Cocktail of the Week #7 & #8

So your patience reaps double the reward this week. Things are starting to warm up here. I wanted some refreshing drinks to share this time around. So first I have a drink I constructed while challenging myself not to use anything lemon-lime, but still make a great well-balanced tasting tequila cocktail.

The Bartlett Tequila Daisy

1 1/4 oz. Cazadores Blanco Tequila
1/4 oz. golden raspberry simple syrup
3 Tsp. bartlett pear
1 oz. grapefruit juice
1 dash peach bitters
2 oz. soda

In a shaker glass muddle pear with simple syrup. Add liquor, juice, bitters, and ice. Shake and strain into highball filled with ice. Fill with soda. Garnish with a pear slice if desired.


The word margarita comes from the word spanish word "marguerite" meaning Daisy in English. A daisy is a cocktail with sugar, a citrus juice, and a raspberry syrup or grenadine. In this case I used some golden raspberries from a bush I've been growing in a simple syrup.

And next we have a buck. A buck is any drink, typically served in a highball with lime juice added.

The Crimson Tarragon Buck

6 Blackberries
2 sprigs of fresh Terragon
2 oz. soda water
1 1/2 oz. Hendricks or Millers Gin
Squeeze of lime

Mix blackberries, Terragon and soda in a shaker. Muddle. Add gin, strain over ice, and squeeze lime into highball. Garnish with a blackberry wrapped In a Terragon leaf.

Happy Drinking!

Cocktail of the Week #5

A day late, this cocktail is a special request from my friend Dan. He asked me if I had any cucumber based cocktails in my arsenal of beverages. Well yes! I gleefully responded. This beverage was created to fill the void in my life when I had no access to Pimm's #1 (a gin based spirit with some secret botanicals). Without further ado... The Hendrick's Cup.

2 oz. Hendricks Gin
1/8 cup Peeled cucumber
1 dash of Fee Bros. Rhubarb Bitters
Ginger ale

In a shaker tin, muddle the gin, the cucumber and bitters. Add ice, shake well. And double strain (both a Hawthorne and a fine mesh strainer) into a glass cordial coffee mug, fill the mug with ice, top off with ginger ale and garnish with a cucumber slice, or two. Sip, relax, get a spa treatment and repeat.