Refreshing Spring Cocktails To Try This Season!

Spring has sprung and endless days in the sun have begun! And what makes an afternoon by the pool even better? A refreshing cocktail to sip on that will make you feel like you're on vacation. From floral and fruity to smokey and flavorful, here are the most seasonally appropriate cocktails to welcome in the warm months! 

Cherry Blossom

Garnish with crushed peppercorn on the froth.

 

St. Germain Spritzer

Ingredients

1 oz St. Germain Liquor
1 oz Campari
7 oz sparkling white wine (or club soda)

Optional Garnishes:

Cherries
Apricot slices
Fresh mint leaves

Instructions

Fill a cocktail glass with ice. Add in St. Germain, Campari, and sparkling white wine.
Garnish with cherries or apricots and serve right away.

Image and recipe courtesy of Vegetarian Ventures

Kentucky Buck

Ingredients

2 strawberries, hulled

½ oz. (15 ml) 1:1 simple syrup (see headnote)

2 oz (60 ml) bourbon

¾ oz (22 ml) fresh lemon juice

2 dashes Angostura bitters

3 oz (90 ml) ginger beer

Strawberry, to garnish

 

Instructions

Gently muddle the strawberries with the Simple Syrup in a cocktail shaker

Add the bourbon, lemon juice, and Angostura bitters

Fill with ice and shake vigorously for 10–15 seconds

Double strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice

Top with ginger beer

Garnish with a fresh strawberry.

Image and recipe courtesy of epicurious.

Elderflower & Herb Cooler

Ingredients

2 thyme sprigs, leaves only
2 rosemary sprigs, leaves only
8 edible flowers (such as pansies, rose petals and borage)
50ml elderflower cordial
150ml elderflower liqueur
150ml gin
Ice
330ml can sparkling water

Instructions

Pop the herbs and flowers into the holes of an ice cube tray, fill with water and freeze for 2-3 hrs or until frozen solid.

Pour the elderflower cordial, elderflower liqueur, gin and a large handful of ice cubes into a large jug

Stir until the outside of the jug feels cold then strain into 4 tall glasses or champagne flutes

Top with the soda and add a few more ice cubes and the floral ones too

Image and recipe courtesy of BBC Good Food

Basil Martini

 

Ingredients

2 oz. Plymouth dry gin ¹⁄₂ oz

Cocchi Americano
¹⁄₂ oz. Dolin dry vermouth
1 dash orange bitters
1 large basil leaf

Instructions

In a large glass, combine gin, Cocchi, vermouth, bitters, and 2 cups ice

Stir for 15 seconds and strain into a chilled cocktail glass

Place basil in the glass

Image and recipe courtesy of Saveur