Queen’s Park Swizzle

Queen’s Park Swizzle

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Dark Rum
  • 8 Mint leaves (+more for garnish)
  • 3/4 oz Lime juice
  • 1/2 oz Simple Syrup
  • 5-8 dashes Angostura bitters

Instructions:

Lightly muddle mint in the base of a Collins glass. Add rum, lime, simple and stir. Top with finely crushed ice and stir. Top with more ice and add dashes of angostura on top. Garnish with a mint sprig.


Source: Around the World in 80 Cocktails 

Pineapple Mint Margarita

Pineapple Mint Margarita

Ingredients: 

  • 2 oz Gran Centenario Reposado Tequila
  • 1/2 oz Cointreau
  • 3/4 oz Lime Juice
  • 2 oz Pineapple juice
  • 4 mint leaves
  • Mint sugar rim

Instructions: 

To make sugar rim, mince a handful mint and mix with sugar. Dip glasses into lime juice then mint sugar mixture. Set aside. Muddle mint in a shaker, fill with ice and add remaining ingredients. Shake well and pour into prepared glasses.


A Green Hour Original 

Bourbon Smash

Bourbon Smash

Ingredients: 

  • 7-10 mint leaves
  • Half a lemon (quartered)
  • 1 tbsp simple syrup
  • 1/3 cup bourbon
  • Crushed ice
  • Mint sprigs for garnish

Instructions: 

Muddle mint leaves, lemon quarters and simple syrup in the bottom of a glass or shaker. Add bourbon. Fill a tall glass with finely crushed ice and pour mixture over it slowly. Top with more crushed ice and mint sprigs.


 

Cobra’s Fang

Cobra’s Fang

Ingredients: 

  • 2 1/2 oz Dark Rum
  • 1 tsp Peach liqueur
  • 2 dashes Absinthe
  • 3/4 oz lime juice
  • 3/4 oz orange juice
  • 1 passionfruit
  • 3 slices of ginger
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters
  • Mint sprig for garnish

Instructions: 

Scoop out passionfruit pulp and muddle with ginger in a shaker. Add remaining ingredients and shake  with ice. Strain into a tiki glass filled with crushed ice and top with a mint sprig!

 


Source: Adapted from Death & Co