Why Can't We Live Together?

Sade

 Original - Timmy Thomas

Pink Gin Tonic

Ingredients:

2 oz. Gin
1 lime wedge
5 oz. Tonic Water
1 splash Campari Bitters

Pour the gin and the tonic water into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes.
Stir well, top with Campari (to add more colour and taste), and garnish with a lime wedge.

haveacocktail.com/pink-gin-tonic

 The Rolling Stones
Paint It Black

RIP Charlie Watts

Arctic Summer

Ingredients:

3/4 oz. Apricot Brandy

1 1/2 oz. Gin

1 tsp. Grenadine

4 oz. Bitter Lemon *

Instructions:

Add ingredients to an ice filled highball glass.

Serve with a cherry and lemon slice.

Best served in a highball glass.

Arctic Summer Recipe (haveacocktail.com)

*Bitter Lemon-

Lemon soda that contains quinine, the same distinct additive in Tonic Water, to give it a more bitter flavor.

Focus - Hocus Pocus

 

A Midsummernight's Dream

Ingredients:

5 fresh strawberries
2 oz. (60 ml) Vodka 
1 oz.(30 ml) Cherry Brandy or Kirschwasser fruit brandy
1 tsp. strawberry liqueur
Schweppes Water

Method:

In a blender, blend strawberries until smooth.
In a shaker filled with ice, combine blended strawberries. Vodka, brandy and strawberry liqueur.
Shake well and pour into a a highball glass.  
Top with Schweppes water.  Garnish with fresh strawberry.

magicskillet/midsummer-nights-dream-cocktail/

Baby Please Don't Go - Them

 

Brandy Gump

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz. Brandy

1/2 oz. Lemon Juice

Splash of Grenadine

No garnish

Instructions:

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.

goodcocktails/recipes/mixed_drink

Summertime - Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday

 

Summertime

Ingredients:

4 cl Vodka
5 cl Orange Juice
5 cl Sprite

Mixture:

Fill a highball glass with ice.
Pour all ingredients over the ice.
Stir and serve.

drinksecrets/drinks/summertime

Willie Dixon - I Ain't Superstitious

 

Jeff Beck Group

Black Cat Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 oz. Blue Curacao
1 oz. Vodka
3 oz. Lemon Lime Soda
1 oz. Cranberry Juice
1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
Lime twist for garnish

Fill a shaker halfway with ice.  Add curacao, vodka and lime juice.  

Shake until mixed well. Add soda and stir. Pour cranberry juice into a tall glass.  Over the back of a spoon, gently strain the mixed ingredients over the cranberry juice, being careful not to completely mix the two for presentation.  Serve with a cocktail stirrer and a lime twist for garnish.  Cheers!

Happy Friday the 13th!

kegworks/blog/meow-the-black-cat-cocktail

Seals & Croft - Summer Breeze

 

The Isley Brothers

Summer Breeze (II)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Kettle One Oranje Ⓡ Flavored Vodka

1.5 oz. fresh orange juice

1.5 oz. cranberry juice

Method:

Build a rocks glass over ice.

Garnish with an orange wedge.

ketelone/vodka-drinks/summer-breeze/

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

 

Almond Iced Tea

The Almond Iced Tea is a relaxing tea made from Beefeater 24 Gin, Green Tea, Orgeat Syrup, Simple Syrup and Lemon Juice and served over ice in a highball glass.

Ingredients:

2 oz. Gin (Beefeater 24)
3/4 oz. Orgeat Syrup 
1/4 oz. Simple Syrup
1/4 oz. Lemon Juice
Tea: Sencha

Garnish: Lemon

Directions:

Shake gin, orgeat syrup, simple syrup and lemon juice with ice in a cocktail shaker.
Strain into a highball glass full of ice and fill with Sencha tea.
Garnish with a lemon slice.

completecocktails/AlmondIcedTea