This Labor Day liven things up a bit by trying these exciting brands. Whichever is your spirit of choice we have a cocktail for you. Check out the recipes below and enjoy the weekend!

If You Like Tequila

Camarena has a delicious cocktail recipe with fresh ingredients to help you steer away from the traditional sugar-filled cocktails.

El Altiplano Verde (The Green Highland) features Camarena’s Silver Tequila, which is harvested by hand from 100% blue weber agave in the Jalisco’s Arandas Highlands and then distilled through a proprietary method that blends traditional ovens and modern techniques, making this tequila one of the smoothest and best tasting on the market and perfect in this fresh ingredient filled cocktail.

El Altiplano Verde (The Green Highland)
1.5 oz. Camarena Silver Tequila
1 oz. Fresh Kale & Cucumber Juice
.75 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
.5 oz. Agave Nectar
Top with Q Sparkling Lemon

Instructions:
Add ingredients (except Q Sparkling Lemon) into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, and shake together to combine/chill. Strain into a highball glass encrusted with Chipotle, and top with Q Sparkling Lemon.

For Brandy Lovers

E&J Peach Brandy, which is made from the highest quality of ingredients, then distilled for at least 45 days and aged in American oak barrels, is great in the refreshing E&J Peach Palmer and is sure to help your readers relax over the long holiday weekend.

Peach Palmer:
1 part E&J Peach
1 part Iced Tea
1 part Lemonade

Instructions:
Shake, pour into a cocktail glass, add ice and garnish with a lime wedge.

 Make It Vodka

Guillotine is a revolutionary French vodka created exclusively from the Aÿ- Champagne region’s finest pinot and chardonnay grapes. This well rounded vodka is gluten-free and vegan, made with no coloring or flavoring agents, no glycerol, and no citric acid.

The Riviera
1oz Guillotine Originale Ultra-Premium Vodka
.5oz St. Germain (Elderflower liqueur)
.5oz Simple Syrup
.5oz Lemon Juice, freshly squeezed – shake
3oz. Champagne, added after shake
Instructions:
Double strain
Pour into Flute glass
Garnish with flower petals cascading on the outside of the glass

Coco de Coconut:
2oz Guillotine Originale Ultra-Premium Vodka
1oz Pineapple Juice, freshly squeezed
.25oz Yellow Chartreuse
.5oz Coconut Cream
.25oz Creme de Cassis
.75oz Lemon Juice, freshly squeezed
Instructions:
Medium shake, roll
Pour over crushed ice in Collins glass
Garnish with pineapple frond and a skewered Marasca cherry

To Complement Your Cocktails

Crook & Marker has three summer-inspired cocktails for any Labor Day party. Crook & Marker’s Crooked Paloma, Blackberry Brew and Crooked Colada are the refreshing drinks everyone needs to sip relaxing by the pool or at the next barbecue. These cocktails can also make for great frozen and boozy Crooksicles.

Crooked Paloma
1 can of Crook & Marker Grapefruit
1 ounce blanco tequila
½ ounce fresh lime juice
Grapefruit slice for garnish

Instructions:
Combine ingredients in a glass over ice and mix. Garnish with a grapefruit or lime slice.Blackberry Brew
1 can of Crook & Marker Blackberry Lime
1 ounce bourbon
Blackberries and lime slice for garnish

Instructions:
Combine ingredients in a glass over ice and mix. Garnish with a lime slice and blackberries.

 Crooked Colada
1 can of Crook & Marker Coconut Pineapple
1 ounce white rum
½ ounce fresh lime juice
Pineapple slice for garnish

Instructions:
Combine ingredients in a glass over ice and mix. Garnish with a pineapple or lime slice.