Here are some of mine...
SIMPLE MINT JULEP
Ingredients
2 ½ oz. Maker’s Mark bourbon whiskey
6 large mint leaves
1 Tbsp. simple syrup
Combine the mint and simple syrup in a glass and muddle until aromatic. Put mixture in the bottom of a julep cup or Collins glass. Fill the cup up halfway with crushed ice. Add bourbon. Fill the cup up to the top with more crushed ice. Garnish with more mint and serve with a straw.
GEORGIA PEACH SLUSHY
Ingredients
12 mint leaves
3 fresh Georgia peaches, sliced and frozen overnight
juice from ½ a lemon
1 cup black tea bourbon
basil leaves
Preparation
Slice peaches and freeze overnight (can used packaged frozen peaches for easy preparation). In a food processor, add frozen peach slices, mint leaves, lemon juice, simple syrup, and bourbon. Blend, adding ice, until a slushy consistency forms. Scoop slush into glasses. Garnish with basil and peaches. Serve immediately.
BEULAH’S SPIKED SWEET TEA
Ingredients
1.75 oz. Evan Williams bourbon whiskey
1 oz. PAMA pomegranate liqueur
2 oz. black tea
5 oz. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. diced peaches
1 mint sprig
1 peach slice
In a mixing glass, combine lemon juice and peaches. Gently muddle until peaches break up. Next add whiskey, simple syrup, black tea, and ice. Shake until well chilled. Fill a Collins glass with crushed ice and strain over ice. Top with liqueur. Garnish with a fresh sprig of mint and a slice of peach.
SOUR SHINE
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Georgia Moonshine
1 oz. lemon juice
.5 oz. simple syrup
1 lemon twist
Preparation
Add all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain into a Collins glass and garnish with a lemon twist.
LONG ISLAND TEA
Ingredients
1/2 fluid ounce vodka
1/2 fluid ounce rum
1/2 fluid ounce gin
1/2 fluid ounce tequila
1/2 fluid ounce triple sec (orange-flavored liqueur)
1 fluid ounce sweet and sour mix
1 fluid ounce cola, or to taste
1 lemon slice
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour vodka, rum, gin, tequila, triple sec, and sour mix over ice; cover and shake. Pour cocktail into a Collins or hurricane glass; top with splash of cola for color. Garnish with a lemon slice.
OLD FASHIONED
Ingredients
4.5 ounces of Makers Mark or Jim Beam bourbon whiskey
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 sugar cube
Few dashes plain water
Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitters, add a dash of plain water.
Shake gently until dissolved.
Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey.
Garnish with orange slice, and a cocktail cherry.
JACK AND COKE
Ingredients
1/2 glass of Jack Daniels Bourbon whiskey
1.2 glass of Coca Cola
3 cubes of ice
ABSOLUTE STRESS
1 fluid ounce vodka
1 fluid ounce dark rum
1 fluid ounce peach schnapps
1 fluid ounce orange juice 1 fluid ounce cranberry juice
In a cocktail shaker, combine vodka, rum, peach liqueur, orange juice and cranberry juice. Shake well. Pour over ice in a tall glass and garnish with a slice of orange and a cherry.
GIN MARTINI
Ingredients
1 ounce dry vermouth
4 ounces gin
Fill a metal shaker with cracked ice. Pour in the dry vermouth, stir briefly, and strain out (this may be discarded). Add 4 ounces gin. Stir briskly for about 10 seconds, strain into chilled cocktail glass, and garnish
VODKA MARTINI
1 ounce dry vermouth
4 ounces vodka
Pour in the dry vermouth into a chilled glass, shake and pour away excess vermouth. Add 4 ounces vodka and shake gently for about 10 seconds, strain into chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with an olive or lemon twist and add ice.
BLOODY MARY
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup ice cubes
1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger vodka
3/4 cup spicy V8 juice
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 dash Tabasco sauce
salt and pepper to taste
1 stalk celery
2 stuffed green olives
BOILERMAKER
Pour a chilled mug full of your favorite beer, ice cold, and drop in a shot glass of bourbon.
ALABAMA SLAMMER
3/4 oz. amaretto
3/4 oz. vodka
3/4 oz. Southern Comfort
3/4 oz. sloe gin
grenadine
orange juice
Mix all ingredients in a shaker. Shake, strain over ice into a cocktail glass.
Enjoy any of these with a great cigar. I would suggest an expensive cigar from Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic or a Perez-Carillo from Miami, but now that the USA is opening relations with Cuba, try a fine Cuban cigar.
