Bees Knees
1 ½ oz Gin
1 oz HipStirs Lavender Haze Syrup
1 oz Honey Syrup (1:1 Honey & Water)
1 oz Lemon Juice
Add all ingredients to shaker, add ice and shake. Strain into glass over new ice and garnish with lemon zest
Tools Used: Shaker, Hawthorne Strainer, Jigger/Measuring Device, Ice, Lemon Zest
Barton Springs
1 ½ oz Hendrick’s Gin
¾ oz Lime Juice
¾ oz HipStirs Blackberry Mint Syrup
Cucumber Slices
Slice 3 1/4inch cucumber slices, combine ingredients and 2 cucumber slices in tin, lightly muddle cucumber slices, add ice, shake, double strain into coupe, garnish with remaining cucumber slice
Tools Used: Shaker Tins, Hawthorne Strainer, Tea Strainer, Jigger/Measuring Device, Muddler, Knife, Ice, Coupe, Fresh English (Seedless) Cucumber
Soco
1 ½ oz Gin
¼ oz Aquavit
¼ oz Creme de Mur
¾ oz HipStirs Blackberry Mint Syrup
1oz Lime Juice
Combine Ingredients in tin sans creme de mur, add ice, shake, strain into glass, add fresh ice, sink creme de mur (slowly pour down the back of bar spoon), garnish with mint plouche and blackberry
Tools Used: Shaker Tins, Hawthorne Strainer, Jigger/Measuring Device, Bar Spoon, Ice, Rocks Glass, Blackberries, Fresh Mint
Blackberry Gin + Tonic
2 oz Gin [Rose Gin is great with this recipe, too]
½ oz HipStirs Blackberry Mint Syrup
4 oz Tonic Water
Mix all ingredients, except tonic water, into shaker tins and add ice. Seal the tins and shake for 6-9 seconds. Strain with a hawthorne strainer into a tall glass and top with the tonic water.
Fun Fact: just add 1 ½ oz lemon juice to change this drink from a G+T to a Tom Collins!
Tools Used: Shaker Tins, Jigger/Measuring Device, Hawthorne Strainer, Tall Glass, Ice
Jack Frost
1 heaping tbsp of Peppermint Ice Cream
2 oz Pineapple juice
½ oz Hipstirs Lavender Haze Syrup
1 tsp Lily’s Blue Curacao for color
Add ingredients to a blender and blend for 10-15 seconds. Rim a coupe glass with buttercream icing and crushed candy canes
Cranberry Sour
2 oz Gin
1 oz Lemon Juice
¾ oz Hipstirs Cranberry Pie Syrup
¾ oz Benedictine
4 dash Cranberry Bitters
1 Egg White
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake hard to chill and dilute. Strain ingredients into a fresh cocktail shaker with no ice. Shake a second time hard to add extra air and froth the cocktail. Strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with cranberries on a skewer and add a few drops of cranberry bitters to the foam.
Taylor’s Version
1 oz Gin
1 oz Mr Black Cold Brew Liqueur
1 oz Campari
¾ oz Hipstirs Lavender Haze
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
Lavender Elderflower Snow Globe
1 ½ oz Gin
½ oz Elderflower Liqueur
½ oz Hipstirs Lavender Haze Syrup
4 oz Fever Tree Elderflower Tonic Water
Add all ingredients except tonic to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into your snow globe glass. Add the fever tree to fill.