If you’re sick of the same old cocktails that seem to be on every bar menu, then you need to try these newer, trendier cocktails that will give you a fresh experience instead of your usuals.
1. Dark and Stormy
This stunning combination of rum and ginger is the perfect evening refresher. Fill your glass up with ice, squeeze in your lime, and add your ginger beer, until the glass is almost full.
Pour in your rum and do not stir. Watch the rum sit at the top of your glass and sink like a ship!
Ingredients:
- 30ml Plantation Original Dark Rum
- Ginger Ale
- ½ Lime, cut into wedges
- Crushed ice
2. Orange and Rum
This dark and fruity cocktail packs a punch. Place your rum, Amaro Montenegro and vermouth in a cocktail shaker and stir until chilled.
Pour through a strainer into a glass with ice. Top with the grapefruit peel twist, and enjoy this bitter, molasses rich beverage.
Ingredients:
- 45ml Saint James Gold Rum
- 30ml Amaro Montenegro
- 30ml Giulio Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
- 1 dash of orange bitters
- 1 orange or lemon peel twist
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3. Pomegranate Margarita
This fruity margarita will be your new go-to drink. Pour your tequila, lime juice, honey and salt into a cocktail shaker and shake hard.
Strain into a glass with your crushed ice. It’s almost too easy! Impress your friends with this sweet and sour twist on a margarita.
Ingredients:
- 60ml blanco tequila, such as Casamigos
- 30ml pomegranate juice
- 20ml fresh lime juice
- 15ml honey
- Crushed ice
- A pinch of salt
4. Raspberry Refresher
Try this refreshing berry drink to make those sweltering afternoons feel a little bit better.
Add your cranberry juice and mint tea into a glass with your ice. Top it off with whiskey and a squeeze of lime. Enjoy in the sun!
Ingredients:
- 30ml Grants Triple Wood Blended Whiskey
- Cranberry Juice
- Mint tea
- ½ Lime, cut into wedges
- Crushed ice
5. Sparkling Jammy Splash
This bubbly cocktail is easy to make and even easier to drink. Muddle the tequila, lime juice and jam in a cocktail shaker and then fill it with ice to chill.
Place more jam into your glass, add ice and then strain your tequila mixture into your glass. Top it off with sparkling water, add your peach slices and you’re all done!
- 45ml tequila
- 1 lime, juices
- 2 tablespoons jam of choice
- 150ml sparkling mineral water
- 1 fresh peach, sliced and grilled
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