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9 Recipes

Bee’s Knees

Summer Gin

Crisp, refreshing and incredibly easy. The perfect everyday cocktail.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz ARBOR Spring Gin
  • 1 oz lemon juice
  • 3/4 oz honey simple syrup

Shake with ice, strain in to a large coupe, garnish with a lemon wheel.

Blackberry Bramble

Whiskey and Blackberry Liqueur

Fruity but tart with whiskey back.

Ingredients

  • 1.5oz Fox River Whiskey
  • .75oz Water Hill Blackberry Liqueur
  • .5oz orange or lemon juice
  • .5oz simple syrup

Combine ingredients in a shaker with a sprig of rosemary. Shake and strain in to a rocks glass.

Fall Gin Old Fashioned

Arbor Fall Gin

A spirit-forward classic with just the right touch of sweetness and bitters.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Arbor Fall Gin
  • 0.25 oz Simple Syrup
  • 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
  • Orange Peel (for garnish)

Build in a rocks glass, stir with ice, garnish with orange peel and a cherry

Spaulding’s Coffee A2spresso Martini

Spaulding's Coffee Liqueur

A bold and smooth classic that pairs our coffee liqueur with vodka and espresso.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Arbor Wheat Vodka
  • 1 oz Spaulding’s Coffee Liqueur
  • 2 oz cold brew coffee
  • 1 dash orange bitters

Shake with ice, double strain into a large Nick & Nora glass, garnish with 3 coffee beans

Spring Gin & Apéritivo Grapefruit Spritz

Water Hill Aperitivo and Arbor Spring Gin

A refreshing drink filled with botanicals and the citrus of the grapefruit.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Arbor Spring Gin
  • 0.5 oz Water Hill Aperitivo
  • 1.5 oz grapefruit juice
  • Club soda to top

Build in a Collins glass with ice, stir, garnish with grapefruit peel

Spring Gin Cucumber Gimlet

Spring Gin

The cucumber in this drink adds a whole new dimension to a classic.

Ingredients

  • 3 cucumber wheels, thickly sliced
  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup
  • 2 ounces Arbor Spring Gin
  • 3/4 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
  • Garnish: cucumber wheel, sliced thinly

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in the gin, lime juice, and simple syrup. Shake and strain into a chilled up glass. Garnish with lime.

Summer Gin Jalapeño Pineapple Smash

Summer Gin Cocktail

A spicy gin drink that can beat the heat in the dog days of summer.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Arbor Summer Gin
  • 1 oz pineapple juice
  • 0.5 oz lime juice
  • 0.5 oz agave syrup
  • sliced jalapeño, to taste

Shake with ice and jalapeño slices, pour all into rocks glass rimmed with chili lime salt, garnish with lime wedge

Winter Gin & Absinthe Corpse Reviver

Water Hill Absinthe and Arbor Winter Gin

A long-time favorite cocktail from the 1800s. Used as a hangover cure back then – great with brunch today.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Arbor Winter Gin
  • 0.5 oz Water Hill Absinthe
  • 1 oz lemon juice
  • 1 oz turbinado simple syrup

Shake with ice, strain into a large coupe, and garnish with dehydrated lemon

Winter Gin Frosty Martini

Winter Gin

A classic martini with a lemon peel or olive served in a frozen up glass.

Ingredients

  • 2.5 oz Arbor Winter Gin
  • 1 dash of dry white vermouth or olive brine

Chill gin and Nick & Nora glass in the freezer, stir with ice, strain, garnish with lemon peel or olive

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