Cocktails To Make Your Memorial Day Memorable

Liberty and Justice for All
Created by Manny Hinojosa

3/4 oz. Woodford Reserve Bourbon
1 oz. Disaronno
1 oz. The Perfect Purée Cherry Puree
3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
1 1/2 oz. cranberry juice

Add all ingredients into a mixing glass. Add ice, shake and strain into a tall glass with fresh ice. Garnish with fresh berries and an orange slice.

Patriotic Cooler
The Cocktail Guru Jonathan Pogash

1 1/2 oz. Van Gogh Cool Peach Vodka
1 oz. Pomegranate juice
2 oz. Ginger Ale or Ginger Beer

Build all ingredients over ice into a rocks glass.  Garnish with a lime wedge.

Black Cherry American Dream
Created by Effen Vodka

1 1/2 parts Effen Black Cherry Vodka
3/4 part Dekuyper Peachtree Schnapps Liqueur
1 1/2 parts Organic Apple Juice
1/2 part Lemon Juice
3 Basil Leaves
 
In a mixing glass, combine all ingredients and shake with ice.  Strain into a tall glass over ice.  Garnish with cherry and peach slice.

Light Lemon Sparkler
Created by Smirnoff

1 1/2 oz. Smirnoff Sorbet Light Lemon
3 oz. Tonic

Fill Glass with ice.  Add Smirnoff Sorbet Light Lemon and tonic. Garnish with a Lemon wheel

Stars and Stripes
Created by Lucid Absinthe

5 to 7 Fresh blueberries
1 oz. Stoli Blueberi Vodka
1/4 oz. Lucid Absinthe
1/4 oz. Simple syrup (one part sugar, one part water)
Splash of lemon juice, G.E. Massenez Framboise Sauvage Raspberry Brandy, Ginger beer

In a shaker, muddle the blueberries. Add the vodka, absinthe, syrup and lemon juice, and fill with ice. Shake, and pour (unstrained) into a highball glass. Drizzle with brandy and top with ginger beer. Garnish with one sugar cube.

Colonel Colada
Created by TY KU

2 oz. TY KU Coconut Sake
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
Fresh Muddled Pineapple

Muddle pineapple in cocktail shaker. Add TY KU Coconut Sake, pineapple Juice and ice. Hard Shake. Serve over ice.

Firework Fizz
Created by Jon Gasparini

1 1/2 oz. SKYY Infusions Grape Vodka
1 tsp. raw sugar
4 slices of ginger, peeled
4 blackberries
Splash of ginger ale

Muddle blackberries, ginger, and sugar in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and vodka. Shake vigorously and strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with ginger ale, and garnish with blackberries.

The Yankee Doodle
Created by SKYY Vodka

1 1/2 oz. SKYY Infusions Coconut vodka
3 oz. of coconut water
3/4 oz. lime juice
8 mint leaves
Garnish: lime wheel

Muddle mint and vodka in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, lime juice, and coconut water. Shake quickly and pour into a highball glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.