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Top Margaritas from “Sammy Hagar’s Greatest Cocktail Hits”
National Margarita Day is right around the corner and we wanted to share a few great cocktail ideas from legendary rocker and spirits entrepreneur Sammy Hagar’s “Sammy Hagar’s Greatest Cocktail Hits.”
- The Desert Pear Margarita features the world’s first mezcal-tequila, Santo Mezquila, and is a bright purple that packs a punch. With a tropical prickly pear syrup to compliment the Santo Mezquila, this unique cocktail is sure to keep you shaking up more and more!
- Ingredients include Santo Mezquila, Triple Sec, prickly pear syrup, fresh lime juice, sweet & sour mix and sugar for the rim.
- For a fresh take on the classic margarita, the Margarita Verde is made with fresh cucumbers, cilantro and lime juice, plus Santo Blanco Tequila which brings all these crisp flavors together to quench any thirst.
- Ingredients include fresh cucumber and cilantro, Santo Blanco Tequila, Grand Marnier, fresh lime juice and sweet & sour mix.
- Sammy’s “Velvet Kickstand” Margarita, another cocktail with Santo Blanco Tequila, has a unique take with a burst of Damiana, a light herbal-based liqueur from Mexico. The damiana herb, which grows wild in Baja, is an aphrodisiac, which makes this cocktail a great choice to celebrate the holiday at home with your significant other.
- Ingredients include Santo Blanco Tequila, Triple Sec, fresh lime juice, Damiana Liqueur, fresh lime and Sammy’s sea salt.
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- The Desert Pear Margarita features the world’s first mezcal-tequila, Santo Mezquila, and is a bright purple that packs a punch. With a tropical prickly pear syrup to compliment the Santo Mezquila, this unique cocktail is sure to keep you shaking up more and more!
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Carnival Cocktails – Recreate Mardi Gras Vibes At Home
People all over the globe will soon be celebrating Mardi Gras with street parades, music and colorful costumes. Meaning ‘Fat Tuesday’ in French, Mardi Gras began as a religious day observed before Lent, when people were meant to use up all the fats in their home in preparation for fasting. Today, however, it has evolved to encompass weeks of partying, starting in early Jan and building to the climax of the official Mardi Gras, which is 21st February this year.
The most famous Mardi Gras carnivals are in New Orleans in the US and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where thousands of people descend on these cities to take part in the festivities and enjoy delicious party food and drinks.
For those who can’t make it to southern Louisiana, our mixologists at The Mixer have hand-picked the perfect cocktails to help recreate the carnival vibes at home.
How to Make a Classic Sazerac Cocktail
If you’re reading up on Sazerac cocktail ingredients, we’d like to welcome you to the very first page of known cocktail history. It is here that the mystery and magic of mixed drinks first started to unfold, so follow us on a jaunt down this most iconic memory lane if you please…
2 Oz Wild Turkey Rye Whiskey0.33 Oz absinthe or anise liqueur1 sugar cube per cocktailA few dashes of bitters per cocktailTo garnish, a lemon twist per cocktailIce1. Chill a rocks glass by filling it with ice and setting it aside as you prepare the rest of the cocktail2. Soak the sugar cube with the bitters and muddle it in a mixing glass, crushing the cube3. Add the Wild Turkey Rye Whiskey and stir4. Take the ice out of your chilled glass and rinse it with a small amount of absinthe – swirl the liquor around and then discard5. Pour the Wild Turkey Rye Whiskey mixture into the chilled, absinthe-rinsed glass6. Squeeze the lemon twist gently over the drink to release its oils – some will use it as a garnish on the rim of the glass afterward, but rarely drop it into the drink itself
Your Go-To French 75 Cocktail Recipe
The French 75 cocktail recipe has a colorful, multicultural origin story — it’s was dreamed up in New York City by a Scottish bartender who named it after a French field gun! Not to mention the fact that it was first stirred up at the height of American Prohibition of course…
The story goes that barkeep Harry MacElhone chose the name because the drink had a fair amount of kick, which he likened to the firepower of the French 75mm field gun that was used during World War I. Today, the French 75 martini is still enjoyed around the globe, with the same reputation for packing a strong punch.
The best French 75 cocktail recipe
French cocktails are classics for a reason – it’s glamour in a glass. To start you off here is a short and sweet explanation of what’s in a French 75 and how to make it at home:
1 Oz Gin2 Oz Champagne or prosecco0.5 Oz Lemon juice0.25 Teaspoon simple syrup (or to taste)Sugar and a lemon slice (for the rim of the glass)Maraschino cherry, to garnishIce1. Prepare the glass by running a slice of lemon around the rim and dipping it into a shallow bowl or saucer with sugar2. Add the gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a shaker with ice – cover and shake3. Strain the mixture into your prepared glass4. Top off with Champagne or prosecco5. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry and enjoy
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Summer Party Cocktail Recipes with Sparkling Ice
Summer is almost here, I guess you are searching for some summer party recipes. No matter it is for a big friends group party or just a party by yourself, it’s all fine, all you need is a glass of good drink! Sometimes, a good cocktail doesn’t need a lot of ingredients. What you need is pretty simple, but at least, you should have a bottle of Sparkling Ice by hand!
Spicy Sparkling Margarita
INGREDIENTS
2 parts Blanco Tequila
½ part Cointreau
3 slices of Jalapeño pepper
Juice of 1/8 lime
1 ½ parts Sparkling Ice Lemon Lime
Lola’s Lavender Lemonade
DIRECTIONS
Shake Tequila, Cointreau, lime juice and peppers with ice. Pour into rocks glass with salted rim and lime wedge. Top with Sparkling Ice Lemon Lime.INGREDIENTS
1 bottle Sparkling Ice Classic Lemonade
Fresh lemon juice
Honey
Lavender syrup (homemade or store-bought)
Dried lavender flowers, for garnish
Lemon slice, for garnishDIRECTIONS
Fill a glass with ice. Add Sparkling Ice Classic Lemonade until almost full. Add honey, lemon juice and lavender syrup to taste. Stir to combine. Sprinkle with dried lavender flowers and garnish with a lemon slice.
Pomegranate Margarita
INGREDIENTS
2oz tequila
2oz pomegranate juice
1oz lime juice
1oz simple syrup
Sparkling Ice Classic Lemonade
Vanilla flake salt rim, for garnish
Lime wedge, for garnishDIRECTIONS
Rim glass with a lime and dip into salt, fill glass with ice and set to the side. In an ice filled cocktail shaker, combine tequila, pomegranate juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and shake. Strain into glasses and top with Sparkling Ice Classic Lemonade, stir lightly to combine. Garnish with a lime wedge.
Cranberry Ginger Mockmosa
Get in the holiday spirit with this festive mocktail made with Sparkling Ice Cranberry Frost.INGREDIENTS4 oz orange juice, chilled
3 oz Sparkling Ice Cranberry Frost
Orange peelDIRECTIONS
Grab your champagne flute, add chilled orange juice, and Sparkling Ice cranberry frost. Garnish with an orange peel twist.
Orange Mango Sunrise
INGREDIENTS
Ice
1 lime wedge|
1 oz tequila
1 oz triple sec
Sparkling Ice Orange Mango
1 orange sliceDIRECTIONS
In a cocktail shaker, muddle orange and lime slice. Add tequila, triple sec, and ice and shake. Pour into a margarita glass and top with Sparkling Ice Orange Mango. Garnish with an orange slice and serve.
Sparkling Ice® is a fruity, flavorful sparkling water—without all the sugar. If you want to put a little sparklein your sip, look no further. With over 16 fruit flavors, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find the one for you.
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