20 Cocktail Recipes To Make At Home In April 2021 & Beyond
Winter 2021 is now behind us, and now Spring 2021 is now underway, signaling that beach season is just around the corner. On behalf of The Hype Magazine, I have rounded up 20 recipes for mixed drinks from top brands and acclaimed mixologists, as featuring a variety of high-quality spirits.
St-Germain Spritz
Ingredients:
– 2 parts Martini & Rossi
– 1 1/2 parts St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
– 2 parts Sparkling water
– Glass: Collins
– Garnish: Lemon twist
– Ice
Method:
– Fill a tall Collins glass with ice.
– Add Martini & Rossi first, then St-Germain, then Club Soda.
– Stir completely and then garnish with a lemon twist.
Noilly Pray Original Dry Le Sud
Ingredients:
– 2.5 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry
– Chilled sparkling water
– Garnish: Frozen green grapes
– Large ice cubes/spheres
Method:
– Stack ice to the top of the glass.
– Pour Noilly Prat Original Dry over ice and top with sparkling water.
– Garnish with frozen green grapes.
Absolut Watermelon Vodka Soda
Ingredients:
– 1 part Absolut Watermelon
– 2 parts Soda Water
– Garnish: Watermelon & Lime Wedges
– Glass: Highball
– Ice Cubes
Method:
– Fill a highball glass with ice cubes.
– Add Absolut Watermelon.
– Top with soda water.
– Garnish with watermelon and lime wedges.
Absolut Watermelon Vodkarita
Ingredients:
– 2 parts Absolut Watermelon
– 1 1/2 Parts Fresh Watermelon or Puree (optional)
– 3/4 Parts Lime Juice
– 3/4 Parts Simple Syrup
– 1/4 Parts Orange Liqueur
– Garnish: Watermelon Slice & Lime Wedge
– Salt (for rim)
– Glass: Rocks
Method:
– Build in tin with ice.
– Shake and strain into rocks glass with a half salt rim.
– Garnish with watermelon slide and lime wedge.
Carrot Cooler
Ingredients:
– 1.25 oz Santa Teresa 1796
– 1 oz Fresh carrot juice
– 0.75 oz Fresh carrot spiced syrup
– 0.50 oz Triple Sec
– 0.50 oz Fresh lemon juice
– 1 egg white
– Ice
Method:
– Combine all ingredients and dry shake for 10 seconds.
– Add ice, shake until chilled.
– Double strain into a coupe glass.
– Garnish with a star anise and carrot powder.
Ginger Highball
Ingredients:
– 2 oz Dewar’s Portuguese Smooth
– Fever Tree Ginger Ale
– Garnish: Lemon or lime
– Glass: Highball
– Ice
Method:
– Add whisky to a chilled highball glass.
– Fill with ice and top with ginger ale.
– Garnish with a lemon/lime.
Martini & Rossi Fiero & Tonic
Ingredients:
– 2.5 oz Martini & Rossi Fiero
– 2.5 oz Tonic water
– Garnish: Orange wheel
– Glass: Balloon
– Ice
Method:
– Pack a balloon glass with ice.
– Pour in an equal ration of Martini & Rossi Fiero and tonic water.
– Stir gently for a few moments and garnish with an orange wheel.
Classic Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
– 1 1/2 parts Chicken Cock Whiskey
– 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
– Pinch of Raw sugar
– Garnish: Cherry
– Glass: Rocks
Method:
– In a rocks glass, muddle the sugar and bitters.
– Add ice, then pour the bourbon on top.
– Stir gently to mix.
– Garnish with a cherry.
Sazerac Cocktail
Ingredients:
– 1 1/4 parts Chicken Cock Rye Whiskey
– 1 1/4 parts Cognac
– 1 Sugar cube
– 1/2 tsp Cold Water
– 3 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
– 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
– Absinthe to Rinse
– Glass: Chilled Rocks
Method:
– Rinse a chilled rocks glass with absinthe, discarding any excess, and set aside.
– In a mixing glass, muddle the sugar cube, water and both bitters.
– Add the rye and cognac fill with ice, and stir until well-chilled.
– Strain into the prepared glass.
– Twist a slice of lemon peel over the surface to extract the oils and then discard.
Spicy Paloma
Ingredients:
– 1 1/2 parts Hornitos Black Barrel Tequila
– 3/4 part Fresh Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice
– 3/4 part Fresh Lime Juice
– 1/2 part Agave Syrup
– Jalapeño
– Garnish: Grapefruit Slice
– Ice
– Glass: Rocks
Method:
– Lightly muddle 1/4 grapefruit and 4 slices jalapeño in a shaker.
– Combine remainder of ingredients into the shaker over ice and shake vigorously.
– Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
– Garnish with a grapefruit slice.
The Cheesecake Factory Pineapple Moscow Mule
Ingredients:
– 2 oz NEFT Vodka
– 2 oz Pineapple Juice
– 1/2 oz Simple Syrup
– 1/2 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
– 1 Lime Wedge
– 3 oz Ginger Beer (e.g. Bundaberg)
– Optional: Candied Ginger
– Ice
Method:
– Add ice to cocktail shaker and shake hard 2-3 times.
– Before straining, add the lime wedge and ginger beer to the cocktail shaker.
– Strain contents of the cocktail shaker into appropriate size glass filled with fresh ice.
– Garnish with a Pineapple Half-Moon by bending and inserting into the glass against the rim.
– Add candied ginger if you wish.
Kid Curry
Ingredients:
– 1.5 oz High West American Prairie Bourbon
– 0.5 oz Aperol
– 0.25 oz Cynar
– 0.5 oz Lemon juice
– 0.25 oz Sudachi Juice
– 0.5 oz Garam Masala Syrup
– 1 Dash Saline Solution (1:5)
– 4 Watermelon cubes
– Fresh curry leaves
– Glass: Coupe
Method:
– Muddle watermelon in shaker tin, add remaining ingredients.
– Shake with ice then double strain into a coupe glass.
– Garnish with a fresh curry leaf.
Pomegranate Ginger Bubbly
Ingredients:
– 1/2 can Spicy Ginger Volley
– 1/2 oz triple sec
– Juice of 1/2 lime
– Splash of pomegranate juice
– Garnish with an orange and/or lime wheel and pomegranate seeds
Method:
– Combine ingredients.
– Add garnish.
– Enjoy.
Orange Is The New Babe
Ingredients:
– 1/2 cup BABE RED
– 1/2 cup Plain Seltzer
– 1/4 cup Fresh Squeezed Blood Orange Juice
– 1 tbsp Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
– Garnish: Blood Orange Slice
– Optional: Ice
Method:
– Juice the blood orange and lime into a small bowl.
– Add ice to a glass and pour in the BABE Red and seltzer.
– Stir in the orange and lime juices, then top with a blood orange slice.
Babe Frose
Makes 4-6 servings
Ingredients:
– 4 cans of BABE Rosé or BABE 100 Rosé
– 1/4 Cup NEFT Vodka
– 4 tbsp. Strawberry Simple Syrup (1/2 Cup water, 1/2 Cup sugar, 1 cup Finely Chopped Strawberries)
Method:
– Pour the BABE Rosé into a gallon ziplock bag set inside a dish then freeze overnight — don’t be concerned if it’s a little slushy.
– To make the strawberry simple syrup: Combine water and sugar in a bowl and microwave until boiling, about 1 1/2 minutes.
– Stir until sugar dissolves.
– Add the chopped strawberries and chill in the refrigerator overnight.
– Strain through a fine mesh sieve into another bowl then discard strawberry pieces.
– Add the frozen BABE Rosé, NEFT Vodka, and strawberry simple syrup to a blender then blend until smooth. Serve immediately.
Macleod Highball
Ingredients:
– 2 oz ABERFELDY 12 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
– 1 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
– Soda Water (to top)
– Garnish: Lemon Twist, Lemon Zest
– Glass: Highball
– Ice
Method:
– Pour ABERFELDY 12 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky and St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur together into a highball glass.
– Add ice and soda water, then stir to incorporate.
– Garnish with a lemon twist and lemon zest.
Honey Sour
Ingredients:
– 2 oz ABERFELDY 12 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
– 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
– 3/4 oz Local Honey Syrup (honey syrup = 1 part honey, 1 part water)
– 1 Dash Angostura Bitters
– Egg White
– Garnish: Honeycomb
– Glass: Rocks
– Ice
Method:
– Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker then remove ice and dry shake.
– Double strain into a rocks glass with clean ice.
– Garnish with honeycomb.
Coca Spritz
Recipe by Barlow Gilmore (The Weekend Mixologist)
Ingredients:
– 2 oz Cocalero Clásico
– 2 oz Elderflower Tonic
– 3 oz Prosecco
– Garnish: Twist of Lemon
– Glass: Highball
Method:
– Add all ingredients over ice to a highball glass.
– Garnish with a twist of lemon.
– Enjoy.
Lively White Negroni
Ingredients:
– 1 oz Regal Rogue Lively White Australian Vermouth
– 1 oz Gin
– 1 oz Suze
– Glass: Rocks
– Ice
Method:
– Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass.
– Add ice.
– Stir for about 30 seconds.
– Serve over ice in a rocks glass.
– Garnish with a lemon twist.
Malibu Watermelon Mojito
Ingredients:
– 1 part Malibu Watermelon
– 1/2 part Lime Juice
– 2 parts Soda Water
– Mint Leaves
– Fresh Watermelon
– Garnish: Mint Sprit, Watermelon Wedge
– Glass: Highball
Method:
– Add watermelon, mint leaves and lime juice into a highball glass.
– Gently muddle and then fill the glass with ice.
– Add Malibu Watermelon and top with soda water.
– Garnish with mint sprig and watermelon wedge
Malibu Watermelon & Soda
Ingredients:
– 1 part Malibu Watermelon
– 2 parts Soda Water
– Garnish: Fresh Watermelon
– Glass: Highball
Method:
– Fill highball glass with ice.
– Add Malibu and soda water.
– Garnish with a watermelon slice.
Apricot Honeysuckle Spritz
Ingredients:
– 1 part Pinnacle Light & Ripe Apricot Honeysuckle Vodka
– 1 part Lillet Blanc
– Equal parts Soda Water and Tonic Water
– Garnish: Fresh Apricot, Honeysuckle, Sprig Of Thyme
– Ice
Method:
– Build in glass over ice.
– Stir gently.
– Add garnish.
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Guava Lime Sparkler
Ingredients:
– 1.5 parts Pinnacle Light & Ripe Guava Lime Vodka
– 3/4 parts Honey
– 6 Mint Leaves
– Lime
– Soda Water
– Garnish: Fresh Mint, Guava
– Glass: Highball
– Ice (crushed)
Method:
– Muddle mint, lime, and honey in highball glass.
– Fill with crushed ice.
– Add vodka and stir.
– Top with soda water.
– Garnish with fresh mint and guava.
Finlandia Bloody Mary
Finlandia Espresso Martini
About the Author
Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."
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