Cutting Edge Cocktail Recipes

Just in time for summer parties..

CUTTING EDGE COCKTAIL RECIPES

A Sangria Onslaught
Send out one pitcher on a hot day (or on a miserable day that everyone wishes were a hot, sunny beach day) and the orders will slam your bar. Be prepared with a vat of Slammed-gria base behind the bar. If you keep the mix refrigerated, it will last a long time. Add the more perishable ingredients as you mix to order.

SLAMMED-gria Mix
12 bottles (750ml) fruity wine
1 bottle cherry brandy
1 bottle triple sec
2 bottles simple syrup (30 Baum)

Whatever size you serve your sangria¬¬¬---glass or pitcher---fill 2/3 with the base and the remaining third will be 1 part orange juice to 1 part ginger ale, lemon-lime or orange soda. Add cut fruit. You can usually price one glass at your cost for one wine bottle. Fruity red, white or rose wines can work equally well. (Remember, fruity means fruity, not sweet.)

Adjust syrup for your particular wine. Experiment with other fruit brandies, juices, infused syrups and sodas. This mix flies under the alcohol level for most beer and wine licenses. The brandy and triple sec may be ordered through the kitchen for “cooking purposes.” But you didn’t hear it from us.

FALL
Fruits like apples, oranges, grapefruits and other citrus fruits are good picks this time of year. One may also want to add a dash of hot sauce before serving--- just enough for a slightly spicy aftertaste.

WINTER
A “Sangritini” perhaps? Add vodka and triple sec to your house sangria—combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a floating orange or lemon wheel.

SPRING
Try infusing light white or red with limes, mint and simple syrup for a beverage that brings together the mojito and sangria. Top off with soda water.

SUMMER
Try using a bottle of light white wine with juices and fruits like apples, oranges, kiwis and peaches.




DRINKS FOR THE RUM BAR

Beachcomber
Vanilla Rum
Orange juice
Club soda
Splash of lemon juice
Garnish with orange slice

Singapore rum sling
Dark rum
Orange rum
Lemonade
Stir well and top with maraschino cherry juice and club soda

Cruzan vanilla coke
Cruzan vanilla rum and coca cola served on the rocks.

Easy colada
In a rock glass half filled with ice, combine coconut rum and pineapple rum. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

Trade winds
Combine orange, pineapple, coconut and banana rums and a squeeze of fresh lime and lemon juices plus a splash of orange juice mixed with soda. Serve on the rocks.


TOP 10 COCKTAILS

French Martini
1-1/2 ounces premium vodka
½ ounce raspberry liqueur
1-1/2 ounces pineapple juice
shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass

White Russian
1-1/2 ounces vodka
1 ounce coffee liqueur
1 ounce light cream
combine in a mixing glass and shake.
Serve in iced rocks glass.

Mojito
½ ounce Fresh Lime Juice
1-1/2 ounces light Rum
1 ounce simple syrup
Mint Leaves
Splash of Club Soda
Muddle mint sprigs with the simple syrup and the lime juice in the bottom of a mixing glass.
Add rest of the ingredients and shake with ice.
Pour over cracked ice in a highball glass, top with soda and garnish with a sprig of mint.

Sidecar
1 ounce brandy
1 ounce orange liqueur
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
Combine in a cocktail shaker.
Add cracked ice, shake vigorously and strain into a chilled martini glass with a sugar rim.

Margarita
(Salt Rim of Cocktail Glass)
1-½ oz. Tequila
1 ounce orange liqueur
/4 ounce fresh lime juice
Coarse salt
Combine tequila, orange liqueur and lime juice in a mixing glass withice.
Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Lime Garnish

Raspberry Cosmopolitan
1-1/2 ounces raspberry vodka
½ ounce orange liqueur
Splash of blackberry liqueur
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass, garnish with raspberry.

Cuba Libre
1-1/2 ounces dark rum
Cola
Lime wedge
Pour rum over ice in a highball glass, fill with cola.
Squeeze in a lime wedge.

Manhattan
1-1/2 ounces blended whiskey
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and stir.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a cherry.

Gin & Tonic/ Vodka & Tonic
1-1/2 ounces gin or vodka
Tonic
Pour gin or vodka over ice in a highball glass.
Fill with tonic.
Squeeze in a lime wedge.

Appletini
1 ounce vodka
1 ounce apple liqueur
combine ingredients over cracked ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
Strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with apple slice.

LOWCARBARITA

Thin Ice is the drink of choice for many serious low carbers. It is low in alcohol so a shot of tequila with all that ice is fine. This tastes best frozen.

1 bottle Thin Ice
1 ounce lime juice
1 shot Tequila
Dash of Orange
Sugar Free Syrup
Ice