Trevor Burnett Southside Cocktail
Ingredients
2 oz Bourbon, Rum or Cognac
¼ oz Maple syrup
¼ oz Peach Schnapps
8 Large mint leaves
Method:
Add mint, maple syrup and your chosen spirit into a Julep cup and stir well, making sure to bruise the mint with the bar spoon, while working the leaves up the side of the walls.
Fill the glass with crushed ice and drizzle Peach Schnapps over top.
Add more crushed ice.
Garnish with a straw and a healthy bouquet of mint.
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Ingredients
2 oz Premium rum (3 yrs to 5 yrs)
½ oz simple syrup
½ a lime
8 to 12 Large mint leaves
Club soda
Method:
Swueeze all of the juices from the lime into a large highball glass.
Clap the mint leaves in your hand and drop them into the glass.
Add simple syrup, your choice of premium rum, and fill the glass three quarters to the top with crushed ice.
Swizzle or stir well with a bar spoon to integrate the flavours from the bottom of the glass throughout the entire mixture.
Top up with soda water and a little more crushed ice without overflowing the glass.
Stir well again to combine all of the ingredients and garnish with a healthy sprig of mint leaves.
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Ingredients
2 oz premium gin
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz simple syrup
5 mint leaves
Method:
Clap the mint leaves in your hand and add to a shaker followed by lemon and lime juice, simple syrup and gin.
Fill with ice.
Shake well.
Strain the liquid onto a coupe glass and garnish by floating one mint leaf on the surface.
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How to Make:
Combine ingredients over rocks (ice) in a tall glass.
Stir
Garnish with lime and lemon.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Iceberg vodka
1/2 oz. Blanc vermouth
1/2 oz. Light agave
1/4 oz. Fresh lime juice
3-4 pieces of watermelon
Top with Mineral Water
How to Make:
Measure and pour everything but Mineral water.
Muddle watermelon pieces,
Add ice, seal shaker and give it a shake.
Strain
Top with Mineral water.
Ingredients
1 oz. Grenadine
1 cup crushed ice
4 oz. No-sugar-added pineapple juice, chilled
2 oz. Coconut-flavoured rum
1 oz. Water
½ oz. Blue Curacao
Orange slice, for garnish
How to make
Add grenadine to a 12-oz. Hurricane glass. Fill glass with ice.
Combine pineapple juice and coconut rum in a glass measuring cup; slowly pour mixture over ice in glass.
Combine water and blue curacao and slowly pour over pineapple-rum layer. Garnish with an orange slice, if desired.
Ingredients
60 ml PATRÓN Reposado
30 ml Fresh Lime Juice
30 ml Agave Syrup
3 Seedless Jalapeño Slices
Tajin Rim
Lime Wheel for Garnish
How to Make
Gently muddle the jalapeño slices in the cocktail shaker.
Add tequila, lime juice, agave, and ice to shaker.
Shake and strain into a rocks glass rimmed with Tajin over fresh ice.
Garnish with lime wheel and one more jalapeño slice.
Tequila Pineapple Refresher
Makes 4 glasses
INGREDIENTS
¼ fresh pineapple
8 ounces silver tequila
4 ounces Triple Sec or Cointreau
2 ounces fresh lime juice
Sweet and Spicy Salt
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon sugar (optional)
½ teaspoon cayenne (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
Mix all the Sweet and Spicy Salt ingredients together in a small dish. Run a cut lime around the rims of the glasses then run the wet rims through the salt.
Cut the ends off the pineapple and cut in half lengthwise then again so you have 4 long strips. Cut the peel off one of the strips and then cut into 1-inch pieces.
Place 4 pineapple slices into a cocktail shaker or mason jar and top with the tequila and Triple Sec or Cointreau. Muddle for about one minute, or until the pineapple looks pulpy.
Add the lime juice and ice to the shaker and stir to cool.
Strain into the salt-rimmed glasses and garnish with lime slices and pineapple wedges.
Tasting Notes:
Natural sweetness and creamy texture. Acidity and brightness. Sweetness without being too sugary. The ginger liqueur adds a subtle spicy kick (if using). Refreshing fizz.