Summer Cocktails

Summer is here and has brought with it great, fresh ingredients for cocktails. Muddled berries of all sorts: strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, can add a twist to favorites like margaritas or be the main ingredient for creative and refreshing concoctions. Below are a few of our favorite recipes that are perfect for summer!  Salud!

 

Berry Bubbly

2 oz Republic Plata Tequila

½ oz Grand Marnier

4 fresh raspberries

2 fresh blackberries (large)

5-7 fresh mint leaves

1 oz lime juice

Top with Prosecco

 

Muddle blackberries, raspberries, and mint in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker half-way with ice and combine all other ingredients except prosecco. Shake and strain into a fine mesh strainer over a martini glass. Use a small spoon to stir the liquid in the strainer to ensure all liquid goes into the glass. Top with Prosecco and garnish with a half lime wheel.

 

Recipe courtesy of Ryan Kelly of Tequila Examiner.

 

Raspberry Lavender Aqua Fresca

2 oz Republic Plata Tequila

.5 oz Monin Lavender Syrup

.5 oz Agave Nectar

1 oz Lime Juice

5 Raspberries

 

Muddle raspberries. Pour all remaining ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake and pour into rocks glass.

 

Republic Sayulita Straw

1.5 oz Republic Reposado

4 strawberries

1/8 of a lemon

1 Tbsp minced ginger

Ginger beer

 

In a mixing cup, muddle strawberries, lemon and ginger. Add tequila and ice and shake for 20 seconds. Strain over fresh ice into a tall glass. Top with ginger beer and garnish with a fresh strawberry.

 

Recipe compliments of H. Joseph Ehrmann of Cocktail Ambassadors, San Francisco, California.

 

Blackberry Thyme Margarita

1.5 oz Republic Plata

½ oz Cointreau

1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice

½ oz Agave nectar

4 fresh blackberries

1 sprig of thyme

 

In a glass shaker muddle the blackberries and thyme with the lime juice, add the Plata tequila, Cointreau and agave nectar, shake and strain into rocks glass with fresh ice.  Garnish with a sprig of thyme. 

 

Agave Negro
1 1/2 oz Republic Plata tequila
1/2 oz Chambord liqueur
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz soda water

 3 blackberries
Garnish: lime wedge

Muddle blackberries in the bottom of a rocks glass. Add ice, tequila, Chambord, lime juice, simple syrup into a cocktail shaker. Shake the mixture vigorously. Pour back into rocks glass over ice. Top with splash of soda water.

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