1 shot vodka
1 splash Sour Apple Schnapps
lemon-lime soda
dash salt
2 sprigs fresh basil
1 slice lemon

Fill a large martini glass with ice. Arrange lemon and basil between the ice so basil will be submerged. Add remaining ingredients and stir lightly. For best results allow flavor to develop for a minute before drinking.

Marion De Fazio
Angie’s Pizza
Dickson City, PA

Dash Grenadine
Fill glass with Ice
1 1/2 oz. Malibu Passion Fruit Rum
Top off with Faygo Blue Moon Mist

 

Cristina Linder
Lightning & Thunders Custar Tavern
Custar, OH

Captain Morgan Jamaica Rum
Midori Melon
Monin Orgeat
fresh mint
fresh lime juice
Combine ingredients, shake & strain over crushed ice.

 

Ciprianoff Ciprianoff
Barissimo Cocktail Bar
Constanta, Romania

2 oz. Plum infused Journeyman's Roads End Rum
.75 oz. fresh lemon juice
.75 oz. Allspice/Coriander simple syrup
.5 oz. Allspice dram
.5 oz. Luxardo Aperitivo
.5 oz Amarretto
top with Cremant Du Jura Sparkling champagne
server chilled in a martini glass.

Matthew Brown
North Pond
Chicago, IL

2 bottles Hoegaarden white ale
1 bottle raspberry wine
6 oz. Lillet Blanc
6 oz. raspberries (about 1 cup)
1/2 medium orange, thinly sliced
Combine ingredients in a pitcher with ice. Stir and pour into chilled glasses.

12 oz. can light beer
12 oz. can ginger ale
1 ½ tbsp. sugar
1/3 cup lime juice

Combine ingredients in a pitcher with ice, stir and serve.

1 1/3 oz. Vodka Citron
1/2 oz. lime juice
1 oz. cranberry juice
1/2 oz. Cointreau

Combine in a shaker with ice, shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

1 part Pinnacle® Pumpkin Pie Vodka
1 part RumChata
Rim a chilled shot glass with cinnamon sugar. Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into shot glass.

1 oz. Smirnoff kissed caramel vodka
1 oz. Kahlua
Fill with half & half
Add salt and shake

 

Lisa Taylor
Flyers 69
New Bern, N.C.

1 oz. Twenty Grand
1 oz. Kahlua® coffee liqueur

Fill a shot glass half Twenty Grand, half Kahlua.