Kentucky Derby Day Cocktails [COCKTAIL TIME]

Giddy up! The Kentucky Derby is only a few weeks away. Grab your favorite hat, select that winning horse and grab a Kentucky Derby Day cocktail! Our friends over at Ballotin Chocolate Whiskey, Broken Shed Vodka, Disaronno Originale, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, and Cocktail & Sons Mojito Mixer, have share their favorite Derby Day cocktail. We hope you enjoy!

Ballotin Chocolate Whiskey

Ballotin Chocolate Whiskey was founded in 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky with a single focus: create elegant and delicious sipping whiskeys designed for flavor-craving friends. The result is an approachable whiskey that tastes like an expression of your favorite chocolate indulgences. Available in eight flavors, including Original Chocolate, Bourbon Ball, Caramel Turtle, Chocolate Mint, Peanut Butter Chocolate, Chocolate Mocha, Chocolate Cherry, and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream — all of Ballotin’s spirits combine the backbone, body, and base flavor of aged American whiskey with all-natural essences of classic and contemporary chocolate favorites.

Ballotin Mint Julep

Ingredients:

3 oz Ballotin Chocolate Mint
Crushed Ice
2 sprigs fresh mint

Method:

Fill julep cup with crushed ice, add Ballotin Chocolate Mint and garnish with slapped mint sprigs.

MSRP: $25 Click here to purchase. 

Whiskeysmith Peach

Ripe, juicy peach flavors mingle with the warm vanillaspice undertones from only the finest American whiskey. Perfectlypaired, the two merge to create a sipping experience reminiscent of a slice of southern peach cobbler. Whiskeysmith Flavored Whiskey, made with real, American whiskey and fruit and culinary inspired extracts, acts as a cocktail in a bottle that makes for a mouth-watering sipper. This flavored whiskey can be enjoyed on its own, while also adding incredible depth of flavor to any cocktail creation. Born in the small town of Fort Collins, CO, Whiskeysmith Co. Flavored Whiskeys offers the true experience of flavor in every sip. Bottled at 30% ABV.

Peach Mint Julep

Ingredients:

2 oz. Whiskeysmith Co. Peach Flavored Whiskey
10 Mint Leaves
3 Peach Slices
0.5 oz. Honey Simple Syrup
0.5 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice

Method:

In a glass, muddle mint, peaches and honey syrup.
Add Whiskeysmith Co. Peach Flavored Whiskey, lemon juice, and muddle again.
Top with crushed ice, and garnish with lots of fresh mint and peaches.

MSRP: $23.99 Click here to purchase.

Broken Shed Vodka

Broken Shed Vodka is a whey-distilled vodka based in Wanaka, New Zealand. Distilled, crafted and bottled in New Zealand since its inception in 2009, its vodka draws upon the country’s natural aquifer and spring waters, without any hint of gluten, additives, sugars or GMOs. Since entering the U.S. market in June 2012, Broken Shed Vodka has won a legion of loyal fans and an impressive collection of awards. Broken Shed Vodka started in a ‘broken’ down old shed on Lake Wanaka where the formula was originally crafted and produced.

Broken Mule

Ingredients:
2 oz Broken Shed Vodka
1 oz Fresh lime juice
Ginger beer

Garnish: Lime wedge

Method:

Add all ingredients to a highball with ice. Top with ginger beer and stir. Garish with a lime wedge.

MSRP: $23.99 Click here to purchase. 

 

Disaronno Originale

Featuring an original taste and unmistakable aroma, Disaronno Originale stands out on the world stage with distribution in more than 160 countries. The Disaronno bottle has a unique design and a cap, which lends elegance and modernity, embellished with a golden label that enhances its contemporary style. Disaronno is a pleasure to enjoy on the rocks as well as in its various amaretto forward drinks, including the Disaronno Fizz, Italian Sparkler and Disaronno Godfather.

Disaronno Julep

Ingredients:

0.5 oz Disaronno
1.5 oz Rye whiskey
0.25 oz ml Peach liqueur
4 Mint leaves
Crushed Ice
Mint sprig

Method:

Muddle ingredients into a tin cup or julep cup, scoop out mint and discard. Add crushed ice and stir. Top up with crushed ice and lay on top a mint spring. Dust mint sprig with powdered sugar and julep strainer.

MSRP: $29.99 Click here to purchase.

 

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin

Delightfully fresh and rounded up front with citrus, juniper & spice immediately evident. The expected juniper follows close behind. Gunpowder Tea, meadowsweet & coriander are all notable. On the shores of Lough Allen, at the foothills of Sliabh an Iarainn, lies The Shed Distillery of P.J. Rigney in the tiny rural village of Drumshanbo in the province of Connacht in the west of Ireland. This is where the magic happens for Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin. Named after where it is made (Drumshanbo) as well as the main ingredient (Gunpowder Tea), this Gin is truly an experience not to be missed.

Combustable

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Gunpowder Gin
0.75 oz Honey Mint Syrup
0.75 oz Lemon juice
1 oz Jasmine Green Tea

Method:

Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker over ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with mint sprig. Topper of Scented dry ice aroma served from tea pot (kafir, cardamom)

MSRP: $36.99 Click here to purchase.

 

Cocktail & Sons Mojito Mixer

Cocktail & Sons Mojito Mixer pairs crisp peppermint and sweet spearmint with floral lemon verbena and aromatic lime peels, topped with fresh clarified citrus juice. It’s the easiest way yet to enjoy your Mojito, Southside, or Smash. The mint aromas make it perfect for a Kentucky Derby Cocktail!

Spa Day

Ingredients:

2 oz cucumber vodka (we like St. Roch, but you can make your own by soaking one large peeled cucumber with 750mL of vodka for between three days to two weeks, or use cucumber bitters)
1 oz Cocktail & Sons Mojito Mixer
Club soda

Method:

Combine the ingredients in a Collins glass; top with ice. Garnish with a cucumber ribbon and a sprig of fresh mint.

MSRP: $14.95 Click here to purchase.

 

Please drink responsibly. 

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