Sips & Sites & Bites

Let’s honor mom in style with some fantastic cocktails, classic recipes featuring a little bit of the best base liquors you can get, Bruichladdich, The Botanist Islay Dry Gin, and Mount Gay Rum.

From a classic Gin and Tonic, a Scotch Negroni, or a Rum Mojito, you can toast mom with a splash of the good stuff. Here’s three intriguing recipes from the makers of these gins, Scotches and rums:

Total Eclipse Cocktail from Mount Gay Rum

Ingredients: 

• 1.5 oz Mount Gay Eclipse 
• .75 oz fresh lemon juice 
• .5 oz simple syrup 
• .5 oz Averna Amaro (float on top) 
• Garnish: orange slice 

Directions: 

• Shake and strain over crushed ice 
• Float with Averna Amaro 
• Garnish with an orange half-moon 

The Botanist Clover Club from The Botanist Gin

Ingredients:

• 2 oz The Botanist 
• 0.5 oz Lemon Juice, Freshly Squeezed 
• 0.5 oz Raspberry Syrup 
• 1 Egg White 
• Raspberries 

Directions:

• Add The Botanist, lemon juice, raspberry syrup, and egg white into a shaker and shake vigorously for five seconds.
• Add ice and shake until well-chilled, approximately ten seconds.
• Strain into a child cocktail glass.
• Garnish with three speared raspberries.

Laddie Collins from Bruichladdich

Ingredients: 

• 50ml Bruichladdich The Classic Laddie Whisky 
• 20ml Lemon juice 
• 15ml Golden syrup 
• 120ml Soda water 
• 1 Lemon wedge 

Instructions: 

• Pour ingredients except for soda water, into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
• Shake well & pour into a tall glass.
• Top with soda water and garnish with a lemon wedge.