Summertime and the living is easy!!

Here are some easy, mixable drink recipes… perfect to celebrate Summer’s arrival

Long Island Ice Tea

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This is a classic mixed drink that should be in everyone's drink repertoire. An easy way to remember how to make a Long Island is to think of a small shot of 5 white spirits (gin, tequila, light rum, vodka, triple sec), shot of sour mix, fill with cola.

 

It's really easy if you break it down, but it is also just as easy to drink too many. The 1970's credit for this potent and alluring concoction could go to Robert Bott, a bartender from Long Island, or to Charles Bishop, a 1930's moonshiner in (then dry) Tennessee. Or was it T.G.I. Friday's?**

 Ingredients:

· 1/2 oz triple sec

· 1/2 oz Bacardi Light Rum

· 1/2 oz gin

· 1/2 oz Prairie Vodka

· 1/2 oz tequila

· 1 oz sour mix

· cola

lemon wedge for garnish

Preparation:

Pour the spirits and sour mix into a Collins glass with ice.

Stir well or shake.

· Top the glass off with cola.

· Garnish with the lemon wedge

Ingredients:

· 2 blackberries, plus 1 blackberry and 1 lime wheel skewered on a pick

· 1 cup ice

· 1 1/2 ounces Reposado tequila

· 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice

· 3/4 ounce Simple Syrup

· 1/2 ounce Chambord

· 1 ounce chilled club soda

Agave Negro

Preparation:

Moisten the outer rim of a highball glass with 1 lemon wedge and coat lightly with superfine sugar.

 

Add ice to the glass. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the remaining 3 lemon wedges with the Lemon-Thyme Syrup.

 

Add ice and the vodka and shake well. Stir in the club soda. Strain the drink into the prepared highball glass and garnish with the lemon thyme sprig.

Vodka-Thyme Lemonade

Ingredients:

· 4 lemon wedges and superfine sugar

· Ice

· 2 ounces Lemon-Thyme Syrup

· 2 ounces citrus vodka

· 1 ounce chilled club soda

· 1 lemon thyme sprig

Preparation:

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the 2 blackberries. Add the ice, tequila, lime juice, Simple Syrup and Chambord. Shake well and pour into a rocks glass. Stir in the club soda and garnish with the skewered blackberry and lime wheel