The Nutcracker
1½ oz Brandy
½ oz orange liqueur
½oz Yes Gingerbread Syrup
¼ oz Nocino or Coffee Liqueur
¼ oz Heavy Cream
Combine mixer all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until chilled and frothy. Strain into a cocktail coupe. Garnish with nutmeg.
Life and Lemons
2 oz Rum
.5 Meyer Lemon Sour Mix
1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
.25 oz Boozy Cherry Juice
Few Dashes Bitters
Pour Cherry Juice into the bottom of a rocks glass.
In a shaker add all other ingredients with ice and mix.
Strain into glass.
Tending Gardens
2 oz Vodka
.5 oz Meyer Lemon Sour Mixer
.25 oz Cranberry Juice
.75 oz Lemon Juice
Seltzer
2 Cucumber Slices
1 Lemon Slice
In a shaker muddle 1 cucumber slice and add ice, vodka, mixer, lemon juice and cranberry juice. Shake and strain into collins glass filled with ice. Top with seltzer.
Meyer Lemon 75×2
2 oz Gin
1 oz Elderflower Liqueur
1 oz Meyer Lemon Sour Mixer
1 oz Fresh Meyer Lemon Juice
2 Meyer Lemon Twists
In a shaker combine ice, gin, elderflower liqueur, meyer lemon juice and mixer.
Shake and split between two champagne flutes.
Top both drinks with sparkling wine and garnish with meyer lemon twists.
The Frozen Lemon
2 oz Tequila
1 oz Orange Liqueur
.5 oz Meyer Lemon Sour Mixer
2 oz Fresh Meyer Lemon Juice
1 cup Ice
1 tbsp Salt
Rim Glass With salt.
Combine all other ingredients in blender plus a pinch of salt.
Blend until smooth and pour into glass.
Sparkling Bourbon Sour
2 oz Bourbon
1 oz Key Lime Sour Mixer
1 oz Fresh Key Lime Juice
1 Egg white
Key Lime Wedge
In Shaker combine Bourbon, Key Lime Sour mix, juice and egg white.
Shake with no ice for 20 to 30 seconds. Add ice and shake again.
Strain into glass and garnish with lime wedge.
Key Lime Pietini
1 oz Key Lime Sour Mixer
1 oz Heavy Cream
.5oz Fresh Key Lime Juice
2 oz Vodka
Graham Cracker Crumbs
Rim martini glass with graham cracker crumbs. Fill shaker with ice and combine all other ingredients. Shake and strain into martini glass.
MLS Fizz
2 oz non-alcoholic 0.0% abv gin
1 oz Meyer Lemon Sour Mixer
1 oz fresh lemon juice
4 oz club soda
fresh sage leaf
1 slice lemon
In a cocktail shaker combine ice, non alcoholic gin, mixer. and lemon juice. Shake and strain into collins glass filled with ice. Top with with club soda and garnish with lemon slice and sage leaf.
In Bloom
3 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz Lavender Honey Mixer
2 oz club soda
1 basil sprig
1 fresh lavender sprig
purple food dye(optional)
Fill cocktail shaker with ice, lemon juice and lavender honey mixer. Shake and strain into collins glass filled with ice. Top with club soda and add purple food die until desired lavender color. Garnish with basil and lavender sprigs.
The Kombucha Mule
1/2 cup ginger kombucha
1oz Blackberry Pomegranate mixer
1oz fresh lime juice
4 leaves fresh mint
1 lime wedge
fresh blackberries(optional)
1 piece candied ginger(optional)
In a cocktail shaker combine, mixer, lime juice and mint leaves. Muddle together, strain into a copper mug and top with kombucha. Garnish with candied ginger and blackberries on a cocktail pick. Add lime to rim of mug and enjoy!