Best Summer Cocktails

Ingredients

Lavender Lemonade

• 2 oz. / 60 ml Gin (or Vodka)
• 1 oz. / 30 ml Lavender syrup
• 1 oz. / 30 ml Lemon juice
• Top up with Club Soda
• Shake, Highball glass with ice

Sweet Tea Smash

• 2 Lemon wedges
• 4-6 Mint leaves
• 1 oz. / 30 ml Tennessee whiskey
• 1 teaspoon / 5 ml Strega (or Fernet)
• 1 oz. / 30 ml Unsweetened Black Tea
• 1-2 teaspoons / 5-10 ml Simple syrup
• Garnish with a Mint sprig

High King Highball

• ½ oz. / 15 ml Simple syrup
• ½ oz. / 15 ml Raspberry puree (3 large raspberries)
• 2 oz. / 60 ml Irish whiskey matured in Calvados cask
• ½ oz. / 15 ml Aperol / Aperitivo
• ¾ oz. / 22 ml Lemon juice
• ¾ oz. / 22 ml Grapefruit juice
• 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
• Top up with Club soda (optional)
• Garnish with a Grapefruit slice (and an optional raspberry)
• Shake, Highball glass with ice

Cucumber & Basil Gimlet

• 2-4 slices Cucumber
• 3-4 fresh Basil leaves
• 2 oz. / 60 ml Vodka or Gin
• 1 oz. / 30 ml Lime juice
• Garnish with a Basil leaf and/or a Cucumber slice
• Shake, Cocktail glass

Cheeky Peach

• 2 oz. / 60 ml Vodka
• ½ oz. / 15 ml Peach liqueur
• 1 oz. / 30 ml Pineapple juice
• ½ oz. / 15 ml Simple syrup
• 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
• 5 Mint leaves
• 1-2 teaspoons / 5-10 ml Lemon juice (optional)
• Top up with Club soda
• Garnish with a Mint sprig
• Shake, double rocks glass with ice