Mix Up Your Routine With These Cocktails Inspired By Classic Aussie Scenes
Read on for some serious bevvie inspo.
The Whisky You Sorta Earned.
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
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
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
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
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
You can find Monkey Shoulder at any good liquor store.
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(Lead image courtesy of Monkey Shoulder)