This Mother’s Day, surprise mom with your mixology skills. Not only are these signature cocktails from Johnnie WalkerTanquerayThe SingletonBuchanan’sCÎROCI.W. HarperDon Julio, and Baileys simple and delicious, but a perfect way to raise a toast to the incredible mother or mother-figure in your life.

BAILEYS COLADA (above)
Ingredients:

3.5oz Baileys Colada

2 cups Frozen Pineapple

Finely Chopped Coconut

Ice

Garnish: Slice of pineapple & leaves

Glassware: Hurricane Glass

Preparation: Into a blender add: 1-2 scoops of crushed Ice, 2 heaped cups of frozen pineapple, 3.5oz Baileys Colada. Blend to a smooth consistency. Dip rim of colada glass in chopped coconut.

STRONG KNOWS STRONG
Ingredients:

1.5oz Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker

.5oz Darjeeling tea syrup

.75oz Fresh lemon juice

1 dash Aromatic bitters

2 ounces Ginger beer

Garnish: Candied Ginger

Glassware: Highball Glass

Preparation: Combine Jane Walker, tea syrup, lemon juice, and Angostura Bitters in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake. Prepare a highball glass with cubed ice and pour 2 ounces of ginger beer into the glass. Strain the cocktail over the ginger beer into the glass. Enjoy!

GARDEN SPRITZ
Created By: Mixologist Lauren Davis

 Ingredients:

1.5oz Tanqueray No. TEN

.75oz Hibiscus Syrup (.5oz if you would like more dry)*

Club Soda

Garnish: Grapefruit Slice

Glassware: Copa Glass

Method: Build ingredients in glass. Add ice. Top with club soda and stir. Garnish with grapefruit slice.

*Hibiscus Syrup:

  • Seep 1-2 hibiscus tea bags in 1 cup of hot water
  • After 5 minutes, remove tea bags
  • Add one cup of sugar and stir until it dissolves
  • Syrup can be refrigerated for up to one month

MAID IN SCOTLAND
Ingredients: 

1.5 oz Singleton 12 Year Old

.75 oz Lime Juice

.5 oz Simple Syrup

3 Slices of Cucumber

3 to 4 Mint Leaves

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Garnish: Cucumber, Mint

 Preparation: Add all ingredients into a shaker, gently muddle the cucumber and mint. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass and garnish.

BUCHANAN’S CRANBERRY CORAZÓN
Ingredients:

1.5 oz Buchanan’s DeLuxe

2 oz tart cranberry juice

1 oz fresh pink grapefruit juice

½ oz honey simple syrup (1:1 honey and hot water, cooled)

3 dashes lavender bitters

Top with 1-2 oz chilled dry sparkling rosé

Glassware: Large 8 oz coupe

Garnish: Floating cranberries, slice of pink grapefruit, and sprig of lavender

Preparation: Shake together bitters, whisky, cranberry and grapefruit juice, and simple syrup in a shaker with ice. Prep your glass by rubbing the edge with lavender sprig, then strain cocktail mixture into it, top with champagne, and garnish with cranberries and lavender sprig.

CÎROC SUMMER CITRUS SPRITZ
Ingredients:

1.5 oz CÎROC Summer Citrus

3 oz Club Soda

Splash of Prosecco/Champagne

1 oz Cranberry juice

Glassware: Highball or rocks

Garnish: Orange Wheel

Preparation:  Add all ingredients into a highball filled with ice. Gently stir and garnish.

I.W HARPER RESERVE
Ingredients: 

1.5 fl oz I.W. Harper Bourbon Whiskey

1 dash Orange Bitters

1 dash Aromatic Bitters

1 bar spoon Vanilla Liqueur

1 bar spoon Coffee Demerara

 Glassware: Ice-Filled Old-Fashioned Glass

Garnish: Orange Peel, 3 Coffee Beans

 Preparation: Combine all ingredients in an old-fashioned glass, add ice, stir.

BLOOD ORANGE MARGARITA
Created By: Othon Nolasco

 Ingredients: 

1.5 oz Don Julio Blanco

1oz Mexican Lime Juice

2oz Blood Orange Juice

1 bar spoon superfine sugar

Ice

Glassware: Rocks Glass

Garnish: Dehydrated blood orange and Mexican lime wheel

Instructions:

  • Build ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Hard shake and salt rim margarita glass. Pour over ice into a rocks glass and garnish with dehydrated blood orange and Mexican lime wheel.

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