Juan for the Road: Last Call for Summer Fruits!
August is the last month for lots of great summer fruits, but it’s also the time to embrace the ones that are going to be around for a little bit longer. I have some cocktails that will spice up your weekends and surely entertain your guests’ taste buds!
We have a strawberry Mojito for you that you should drink now; we also have peach and lemon cocktails that showcase fruits in their prime. Drink up, because while we may be reaching the last stretch of summer, your cocktail game doesn’t have to cool down with it.
PEACHY AUGUST (who says you can’t have peach off season?!)
Ingredients
- 1 oz. cream
- 2 oz. tequila
- ¾ oz. Chambord
- 3 peach slices — grilled
- Glass type: old fashioned
Instructions
- Grill (or pan sear) your peaches.
- Add two slices to your cocktail shaker with tequila.
- Muddle, mash, pound and destroy.
- Add cream and Chambord with ice.
- Shake a lot.
- These creamy drinks love extra shaking.
- Cease and desist your shaking.
- Add ice to your old-fashioned glass.
- Strain shaken cocktail into glass.
- Garnish with final peach slice
STRAWBERRY MOJITO
Ingredients
- 10 Mint leaves
- 10 Fresh strawberries
- ½ oz. Agave Syrup
- 2 oz. Three Olives Strawberry Vodka
- 1 oz. Fresh lime juice
- Club soda
Instructions
- In a shaker, muddle the mint, Strawberries and agave syrup.
- Add the Strawberry vodka and lime juice, and fill with ice.
- Shake well and strain into a highball or rocks glass filled with fresh ice.
- Top with club soda and garnish with a mint sprig or skewer of additional Strawberries.
LONDON LEMONADE
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. London Nô1 Gin
- 4-5 Lemons
- ½ oz. Limoncello
- 1oz. Lemonade
- Club Soda
Instructions
- Pour Gin and Limoncello into a Boston Shaker. Throw in some lemons while you’re at it and don’t forget the ice!
- Shake, Shake, Shake.
- Add ice to cocktail glass
- Pour contents in shaker into cocktail glass
- Add lemonade
- Top it off with club soda
- Garnish side with a lemon
