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Strawberry Vinegar Lemonade
Here’s a delicious cocktail alternative. I basically took the easy way out to create a quick shrub. If you don’t know what a shrub is – come back for tomorrow’s post.
1 ounce Strawberry Vinegar (I used Brightland)
1 – 1 1/2 tsp honey (I used Meyer Lemon honey, but plain honey will work.)
Juice of 1 lemon
Strawberry Vinegar Lemonade ingredients Combine the above ingredients in the bottom of a glass and mix well with a spoon until the honey is completely dissolved.
Add ice and top with Club Soda, Topo Chico or other bubbly water. For a cocktail version, add an ounce of vodka.
Cheers!
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Bramble
The Bramble was created in London in the 1980s. It’s a refreshing spring cocktail that basically tastes like a blackberry lemonade. Enjoy this as the weather starts to warm up.
Bramble Ingredients 1 1/2 oz Nolet Silver Gin
.75 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
.5 oz Chamboard or Creme de Cassis
To make simple syrup, combine equal parts sugar and water and heat until the sugar is dissolved. Chill. This will keep in the fridge for one month.
Add gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well.
Fill a glass with crushed ice and pour in gin mixture.
Top with Chambord or Creme de Cassis. Garnish with lemon and a blackberry.
Cheers!
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Vodka Sour
I’ve been trying to cut out refined sugar so I did some experimenting with this cocktail. I tried three different sweeteners. The first one was organic coconut sugar, the second was organic cane sugar and the third was raw honey. I made simple syrups with the sugars using a 1:1 ratio with water. (Heat and stir until the
sugar crystals completely dissolve.) The coconut sugar made a gross brown simple syrup that turned me off, but the awful taste sealed the deal. That one was out. The cane sugar simple syrup and honey were actually very similar in taste, so whichever you have on hand or prefer to use will work. Note that I did use less honey than simple syrup.2 oz vodka
3/4 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
3/4 oz organic cane sugar simple syrup OR 1/2 oz raw honey
Lemon twist
If you use honey, stir or shake your liquids well before adding ice or the honey will firm up and be more difficult to incorprate.
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake well. Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Cheers!
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Tequila Bees Knees
2 parts tequila of your choice (blanco or reposado are both good)
1 part honey
1 part fresh lemon juice (room temp)
Dry shake (no ice) until the honey is incorporated. If you add ice before shaking, your honey will not blend.
Then add ice and shake well until you get a little froth.
Strain into a coupe glass. (Although, I prefer it served on the rocks.)
Cheers!