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Summer Drinks
Summer (wet season) is here and we’ve got many a liquid solution to cooling you down from the inside out. There are those who believe any cocktail is refreshing, and they have a point. But when you're strategically planning your work day around air-conditioning, unsure if you did actually towel yourself off after the 3rd shower of the day, or catching some rays in the sunshine between showers, some ingredients do quench the thirst better than others.
First, consider fruit. There's a reason why fruit tea and lemonade are popular in the summer months. They rely on the sweet-and-tart balance that only acid (lemon/lime/grapefruit)—and sugar—can provide. This is the formula for a sour (a.k.a. sour mix). Drinks like the Margarita and the Daiquiri have spawned a million cocktails in this category.
When it comes to home bar mixing, no need to stress if you can't decide what fruit to use, try adding whatever you have lying around to drinks like the Daiquiri.
Daiquiri
60ml The Grove White Rum
30ml Lime Juice
15ml Sugar Syrup
fruit
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake until chilled. Double strain into a coup glass.
Gin & Tonic
Or get creative with your garnish of a classic
Gin & Tonic to super charge your summer buzz!
45ml The West Winds Gin
(Sabre/Cutlass/Broadside)
90ml Tonic
Garnish as you please!
French 75
Bubbles are another well-known refresher: Try a classic Gin, Lemon sugar and Champagne (or Prosecco lets be realistic), and you've got a French 75.
30ml The West Winds Sabre
15ml Lemon Juice
7.5ml Sugar Syrup
Top Sparkling Wine
Shake The West Winds Sabre, lemon and sugar syrup in a shaker. Strain into a champagne flute. Fill rest on flute with prosecco.
Don't let brown spirits scare you, either: The international boom in cocktails has, in fact, inspired many bartenders to make lively, effervescent drinks with bourbon, rum, and Scotch, and to reinvent classics like the Old Fashioned (big on Mad Men), the Manhattan, and the Old Cuban.
Old Cuban
60ml The Grove Dark Rum
30ml Lime Juice
15ml Sugar Syrup
2 dash Angostura bitters
mint leaves
top Prosecco
to a shaker add The Grove Dark Rum, lime, sugar, bitters, mint and ice. Shake until chilled. Double strain into a coup glass. Fill rest of glass with Prosecco.
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