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6 Spring-Inspired Easter Cocktails For 2016

The Easter weekend has arrived and spring is officially here! It’s time once again to don your bonnet (with all the frills upon it) and go hoppin’ down the bunny trail because The Easter weekend has arrived and spring is officially here! While not normally known as a rip-roaring alcohol-filled holiday as the recently passed St. Patrick’s Day, Easter Sunday usually involves relatives and potentially lengthy church stays, so drinks are in order!

Rather than serve you up a gaggle of pastel, sugary, vomit-inducing, drinks  — ala Sandra Lee — here’s a few spring-inspired Easter cocktails that won’t get you exiled by your cocktailian friends.

Easter Cocktails

Basil Smash

Recipe and image courtesy of Pisco Portón.

• 1.5 oz. Pisco Portón
• 0.75 oz. Fresh lemon juice
• 0.5 oz. simple syrup
• 0.5 oz. Elderflower Liqueur
• 3 leaves Fresh basil
• Basil leaf garnish

Build in a shaker by adding all ingredients except Portón. Muddle. Add Portón and ice. Shake vigorously then strain into a short glass over fresh ice. Garnish with a basil leaf.

 

Lavender Spritzer

Recipe and image courtesy of Casamigos Tequila.

• 2 oz. Casamigos Blanco Tequila
• 1.5 oz. Lavender Syrup
• .5 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• .5 oz. Grapefruit Juice
• 2 Dashes Lavender Bitters
• Top off with grapefruit soda water

Garnish with lavender sprig and lemon peel

Not-So-Secret-Garden

Recipe and image courtesy of Reyka Vodka.

• 1 ½ parts Reyka Vodka
• ¾ part Elderflower Liqueur
• ½ part simple syrup (1:1)
• ½ part fresh lemon juice
• 2-4 basil leaves
• Top with grapefruit soda

Combine all ingredients into cocktail shaker. Shake and serve in a Collins glass and garnish with a sprig of basil.

Siam Daiquiri

The Siam Daiquiri is critically-acclaimed Chef Ari Taymor’s take on his favorite rum cocktail, with a personal touch of Thai aromatics, inspiration stemming from his hometown of Los Angeles and named after its Thai influences. The cocktail infuses BACARDI Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron, a super-premium white rum, Kaffir lime juice and aromatic simple syrup for a refreshing cocktail that will have you quickly forgetting about any lingering winter weather.

Created by Chef Ari Taymor. Recipe and image courtesy of Bacardi.

• 1 part BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron
• ½ part Kaffir Lime Juice
• 1 tsp Aromatic simple syrup*

Mix ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker, shake vigorously and serve in a chilled coupe.
*Aromatic Simple Syrup

• 1 cup water
• 12 Thai basil leaves
• 3 Coriander seeds
• ¼ Sliced Jalapeño
• 2 Kaffir Lime Leaves (if available)
• 1 cup Sugar

Bring to a boil, steep 15 minutes, strain and cool.

 

Silver Lining

Recipe and image courtesy of Reyka Vodka.

• 1 ½ parts Reyka Vodka
• ¾ parts Drambuie
• ½ parts lemon juice
• 1½ parts pineapple juice
• 2 parts ginger beer

Shake all ingredients.  Pour over ice in a mule cup or rocks glass.  Garnish with a pineapple slice.

Spring Devotion Margarita Bowl

Recipe and image courtesy of Blockheads NYC and Casamigos Tequila.

• 1 oz Casamigos Tequila
• 2 oz Blood Orange Devotion Vodka
• 2o z Wild Cherry Devotion Vodka
• 7 oz Bud Light Lime
• 7 oz Champagne
• 2 oz Grenadine
• Slices of Orange-Lemon and Lime
• Fresh Mint Leaves
• Maraschino Cherry

Mix ingredients and chill in the fridge.  Garnish and serve over ice.

Related articles across the web

• Best Non-Alcoholic Drinks for Easter
• Good Taste: Easter edition
• The Ultimate Easter Sunday Lunch

More from A History of Drinking

• 2011 Easter Cocktail Guide
• Easter 2014 Drink Guide
• An Excuse To Drink – 2014 Labor Day Cocktails
• Halloween 2012 Drink Guide

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On Amazon Prime in the U.S., season nine as well as Christmas special “The Husbands of River Song” will be available some time in the fall of 2016.

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13 St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails for 2016

 

St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails:

This March 17th, we mark the 1555th anniversary St. Patrick’s passing. Prior to his death in 461, Patrick, the ubiquitous drinking man’s saint, traveled the whole of Ireland, establishing churches and monasteries, converting pagans and driving the snakes of evil from the island. As the centuries passed, the celebration spread to a worldwide event, but today, especially in America, St. Patrick’s day seems to be an excuse to dye all things green: be they rivers, beer or hair.

Irish Drinks:

Even if there isn’t a single drop of blood from the Emerald Isle running thorough your veins, St. Patrick’s Day is excellent excuse to party in the middle of the every potentially dreary month of March. One of the best ways to celebrate the day is with a great St. Patrick’s Day drink!

The Dude’s Breakfast

Yes, Lebowski is about as Irish as your local “mock-mick” chicken wing and potato skin-serving chain restaurant, but this recipe is a great alternative to what they try to pass off as Irish coffee these days…

Created by Mixologist Michael Lay. Recipe and image courtesy of Baileys Original Irish Cream.

• 1 oz Baileys Original Irish Cream
• 1 oz Cîroc Vodka
• 3 oz Cold Brew Coffee
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
• Fresh Grated Nutmeg for Garnish

Combine Baileys Original Irish Cream, Cîroc, cold brew coffee and bitters in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well. Strain contents into a double rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a dash of fresh grated nutmeg.

 

 

Good Luck Chuck

Recipe and image courtesy of KANU Lounge at the Whiteface Lodge, Lake Placid, NY.

• 1oz Redbreast 12 year
• .5oz simple syrup
• .25oz lemon juice
• Splash of POM juice
• 1oz egg white

Dry shake above ingredients. Then, add ice and shake. Strain into flute. Top with Great ADK Whiteface Stout. Garnish with Micro Mint

 

 

Luck of the Irish

Recipe and image courtesy of jade bar at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain, Scottsdale, AZ.

• 2 oz. Redbreast
• 1oz. Guinness
• simple syrup
• ¾ oz. lemon juice
• ½ oz. apple juice

Combine ingredients into a shaker. Shake and pour into cocktail glass.

 

The Smoky Aye

Created by Mixologist Kate Bolton. Recipe and image courtesy of Baileys Original Irish Cream.

• 3/4 oz Baileys Original Irish Cream
• 3/4 oz Irish Whiskey
• 1/4 oz Campari
• 1 3/4 oz Freshly Brewed Coffee
• 1 1/2 oz Zested Orange Crème*
• Grated Orange Zest for Garnish

Combine Irish whiskey, Campari and coffee in a footed coffee mug and stir. Pour in Baileys Original Irish Cream. Top with zested orange crème. Garnish with grated orange zest.

*Zested Orange Crème:

• 1 oz Heavy Cream
• 1/2 oz Simple Syrup
• 2 Large Orange Zests

Combine heavy cream, simple syrup and orange zests in a chilled cocktail shaker. Shake well into whipped cream consistency.

 

Other “green” drinks from around the world:

Is Irish whiskey not your thing? Luckily, you can still avoid the green beer and creme de menthe abominations with these non-traditional green drinks, guaranteed to quench your St. Patrick’s Day cocktail needs!

 

 

BATIDA

Recipe and image courtesy of  Novo Fogo.

• 2 oz Novo Fogo Silver or Chameleon cachaça
• 1oz BG Reynolds Passionfruit Syrup
• 0.5 oz coconut milk
• 0.5 oz lime juice

Add all ingredients in a blender with ½ cup of ice and blend until smooth.

 

Carolina Emperor

Recipe and image courtesy of The Bar and Lounge at The Umstead Hotel and Spa.

• 2 oz Hendricks Gin
• .5 oz St. Germain
• 2 oz Cucumber-Yuzu
• 1 Ice Emerald
• 1 oz Fever Tree Tonic
• Liquid Nitrogen
• Cucumber Twist

Combine all ingredients except Liquid Nitrogen in a mixer and shake. Pour into glass goblet. Top with Liquid Nitrogen. Garnish with Cucumber Twist.

 

Emerald Crush

Recipe and image courtesy of Blue Ice Vodka

• 2 oz Blue Ice Vodka

• 1/2  kiwi

• 1/2 Lime

• Teaspoon of sugar

Peel kiwi and and slice lime into wedges. Muddle fruit and sugar in shaker until well crushed and juicy. Add ice and vodka and pour into glass.

 

The Green Boxer

Recipe and image courtesy of 1800 Tequila.

• 1.5 oz. 1800 Silver
• 0.5 oz. Fresh squeezed orange juice
• 0.5 oz. Fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 0.5 oz. Lime juice cordial
• 0.25 oz. Green chartreuse

Shake with ice and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass.

 

Irish Martini

Recipe and image courtesy of Blue Ice Vodka

• 2 oz. Blue Ice Vodka

• 1/2 oz. dry vermouth

• 1/2 oz. Irish whiskey

• Lemon twist for garnish

Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

 

Last Night

Created by mixologist, Eddy Buckingham. Recipe and image courtesy of Sauza® 901.

• 2 parts Sauza® 901®
• 1 part maraschino liquor
• 1 part green Chartreuse
• 1 Part lime juice

Combine all ingredients. Shake well. Double strain and serve in a martini glass.

 

Lucky Ginger

Created by Zachary Brian Taylor (San Francisco, CA). Recipe and image courtesy of Basil Hayden’s® Bourbon.

• 1 1/2 parts Basil Hayden’s® Bourbon
• 3/4 parts Lemon Juice
• 1/2 part Brown Sugar Syrup*
• 1 spring of Rosemary
• Ginger Beer

Combine Basil Hayden’s® Bourbon, lemon juice and brown sugar syrup into a cocktail shaker. Remove rosemary needles from the bottom 3/4 of the spring and add to the shaker. Save the top of the spring for use as a garnish. Add ice to shaker and shake. Double strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with the remaining rosemary spring.

 

Luck of Laphroaig®

Created by Tyson Buhler (New York, NY). Recipe and image courtesy of Laphroaig®.

• 1 1/2 parts Laphroaig® Select
• 1/4 part Sarsaparilla Syrup
• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Orange twist

Combine ingredients in a rocks glass with ice. Garnish with orange twist.

 

 

The Mexican Clover

• 1 oz. Jose Cuervo Especial Silver Tequila
• 1 oz. Melon Liqueur
• 0.5 oz. Triple sec
• Splash of Orange Juice

Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange slice.

 

 

 

Mint Ginger Old Fashioned

Created by Celebrity Chef Michael Symon. Recipe and image courtesy of Knob Creek® Rye Whiskey.

• 1 ½ Parts Knob Creek® Rye Whiskey
• Ginger Beer
• ½ Part Lemon Juice
• ¼ Part Green Chartreuse
• 6-8 Mint Leaves

Combine all ingredients (except ginger beer) in a bar tin with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled Collins glass, top off with ginger beer and garnish with a single mint leaf.

 

Verde Maria

Created by mixologist, Eddy Buckingham. Recipe and image courtesy of Sauza® 901.

• 2 parts Sauza® 901® Tequila
• ½ part lemon juice
• 2 green tomatoes
• Half an avocado
• 1 celery stick
• ¼ cucumber diced
• 4 dashes of hot sauce
• Cilantro to taste
• Pinch of salt and pepper
• 4 Dashes Hot Sauce

Blend green tomatoes, avocado, celery, cucumber and cilantro until smooth. Combine all ingredients over ice in tall glass and stir. Garnish with cilantro leaves.

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My Fair Lady Cocktails – An Excuse To Drink

March 15, 1956: 60 years ago today, the musical My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Stanley Holloway, opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. The production would eventually transfer to the Broadhurst Theatre and finally to The Broadway Theatre, where it closed on September 29, 1962 after 2,717 performances, a record at the time.

 

My Fair Lady Cocktails

My aunt died of influenza – so they said, but it’s my belief they done the old woman in…Yes, Lord love you. Why should she die of influenza when she come through diptheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead, but my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat…Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl off the spoon…Now what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it, and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in…Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat pin, let alone a hat…Gin was mother’s milk to her. Besides, he’d poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it…Drank! My word! Something chronic! –  Eliza Doolittle

 

My Fair Lady

Created by the late great, Joe Gilmore, the longest-serving  Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, to mark Julie Andrews’ first night in the musical ‘My Fair Lady.’

• 1 part Gin
• 1 part Lemon Juice
• 1 part Orange juice
• 1 part Sirop de Fraise/Strawberry Syrup
• 1 dash of egg white

Shake ingredients together with ice, and strain into a cocktail glass.

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An Excuse To Drink – Pancho Villa Cocktails

March 9, 1916: 100 years ago today, Mexican revolutionaries under the command of legendary revolutionary José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, aka Pancho Villa,  launched a cross-border raid on Columbus, New Mexico. In response, the United States launched the Pancho Villa Expedition — aka the Mexican Expedition — on March 14th, pursuing Villa’s forces into Mexico using trucks and planes. The continue unit February of 1917, when it was ultimately abandoned.

Pancho Villa Cocktails

Whatever side you support, mark the 100th anniversary with these Pancho Villa cocktails!

Pancho Villa

First up, we have a classic from the Trader Vic Bartender’s Guide. Here is Victor Bergeron’s own description of this drink:  “This’ll tuck you away neatly — and pick you up and throw you right into the floor”

Recipe adapted from Difford’s Guide

• 0.5 oz. Apricot Brandy
• 1 tsp. Cherry Liqueur
• 1 oz. Gin
• 1 tsp. Pineapple Juice
• 1 oz. Light Rum

Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass

 

Pancho Villa

Now for a more modern, but more appropriate — ingredients wise — drink. The ‘Pancho Villa’ is still on the menu at Victory,  located at 339 Baronne Street, New Orleans. 

Created by Victory NOLA, recipe adapted from drinkoftheweek.com.

• 2 oz. Altos Plata Tequila
• ¾ oz. Agave Nectar
• Juice of ½ Grapefruit
• 2 dashes of Bill York’s Bitter End Memphis BBQ Bitters
• 2 Jalapeno slices

Shake with ice and double-strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with 2 dashes of Memphis BBQ bitters.

 

 

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