Herbs can be used to add a special, fresh flavor to your cocktails, so we decided to experiment with them. Here’s the best drinks of the TDN: Herb inventions. Be sure to vote for your favorite!
Lemon Stinger Swizzle
- 10 lemon balm leaves
- 0.5 ounces simple syrup
- 0.5 ounces falernum
- 2 ounces gin
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 dash Fee’s lemon bitters (optional)
- Peychaud’s bitters
Muddle 10 lemon balm leaves with 0.5 ounce simple. Add 0.5 ounces falernum, 2 ounces gin, juice of half a lemon, optional dash Fees lemon bitters.Shake with ice,strain onto new crushed ice, top with several dashes Peychauds.
Sailor’s Salvation
- 0.5 oz Clement VSOP (sub good rum)
- 0.5 oz Appleton Extra
- 0.5 oz Lemon Hart 151 (sub more whatever)
- 0.5 oz lemon
- 0.5 oz lime
- 0.5 oz cinnamon syrup
- 0.5 oz vanilla syrup
- 8 drops Root (sub absinthe)
- 4 leaves basil
- 4 leave mint
- 1 dash Bitter Truth aromatic bitters (sub Ango)
Shake to the rolling of the waves and serve in your best grog cup
Salvatrix
- 2 ounces Rye,
- 2 t Benedictine
- 1 t Orgeat
- 2 dashes Fee’s Whisky Barrel Aged Bitters
- 2 Sage Leaves.
Lightly muddle leaves, add ice, stir. Up.
Early Evening Cocktail
- 1 spring thyme
- 0.5 ounces simple syrup
- 0.5 ounces honey mix
- 1 small drop pimento dram
- 1 ounce fresh lime juice
- 2 ounces El Dorado 3 year cask aged rum
Muddle a sprig of thyme, 0.5 oz simple, 0.5 oz honey,1 small drop pimento dram. add rest of ingredients. Shake, strain,serve in rocks glass with crushed ice and a sprig of thyme.
Mestizo
- 2 Tablespoons cilantro leaves
- 2 cardamom pods
- 1 sugar cube
- 0.75 oz lime juice
- 1.5 oz reposado tequila
muddle cilantro, pods, and sugar in lime juice, add tequila, shake with vigor, strain into cocktail glass.
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