Dave Kuiawa from Fine Wine & Good Spirits mixes up some cocktails perfect for your Labor Day weekend!
Cocktail Recipes:
August Cocktail of the month: Prairie Organic Cucumber Garden Fresh Mule
1 oz Prairie Organic Cucumber Vodka
2 oz Stoli ginger beer
Splash of Daily’s lime juice
Combine all ingredients in a copper mug or a rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with fresh-cut jalapeños and lime wedge
September Cocktail of the Month: Rosemary’s Pear
1 and 3/4 oz organic pear nectar
2 oz Bloom Gin
1 oz rosemary syrup
2 and 1/4 oz Stoli ginger beer
Combine pear nectar, gin and rosemary simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into an iced filled glass. Top with ginger beer and garnish with a rosemary sprig.
Rum-Beer Float
1 and ½ oz Calypso Spiced Rum
1 (12 oz) can or bottle of root beer
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
Pour root beer into a mug; stir in rum. Spoon ice cream into root beer mixture; let ice cream melt slightly into the liquid (about five minutes). Enjoy!
Bourbon Sour
2 oz Jim Beam Bourbon
1 oz lemon juice
½ oz lemon-lime soda
½ tsp sugar
1 each: lemon wedge, cherry
Combine first four ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with lemon wedge and cherry.