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Colorful Cocktails to Put Some Spring In Your Sip

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The days are getting longer and brighter and there’s no better time to mix up a delicious and vibrant cocktail and sip your way into the new season!

Cutwater Habanero Vodka Honeydew

  • 2oz Cutwater Habanero Vodka
  • .75oz fresh lime juice
  • .75oz honey syrup*
  • 2 honeydew melon balls

Directions: Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Muddle the melon balls, add ice, and shake until cold. Strain over fresh ice and garnish with a lime wheel and a melon ball. – *2 parts honey, 1 part water

Seagram’s Basically Vitamins Bloody Mary

  • 2 oz. Seagram’s 100 Proof Vodka 
  • 1⁄2 oz. Puréed Spinach
  • 1⁄2 oz. Green Tomato Juice
  • 1⁄2 oz. Carrot Juice
  • 1⁄2 oz. Lemon Juice
  • 1⁄2 oz. Aloe Vera Juice
  • 1⁄2 tsp. Minced Garlic
  • Cubed Ice

Directions: Rim a highball glass with celery salt and fill the glass with ice. Combine all ingredients in the glass over the ice and stir with a bar spoon. Garnish with a celery stalk, sliced carrot, parsley, cucumber, and lemon rounds, and an edible flower.

Seagram’s Strawberry Mint Pink Lemonade Punch – Courtesy of Beautiful Booze

  • ½ bottle of Seagram’s Extra Smooth
  • ¼ cup of mint syrup
  • 2 cups of Pink Lemonade
  • ½ cup of soda water
  • ½ cup of chopped Strawberries
  • Garnish with lemon slices and springs of mint

Directions: Add all ingredients to a pitcher over ice. Stir then garnish with lemon slices and mint sprigs.

Hoppin’ Good Margarita

  • 1 ½ oz. Crystal Head Onyx 
  • ½ oz. Mezcal
  • ¾ oz. Agave
  • ¾ oz. Fresh Lime Juice
  • Muddled 8 Raspberries + 4-5 Mint Leaves

Directions: Muddle ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake on ice. Double strain into a rocks glass with king cube. Garnish with a raspberry skewer and mint crown.

Pom Punch

Directions: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake lightly, pour over fresh ice, and top with chopped seasonal fruit.

For Punch Bowl: Multiply ingredients by the number of desired servings. Combine ingredients in a punch bowl, stir. Chop fresh seasonal fruit and float in a bowl. Serve over fresh ice with chopped fruit floating in it.

Cutwater Spirits Piña Colada

  • 1.5oz Cutwater White Rum
  • 1oz float Bali Hai Tiki Dark Rum
  • 1.5oz Fresh Pineapple Juice
  • 1.5oz Coconut Syrup
  • .5oz Fresh Lime Juice

Directions: Add all ingredients except Bali Hai Tiki Dark Rum to a cocktail shaker. Add crushed ice and give the tin a quick shake then pour into a rocks glass. Add more crushed ice and float Bali Hai Tiki Dark Rum. Garnish with 3 pineapple fronds and a flower.

Novo Fogo Paraná Punch

  • 1.5 oz Novo Fogo Chameleon Cachaça 
  • 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
  • 1 oz Erva-Mate Tea Syrup (recipe below)
  • 1.5 oz Sparkling Wine
  • 5 Fresh Mint Leaves, plus extra for garnish
  • Lemon Twist, garnish

Directions: Add all ingredients except for sparkling wine in a shaker and shake with ice. Pour over ice and top with sparkling wine, stirring to combine. Garnish with fresh mint and lemon twist.

Erva-Mate tea Syrup

  • 1 cup hot water
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 6 bags mate tea bags (such as Guayaki)

Directions: Combine ingredients to make a hot syrup for 15-20 minutes, then remove the tea bags and chill the syrup for up to two weeks. 

Cutwater Spirits Tequila Watermelon Margarita

  • 2 oz Cutwater Tequila Blanco
  • 1 oz fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 oz agave syrup
  • 1/2 oz watermelon juice
  • *optional dash of spicy bitters

Directions: Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake until cold and strain over fresh ice in a Tajin rimmed glass. Garnish with a watermelon slice.

Tanteo Tequila Lavender Jalapeno Cocktail

  • 2 oz. Tanteo Jalapeño Tequila
  • 1 oz. Lavender Syrup
  • 3⁄4 o. Fresh Lime Juice

Method: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with a lime slice or a Jalapeño slice.

Corralejo Tequila Spicy Pineapple Paloma

  • 2 ounces Corralejo Silver
  • ½ ounce grapefruit juice
  • ½ ounce lime juice
  • ½ sliced Serrano pepper
  • ¾ ounce agave syrup
  • Pineapple soda (to top)
  • Tajín (for rim)

Directions: Rim your glass with Tajín. Add all ingredients except the bitters into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake hard to chill and combine ingredients. Strain into your glass over fresh ice. Top with pineapple soda. Garnish & Enjoy!

Proper Spring Punch

  • 375ml Bottle of Proper No. Twelve
  • 3/4 cup Lemonade
  • 1/2 cup Lemon Juice
  • 1 cup Red Wine
  • 3/4 cup Seltzer
  • 2 Lemons, sliced into wheels
  • Mint Leaves

Directions: Combine Ingredients. Shake or stir and then serve over ice.

Woodford Porch Swing

  • 1 ½ oz. Straight Bourbon Whiskey
  • 3/4 oz. Lemon Juice
  • 1/2 oz. Honey
  • 6 oz. Peach Tea

Method: Combine ingredients into a tall glass and stir. Garnish with a slice of peach or lemon wheel.

Cutwater Frozen Marg Pops

Cutwater Spirits’ newest release Frozen Margarita Pops (Lime, Mango, Strawberry + Pineapple) hits shelves as a variety 12-pack nationwide on 3/1. Each Frozen Margarita Pop is 7% ABV and just 80 calories.

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