Maine Flower Show - Garden Cocktail Inspiration
The Maine Flower Show is coming up at the end of March to Thompson’s Point. That must mean gardening, warm weather, and bright colors are right around the corner!
The Maine Flower show is a huge garden and flower show where landscapers, enthusiasts, and designers come together to immerse themselves in the smells, colors, and trends of Maine horticulture. It is always such a fun and beautiful event!
Whether you make it to the show or not, let’s think about full gardens and warm weather while we sip on these garden and florally inspired cocktails!
Casa Spring Fling
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Casamigos Blanco
- .5 oz Grapefruit Juice
- .5 oz Lime Juice
- .5 oz Orgeat Syrup
- .5 oz Simple Syrup
- 6-8 Dashes Peychauds Bitters
- 3 Edible Flower
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into tin shaker, except Peychauds Bitters. Add ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into Collins glass. Add fresh ice. Top off with 6–8 dashes of Peychauds Bitters. Garnish.
Spring Shower
Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz Reyka Vodka
- 1 oz Watermelon Juice
- 0.75 oz Lemon Juice
- 0.75 oz Lavender Syrup
- 1 oz Egg White
- 3 Cucumber
- 1 Cucumber
Directions:
1. Shake vodka, watermelon juice, lemon juice, syrup, egg white and 3 cucumber slices in a cocktail shaker without ice until the egg white is frothed.
2. Add ice and shake again.
3. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with an additional cucumber slice.
Garden Goddess
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Wiggly Bridge Distillery Gin
- .5 oz Simple Syrup
- .5 oz Lemon Juice
- Splash Soda Water
- 7 to 10 Basil
- 3 Rounds Cucumber
- 2" Strip Lemon
Directions:
Chill coupe or martini glass. Add cucumber, 7-8 basil leaves, lemon juice, and simple syrup to tumbler and muddle well. Add ice and gin shake well for 15-20 seconds. Double strain, using a hawthorne strainer and a mesh/tea strainer, into cocktail glass. Add splash of soda. Garnish with lemon peel wrapped basil leaves.
311 Elm Street
Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz Riot Rum
- 1 oz Raspberry Syrup
- .75 oz Lime Juice
- .5 oz Dry Curaçao
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake thoroughly. Pour into a martini glass and garnish with edible flowers.
Elderflower "Estridentista"
Ingredients:
- 0.75 oz Ancho Reyes
- 1.5 oz Dry Vermouth
- 0.75 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
- 2 Dashes Grapefruit Bitters
- 1 Each Lemon
Directions:
Chill a coupe glass with ice and water and set aside. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until well chilled and diluted. Discard chilling ice from coupe and strain cocktail into chilled glass. Using a vegetable peeler, remove a long peel of lemon. Express the oils over the cocktail, rub the peel around the glass rim, and place in the coupe.
Black Fig Flower
Ingredients:
- 2.5 oz Black Fig Vodka
- 0.5 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
- 0.5 oz Prosecco
- Wedge Lemon
Directions:
In a cocktail shaker, combine the Black Fig Vodka, St Germain, and the lemon wedge squeezed and dropped. Pack with ice and shake and strain into a chilled martini glass and top with splash of Prosecco.
Garden Delight
Ingredients:
- 1 Part Midori Melon Liqueur
- 1 Part Gin
- 2 Parts Tonic Water
- 2 Cucumber
- 1 Sprig Rosemary
Directions:
Build into a tall glass over ice. Whip the sprig against the glass to release aroma before adding to the glass. Top with tonic water.