If you can’t beat the heat, then you can at least tolerate it with a cool drink in your hand.
Here are refreshing summer cocktail recipes from Ketel One Botanical. There is also a “bonus cocktail” that requries nothing more than opening a bottle.
Ketel One Botanical Hugo Spritz
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Ketel One Botanical Cucumber & Mint
0.3 oz Elderflower liqueur
0.5 oz Cucumber juice
0.5 oz Lime juice
0.3 oz Simple syrup
1.5 oz of soda water
1.5 oz of prosecco
Mint Sprig for Garnish
Method:
Add Ketel One Botanical, Elderflower Liqueur, Cucumber Juice, Lime Juice, and Simple Syrup to a mixing glass with good quality ice cubes. Stir to combine, then strain into wine. Top with soda water.
The Astral Margarita
This blue bottled ready-to-serve drink, part of the Cocktail Collection, was recently crowned with a Double Gold win at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The Cocktail Collection is availableat liquor stores nationwide and on Thebar.com and come in two size options, a 375 ML (four servings) and 750 ML (eight servings).
Botanical 75
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Ketel One Botanical Grapefruit & Rose
0.5 oz Fresh lemon juice
0.3 oz Rose syrup
Top with Sparkling Rosé
Garnish: Grapefruit peel
Method:
Combine Ketel One Botanical, lemon juice, and rose syrup in a cocktail shaker with good quality ice cubes. Shake and fine strain into a flute glass. Top with sparkling rosé and garnish with a grapefruit peel.
Peach Botanical Spritz
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Ketel One Botanical Peach & Orange Blossom
0.5 oz Orange Juice
0.3 oz Peach Liqueur
0.3 oz Lemon Juice
3.0 oz Soda water or Sparkling Wine
Garnish: Peach slice
Method:
Fill a white wine glass with good quality ice cubes. Add all ingredients, stir gently, and garnish with a peach or orange slice.