Lemon Cocktail Recipes

August is the month of lemons with National Lemonade Day on Tuesday, August 20 and National Lemon Juice Day on Thursday, August 29. So celebrate the citrus that does it all—lemons!  

We've compiled a collection of lemon cocktail recipes to add some brightness to your menus!

 

The Lemon Wedge

Ingredients:

1.5 oz of Dewar’s 12 Year Old

3 oz of club soda

2 oz lemonade 

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients over ice in a highball glass.
2. Garnish with a lemon wheel.

 

Blueberry Lemon Colada

Ingredients

^{1 1}/₂ oz. spiced rum

2 pump(s) Monin Blueberry Concentrated Flavor

1 oz. Monin Coconut Purée

³/₄ oz. fresh lemon juice

1 oz. pineapple juice

Garnish: blueberries, lemon slice, Pineapple Leaves

 

Directions:

1. Fill serving glass full of ice.
2. Pour ingredients into mixing tin in order listed.
3. Add ice from serving glass.
4. Cap, shake and pour back into serving glass.
5. Add garnish and serve.

 

 

Metaxa Sangria

Ingredients:

6.8 oz METAXA 7 Stars

10.1 oz Dry White Wine or Prosecco

3.4 oz Soda Lemonade or Sparkling Lemonade

Directions:

1. Add METAXA and wine in the jar with ice and stir all ingredients.
2. Top up with Lemonade and garnish with 3 figs, 3 apricots, 3 plums cut in halves, and 1 orange wedge

 

Frozen Blackberry Smash

Ingredients:

3/4 oz Triple Cask Bourbon

6 or 7 Fresh Blackberries

1 oz Blackberry Simple Syrup

3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1 oz Club Soda

Crushed Ice

Sprig of Mint for garnish

Directions:

1. Combine ingredients with fully crushed ice and blend. 
2. Pour into a cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with a fresh sprig of mint and a few blackberries. 

 

Blackberry Sage

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz. Aspen Vodka

1 oz. Lemon juice, freshly squeezed

¾ oz. Blackberry sage syrup*

Top with champagne/bubbles 

Directions:

1. Add Aspen Vodka, lemon juice, blackberry sage syrup to a shaker filled with ice. 
2. Shake for 12–15 seconds until well chilled, then strain into Chantilly glass. 
3. Top off with champagne/bubbles. 
4. Garnish with baby’s breath flower garnish.

 

Derby Lemon-Aid

Ingredients:

2.5 oz Kentucky Bourbon.
.5 oz Cointreau.
1 oz orgeat.
1.5 oz lemon juice.
Few dashes of cucumber-lavender bitters
Large lemon peel to garnish

Directions:

1. Combine Bourbon, orange liqueur, orgeat, and lemon juice in a shaker.
2. Add ice.
3. Shake ice cold.
4.  Strain into chilled Collins glass over long lemon peel garnish and fresh
   ice.
5. Top off with mineral sparkling water.

 

Emerald Collins

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Empress 1908 Cucumber Lemon Gin

1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1 oz Simple Syrup

Soda Water, to top

Cucumber Ribbon, to line glass

Garnish: Lemon Slice

Directions: 

1. Start by lining a Collins glass with a cucumber ribbon and fill with ice. Set aside. 
2. Shake gin, syrup, and lemon juice over ice and strain into prepared cocktail glass. 
3. Top with soda water and garnish with lemon slice. 

 

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