart yet refreshing sparkling cocktail.
Created by Niccole Trzaska, The Liberty NYC
1 ½ parts Ménage a Trois Citrus Vodka
¾ part blood orange juice
¾ part sparkling wine
Method
Shake and strain Ménage a Trois Citrus and blood orange juice into a champagne flute.
Top with cold sparkling wine and garnish with an orange twist.
Sugar Island Swizzle
Ingredients:
2 parts Sugar Island Spiced Rum
1 part lime juice
1.2 part Tres Agaves Cocktail Ready Agave Nectar
6-8 mint leaves
2 dashes angostura bitters
Method
Add all ingredients to a glass and fill with crushed ice.
Stir until glass is frosted, and garnish with lime and dash of bitters.
Sugar Island Hurricane
Ingredients:
2 parts Sugar Island Coconut Rum
2 parts Sugar Island Spiced Rum
2 parts passionfruit juice
1 part orange juice
Juice of half a lime
½ part Crown Maple Syrup Medium Amber Maple Syrup
½ part grenadine
Orange slice and cherry for garnish
Method
Combine all ingredients; garnish with orange slice and cherry.
Top with cold sparkling wine and garnish with an orange twist.
Summer Salvation
Ingredients:
2 parts Sugar Island Coconut Rum
½ part fresh lime juice
Splash of Tres Agaves Cocktail Ready Agave Nectar
Splash of ginger ale
Method
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain into a glass and top off with the ginger ale. Garnish with lime wheels and raspberries.
Midsummer Martini
Become a BERRY impressive labor day party host with this easy-to-make and flavorful martini.
Ingredients:
3 parts Ménage à Trois Berry Vodka
Extra dry Vermouth
3 Fresh raspberries
Method
Add ice to a shaker, then Ménage à Trois Berry Vodka and two dashes of vermouth.
Shake, and pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with 3 raspberries.
A Farewell Bliss
Cheers to a summer well spent! This floral, no fuss cocktail is quaint and refreshing.
Created by Niccole Trzaska, The Liberty NYC
Ingredients:
1 ½ parts Ménage a Trois Straight Vodka
¼ part fresh lime juice
1 ¼ parts lavender tonic
Method
Combine all ingredients over ice and stir; garnish with a lime wedge.
There are tons of great recipes here! Let me know if you try any (or all) of them out!!
Enjoy your weekend but please drink responsibly!
Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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September 6, 2015
These are all imaginative and must be flavor packed. I like the idea of the updated hurricane. The swizzle is right up my alley also.