Mezcal Cocktail Recipes

National Mezcal Day is Monday, October 21, and this smoky agave spirit is perfect to take your cocktail menus into the fall. Plus, mezcal is a great spirit to introduce your tequila-loving guests to who may be looking to try something different.

We've collected a number of mezcal recipes to add to your cocktail menus!

Zomoz Paloma

Ingredients:

2 oz Zomoz Mezcal

½ oz Lime Juice

½ oz Agave Nectar (optional)

4 oz Q Mixers Grapefruit Soda (or East Imperial Grapefruit Soda) 

50/50 blend of Salt & Tajin rim

Grapefruit Wedge or Twist 

Directions: 

1. Rim glass with Salt & Tajin blend. 
2. Combine all ingredients (except Q Grapefruit Soda) in tin. 
3. Lightly shake with ice. 
4. Add grapefruit soda and strain into glass. 
5. Garnish with grapefruit wedge or twist. 

Brand New Cadillac

Ingredients:

2 oz Cazadores Blanco Tequila

.25 oz Illegal Añejo Mezcal

1 oz Lime

.75 oz Agave Syrup

.25 oz Dirty Sue Premium Olive Juice

Directions:

1. Add tequila, lime, Dirty Sue and agave syrup in a shaker tin with ice.
2. Shake hard.
3. Dump into Margarita glass.
4. Float mezcal on top.
5. Garnish with a lime and a Dirty Sue cocktail olive.

Oaxacan Passion

Ingredients:

1 whole passionfruit
1.5 oz Banhez Espadin & Barril Mezcal
.5 Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur
1 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz simple syrup
1 large ice cube or whiskey rock

Directions:

1. Have your glass ready with your large ice cube.
2. We want to cut the passion fruit right in half and scoop out the pulp and seeds into your cocktail shaker.
3. The rest is easy, just add all ingredients to the shaker with some ice and shake the heck out of that thing. 
4. The goal is to loosen and break down the juicy membrane, which house a lot of seeds. 
5. Strain your drink through a fine mesh over a large fresh ice cube.

Coco Mezcal 'Rita

Ingredients:

2 oz. mezcal

1 oz. Monin Coconut Syrup

1 oz. fresh lime juice

Garnish: Coconut, Black lava salt , Lime wheel

Directions:

1. Fill serving glass full of ice.
2. Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
3. Cap, shake and strain into serving glass with ice.
4. Add garnish and serve.

Mezcal Unión Hibiscus Margarita

Ingredients: 

1 oz Mezcal Unión Uno

0.5 oz Cointreau

0.5 oz Ancho Reyes Original

0.5 oz hibiscus and cardamom syrup

1 oz pomegranate juice

0.75 oz lime juice

Directions:

1. Rim a glass with pink peppercorn salt. 
2. Add all ingredients to the shaker. 
3. Add ice and shake. 
4. Double strain into rimmed glass. 
5. Use pineapple triangles as a garnish. 

Birds Of Paradise 

Ingredients:

2 oz Union Mezcal

1 oz Red Wine

1 oz Red Wine Reduction

0.5 oz Lime Juice

Directions: 

1. Combine all ingredients into a shaker tin, filled with ice. 
2. Shake and strain into a wine glass over cubed ice. 
3. Top with grapefruit soda, garnish with a dehydrated lime wheel, grapes and serve.

Naughty Toddy

Ingredients:

1 oz. Dos Hombres Mezcal

.5 oz. Fresh lemon juice 
1/4oz. Honey 
1oz. Whiskey 
20z. 100% Natural apple juice

Directions: 

1. Mix all ingredients and pour into a teapot or pot on a stove and heat. 
2. Use caution as the cocktail will be hot. 
3. Pour into a coffee glass. 
4. Garnish with a lemon wheel. 

Mezcolada

Ingredients:

2oz of La Luna Mezcal

1oz of Pineapple Juice

1/2oz of Giffard Orgeat

1/2oz of Coconut Cream

1/2oz of Fresh Lemon Juice 

Directions:

1. Shaken and poured on the rocks in a Collin’s glass. 
2. Garnish with star anise and a mint sprig. 

Spiced Old Fashioned

Ingredients:
2 oz Mezcal Campante
0.25 oz St. Elizabeth allspice dram
2 dashes angostura bitters
2 dashes orange bitters
For garnish: orange twist & a sprig of rosemary

Directions:

1. Light the end of the rosemary sprig until it starts to smoke. 
2. Cover with rocks glass to trap the smoke for a few minutes. 
3. Add all ingredients into the smoked glass with one large ice cube. 
4. Stir until completely diluted.
5. Garnish with an orange twist and the rosemary.

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