Mix Up Your Routine With These Cocktails Inspired By Classic Aussie Scenes
The Whisky for when you sorta deserve one.
Is your cocktail repertoire in need of a little sprucing up? Drinks list feeling a tad stale? Friends coming ‘round and you’re fresh out of ideas for what to serve? Fear not – Monkey Shoulder has your back.
The whisky purveyors have put together a collection of cocktails that are A) totally delicious and B) sure to freshen up your drink rotation. They’re inspired by classic Aussie scenes – think pool parties, BBQs, and a hot summer’s beach day – but really, you can drink them anywhere. It’s the whisky for when you sorta earned it.
Whether your bartending skills are, ahem, not-so-developed or you’re a full-on mixologist, there’s a concoction in here for all. Read on for some serious bevvie inspo.
Monkey Splash
The inspiration: A water fight breaks out in the backyard
Image: Aaron Burden / Unsplash
Ingredients:
- 50mL Monkey Shoulder
- 150mL soda water
Directions:
- Build in tall glass
- Garnish with squeezed orange wedge
Show Me The Monkey
The inspiration: You manage not to burn the snags at your mate’s BBQ
Image: Luis Quintero / Pexels
Ingredients:
- 50mL Monkey Shoulder
- 20mL Drambuie
- 80mL cloudy apple juice
- 6-8 mint leaves
Directions:
- Shake ingredients together
- Strain into tall glass over ice
- Garnish with mint sprig and orange slice
Espresso Monkey
Inspiration: You’re going in for your third coffee before lunch
Image: Chevanon Photography / Pexels
Recipe:
- 40mL Monkey Shoulder
- 30mL quality espresso
- 15mL coffee liqueur
- Dash of sugar syrup
Directions:
- Shake all ingredients hard
- Strain into cocktail glass and garnish with coffee beans
Pina Cool-ada
Inspiration: You just got a hat-trick in beach cricket
Image: Lockie Blanch / Unsplash
Recipe:
- 40mL Monkey Shoulder
- 20mL coconut rum
- 60mL coconut water
- 10mL fresh lime juice
- 2 pineapple rings
- Dash of sugar syrup
Directions:
- Add all ingredients to blender and blend until smooth
- Pour into Hurricane or tall cocktail glass
- Garnish with pineapple leaf and/or pineapple chunk
This article originally appeared on Junkee.
You can find Monkey Shoulder at any good liquor store.
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(Lead image courtesy of Monkey Shoulder)