Mother’s Day Drinks For 2024
Mother’s Day is May 12, this year, so be ready for the brunch and dinner crowd with some festive, Mom-approved cocktails. Here are five recipes that are fairly simple to execute but will make a big impact. For more, check out the Mother’s Day drinks roundup from 2023.
Pampl’ Up
Ingredients
½ oz. Citrus syrup¾ oz. Cointreau½ oz. Lemon juice1 ¼ oz. Three Cents grapefruit soda
Instructions
Combine ingredients except soda in shaker.
Add ice and shake until well chilled.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Top with grapefruit soda.
Garnish with lemon peel twist.
Notes
The mixologists at Cointreau created this recipe.
Tough as a Mother
Ingredients
1 oz. Rose petal-infused gin*¾ oz. The Perfect Purée El Corazon blend thawed¼ oz. Lime juice4 drops Orange blossom waterChampagne
Instructions
Add all ingredients except Champagne to a shaker.
Shake with ice and strain into a flute.
Top with Champagne.
Garnish with a twisted lime peel.
Notes
*For Rose petal-infused gin
Infuse one bottle of gin with 3 tablespoons of food grade dried rose petals overnight. Strain the next day.
Infuse one bottle of gin with 3 tablespoons of food grade dried rose petals overnight. Strain the next day.
Theo Lentz, beverage director at Hummingbird in Raleigh, NC, created this recipe.
Kalimera
Ingredients
1 oz. Orange juice1 oz. Peach nectar4 oz. Sparkling rosé1 Thyme sprig
Instructions
Fill a wine glass with ice.
Add juice, nectar and sparkling rosé.
Gently stir.
Garnish with thyme sprig.
Notes
Mixologists Thomas Mizuno-Moore created this recipe for Aba in Austin, TX.
Theodora
Ingredients
2 oz. Empress 1908 Indigo gin¾ oz. Fresh lemon juice¾ oz. Lavender honey syrup¼ oz. Rose water
Instructions
Rinse a chilled coupe glass with rose water.
Add the gin, lemon and syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake vigorously and strain into the coupe.
Garnish with a sprig of lavender or edible flower.
Notes
The mixologists at Victoria Distillers created this recipe.
Hot Mama Jamma
Ingredients
2 oz. New Riff Kentucky Wild Gin¾ oz. Lime juice1 heaping tbsp. Strawberry jalapeno jam or regular strawberry jam4 oz. Q hibiscus ginger beer
Instructions
Add ingredients except ginger beer to a shaker.
Shake well and strain into a Collins glass.
Top with ginger beer.
Garnish with a lime wheel.
Notes
The Aquifer team at New Riff Distilling in Newport, KY, created this recipe.
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