National Cocktail Day (3/24) Is Coming Up with Tasty Cocktails!

National Cocktail Day (on March 24) approaches, and I am sharing a  few cocktail recipes by Casa Don Ramón.

  Celebrate National Cocktail Day with colorful cocktails! 

SPRING COCKTAILS

Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

The Norman Collins 

• Ingredients:
  • • 1 ½ parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
    • 1 part lemon cordial (see recipe below)
    • ½ part lemon juice
    • Club soda

• Method: In a tin, add Sailor Jerry spiced rum, lemon cordial, and lemon juice with ice. Shake and strain into a Collins glass filled with fresh ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with a skewered lemon wheel and maraschino cherry.

• To make Lemon Cordial:
  Add 1-quart lemon juice + 1 quart of white granulated sugar and 5 lemon peels in a container and let sit overnight.
  Remove peels and stir mixture and bottle.
  Adding an ounce of Sailor Jerry spiced rum to the cordial will help it keep for several weeks.

The Passion of the Punch

• Ingredients:
  • • 2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum
    • 4 parts sparkling wine
    • ½ part seltzer
    • ½ part passionfruit juice
    • ¼ part grapefruit juice
    • ¼ part lime juice

• Method: Combine all ingredients except wine in a tall pitcher with ice.
  Top with sparkling wine.
  Garnish with grapefruit and lime wheels.

Reyka Vodka

Spring Flower Showers 

• Ingredients:
  • • 1 ½ parts Reyka Vodka
    • 1 part Fresh watermelon juice
    • ¾ parts Fresh lemon juice
    • ¾ parts Lavender syrup (see recipe below) 
    • Egg whites
    • Cucumber slices
• Method: In one cocktail shaker, add egg white.
  In another, muddle a cucumber slice and add the remaining ingredients.
  Combine the shakers and dry shake.
  Add ice and wet shake. Garnish and serve.

• To make Lavender Syrup:
  1 quart water, 4 cups granulated sugar, 1-ounce lavender buds.
  Cook the syrup first, then steep the buds for 30 minutes off the heat, steep to taste.

• Spring Bellini 

• Ingredients:
  • • 1 part Reyka Vodka
    • .75 part Spiced Peach syrup (see recipe below)
    • 8-10 parts sparkling champagne
• Method:
• To make Spiced Peach syrup:
  Bring Bag Frozen peaches,
  ½ cup sugar,
  ½  cup brown sugar,
  1 cup water,
  1/2 tsp ground black pepper,
  10 cloves,
  1 cinnamon stick (2.5 in),
  1-star anise,
  1 peel from an orange.
  Bring to a boil in a pot.
  Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
  Let cool completely.
  Fine strain and bottle. Combine all ingredients except sparkling Champagne in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice.
  Strain, garnish, and top with sparkling.

Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky

Fronds with Benefits
by Anna Mains, Monkey Shoulder Brand Ambassador

• Ingredients:
  • • 1 ½ parts Monkey Shoulder
    • ½ part green tea syrup 
    • ½ part pineapple juice 
    • 3 parts coconut water
• Method: Shake, strain over ice in Collins glass. Garnish with pineapple fronds.

Strawberry Daiquiri, but #makeitmonkey

by Anna Mains, Monkey Shoulder Brand Ambassador

• Ingredients:

• • • 2 parts Monkey Shoulder
    • ¾ part simple
    • ¾ parts fresh lime juice
    • 1-2 strawberries (sliced)

• Method:
  Muddle strawberries in the shaker,
  add ice, Monkey, and Lime, and shake.
  Double strain into a coupe.

Batch & Bottle Milagro Margarita

• Ingredients:

• • • Batch & Bottle Milagro Margarita

• Method: 

• • Chill the bottle,
    Garnish your glass with salt and a lime wedge,
    Pour neat or on the rocks.

Balvenie in Bloom

By Naomi Leslie, The Balvenie Ambassador 

• Ingredients 

• –1 ½  parts The Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14-Year-Old
  –1 part Fino Sherry
• ½  part Elderflower Liqueur
• ½  part Rhubarb Liqueur
• 1 part Fresh Lemon
• 1 Egg White

• Method

• Add all ingredients to a cocktail tin and shake briefly.
• Then add ice and shake once more. Strain into a coupe glass.

These cocktails look amazing, thanks to the photos from the various brands.
The recipes for each of these cocktails are very enticing.
I am dying to try some of these cocktails.
If you try any of these cocktails, please let me know. I would like to know what you think about these
spring cocktails!

Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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