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Blackberry Bourbon Smash

Blackberry Bourbon Smash

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1 oz Bourbon
1 oz Blackberry Brandy
5 Blackberries
1 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
4 oz Club Soda

Directions:

Gently muddle the blackberries in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the bourbon, brandy, lemon juice, simple syrup and some ice cubes. Shake until cold. Pour into a glass and top with the club soda. Garnish with blackberry and a lemon wheel.

Blackberry Cucumber Mule

Blackberry Cucumber Mule

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 ounces Vodka
3 Blackberries
2 Cucumber
10 Mint
3/4 ounce Lemon Juice
1/2 ounce Simple Syrup
2 1/2 ounces Ginger Beer
Mint

Directions:

Muddle blackberries, cucumber, and mint in the smaller half of a cocktail shaker. Add vodka, lemon juice, and simple syrup and fill with ice. Shake until well chilled, about 12 seconds. Double-strain into an ice-filled copper mule mug, pour the ginger beer down the side of the glass, and give it a gentle stir. Garnish with mint sprig.

Independence Spice

Blackberry Spice

Blackberry Spice

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Basil Hayden's Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
0.5 Part Fresh Lemon Juice
0.75 Part Simple Syrup
7 Blackberries
7 Mint Leaves
2 - 3 Parts Sparkling Wine

Muddle 6 blackberries and 6 mint leaves in a Boston Shaker with ¼ part simple syrup. In the mixing glass, combine Basil Hayden's Bourbon, lemon juice and remaining simple syrup and add to the muddled blackberries and mint leaves. Add ice and shake. Double strain into a Collins glass with fresh crushed ice. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with a skewered mint leaf and blackberry.

Blackberry Stinger

Blackberry Stinger

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Vena's Blackberry Stinger Bourbon Infusion*
.75 oz lemon juice
.5 oz Sour Simple Syrup
3 dashes Vena's Bitter Armando
Shake and pour into a lowball glass with ice and top with seltzer
Garnish with a lemon twist and two blackberries on a cocktail pick

Recipe provided by Vena's Fizz House

* you can make your own infusion with freeze-dried blackberry, orange, and ginger. Add cane sugar, and granulated honey. 
 

Blackberry Whisky Lemonade

Blackberry Whisky Lemonade

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
2 oz Crown Royal
2 oz Lemon Juice
1.5 oz Blackberry Simple Syrup
2 oz Tonic Water or Sparkling Wine
Garnish with Mint, Lemon, and Fresh Blackberries

Directions:
1. In a shaker with ice, add Crown Royal, lemon juice, blackberry simple syrup.
2. Shake and strain into an ice-filled glass and top with tonic water or sparkling wine.
3. Garnish with a skewer of Mint, Lemon, and Fresh Blackberries.

Blend 802 Cosmo

Blend 802 Cranberry Cocktail

Blend 802 Cranberry Cocktail

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
2 oz Smugglers' Notch Gin
1/2 oz Cointreau Orange Liqueur
2 oz Cranberry Juice
1 tsp Fresh Lime Juice

Instructions: Pour the gin, Cointreau and juices into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Add a lemon twist and enjoy.

Blinker

Blinker

Blinker

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Grapefruit Jalapeno Svedka
0.75 Part Grenadine
0.75 Part Grapefruit Juice

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Garnish with grapefruit peel.

Blood & Sand cocktail

Blood & Sand

Blood & Sand

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Dewars 12 Year Special Reserve
0.75 oz Maraschino Liqueur
0.75 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Blood Orange Juice

Directions:

Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Blood & Sand cocktail

Blood & Sand

Blood & Sand

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1 oz Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky
0.75 oz Orange Juice
0.75 oz Cherry Heering
0.75 oz Sweet Vermouth

Directions:

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice, stir to chill. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with an orange twist.

Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

Mix It Yourself:

0.75 oz The Glenrothes Select Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky
0.75 oz Sweet vermouth
0.75 oz Cherry Heering
0.75 oz Orange Juice

Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice.
Shake, and strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass.
Garnish with an orange peel.

Blood Orange "Sunset Falls" Margarita

Blood Orange "Sunset Falls" Margarita

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Milagro Reposado Core Tequila
0.5 oz Solerno® Blood Orange Liqueur
3 oz Lemon Sour
0.75 oz Perfect Blood Orange Puree
3 Basil Leaves
1 Lime Wheel

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into glass. Garnish with lime wheel. Enjoy!

Blood Orange Bourbon

Blood Orange Bourbon

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon
1 oz Blood Orange Juice
1 oz Simple Syrup
1.5 oz Lemon Juice

Directions:
Shake ingredients with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a blood orange slice

Blood Orange Mule

Blood Orange Mule

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Vodka
1 oz Blood Orange Juice
1 oz Ginger Beer
1-2 Mint
1-2 tsp Honey

Mix all ingredients, except ginger beer, in a shaker with ice. Top with ginger beer and enjoy!

Blood Orange Paloma 1 Liter Batch

Blood Orange Paloma 1 Liter Batch

Blood Orange Paloma 1 Liter Batch

Mix It Yourself:

  • 12OZ BLANCO TEQUILA
  • 4½OZ RUBY RED GRAPEFRUIT JUICE
  • 3OZ BLOOD ORANGE JUICE
  • 3OZ HONEY SYRUP
  • 12OZ SELTZER

Directions

  1. Combine everything except seltzer with ice and stir vigorously, tops with soda.
  2. To be served from a 1 Liter juice carafe, and garnish with grapefruit and blood orange slices inside the punch.

Blood Orange Sidecar

Blood Orange Sidecar

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.5oz Cognac
.75oz Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur
.75oz Lemon Juice

Directions:

In a shaker full of ice, add all the ingredients. Stir until cold, strain into a coup glass, and serve up. Garnish with a lemon twist

maine sunset margarita

Blood Orange Sunset Margarita

Blood Orange Sunset Margarita

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Milagro Reposado Tequila
0.75 oz Lime Juice
0.75 oz Lemon Juice
1 oz Blood Orange Juice
0.75 oz Agave Nectar
1 Orange Wheel

Shake all ingredients vigorously with ice and strain into rocks glass. Garnish w/ blood orange wheel

Blood Orange Whiskey Sour

Blood Orange Whiskey Sour

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Whiskey
1.5 oz Blood Orange Juice
1 tsp Lemon Juice
1 tsp Simple Syrup
1 Maraschino Cherries
1 Orange Wheel

Pour the whiskey, blood orange juice, lemon juice, and simple syrup into shaker. Shake until cold. Pour into chilled glass and garnish with orange wheel. Enjoy!

Blood Orange-Basil Cosmo

Blood Orange-Basil Cosmo

Blood Orange-Basil Cosmo

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz. vodka
.5 oz. St. Germain liqueur
.5 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. blood orange juice
½ tsp. grated ginger
4 basil leaves

Muddle blood orange juice and basil in a shaker. Add remaining ingredients with ice and shake. Strain into a glass and garnish with a slice of fresh ginger.

Photo Credit: Russell Caron Wedding Photography

Bloody Beam

Bloody Beam

Bloody Beam

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Jim Beam Original
2 Basil Leaves
Fee Brothers® Barrel-Aged Bitters
0.75 Part Cinnamon Simple Syrup
4 Dashes Worcestershire sauce
Lemon Wedge
Rim Glass Tajin spice

In a mixing glass muddle the sauces, spices and basil leaves. Add all remaining ingredients and roll back and forth with ice in a mixing tin. Pour over ice in glass rimmed with Tajin spice. Optional: Substitute V8 Light Mix for Bloody Mary Mix.

Bloody Ceasar

Bloody Ceasar

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Vodka
4 oz Clamato Juice
2 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
2 dashes Tobasco
to taste (optional) Horseradish
Garnish: Cucumber
Garnish: Lime
Garnish: Celery
To rim glass: Celery Salt

Directions:

  1. Coat the rim of a tall glass with celery salt, fill with ice and set aside.
  2. Add the vodka, Clamato juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco and horseradish into a mixing glass with ice.
  3. Pour back and forth into another mixing glass a few times to combine.
  4. Strain into the prepared glass.
  5. Garnish with a cucumber spear, lime wedge and celery stalk.

Source: Liquor.com

Bloody Maria

Bloody Maria

Bloody Maria

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Casamigos Blanco
2.5 oz Bloody Mary Mix
1 oz Lemon Juice
4 Dashes Worcester
4 Basil Leaves

Combine all ingredients into tin shaker. Dry shake (no ice). Strain into a Collins glass. Add fresh ice. Garnish with lemon wheel, basil leaf and serrano.

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