Drink Recipes
Steve Prati's Selections
Week of July 5 - July 10, 2010
Cucumber-Basil Collins
Ingredients
5 basil leaves
1/2 oz. simple syrup
1 lime, juiced
2 oz. cucumber-infused gin (recipe below)
club soda
Directions
Muddle the basil leaves and simple syrup in the bottom of a collins glass. Pour in the lime juice and gin and stir, then add some crushed ice. Top of with club soda. Garnish with a cucumber slice or sprig of basil.
Cucumber-Infused Gin
Ingredients
1 cup London dry gin
1/2 a large cucumber, washed and sliced
Directions
Place the cucumber slices in a glass jar and pour in the gin. Seal the jar and shake. Let it steep for three days, shaking once a day. Once the mixture has the desired flavor, strain out the cucumber slices and pour the infusion into a bottle. Store as you would any other spirit.
Summer Solstice Smash
Ingredients
1/2 yellow nectarine
1 lemon wedge
1 tangerine wedge
4 chocolate mint leaves
1/2 oz. peach liqueur
1 oz. cognac
1/2 oz. simple syrup
Directions
Muddle the nectarine, lemon, and tangerine at the bottom of your shaker. Add ice, liqueur, simple syrup, cognac, and mint (slap the mint first), then shake. Pour into an old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice.
Bo Clarke's Monthly Featured Cocktail
June 2010
Bo Clarke has concocted some special recipes for our customers and we will be featuring these tasty drinks the first week of each month. Recipe cards will be available in the store so be certain to pick one up! This is the first of many of Bo's Recipes, stay on the lookout for future ones online and in the store.
El Jimador Margarita
Ingredients
2oz El Jimador Resosado Tequila
1oz fresh lime juice
¾ oz Triple Sec
Margarita salt
Directions
Rim glass with lime wedge and dip into margarita salt (optional). Combine all ingredients into cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake vigorously. Strain into salt rimmed glass over ice. Garnish with lime wedge
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