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3 Cocktails Featuring Drinking Vinegars

3 Cocktails Featuring Drinking Vinegars
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Drinking Vinegars have a multitude of great uses including: 

  • turning regular boring cocktails into enhanced “craft cocktails”; 
  • adding them to sparkling water or club soda with a squeeze of lime for a refreshing Italian Soda,
  • or using them for health purposes to get yourself to drink more water (required on most healthy diets). 
Cherry shrub syrup used to make craft cocktail of Old Fashioned
Cherry shrub syrup (drinking vinegar) used to make craft cocktail of Old Fashioned

DIY Drinking Vinegars

It is not difficult to make your own scrumptious drinking vinegars. Just know that depending on the fruit you choose, it may not be a bargain. Fruit in the offseason can be expensive and you don’t always get optimal flavor from fruit that is out-of-season.

If you are making your vinegars with seasonal fruit and can find them for good prices at a farmers’ market check out this tutorial on mixology with drinking vinegars.

Recipe for Grapefruit Shrub Salty Dog

Salty dog cocktail with grapefruit shrub syrup
Salty dog cocktail with grapefruit shrub syrup

Ingredients:

  • salt for rimming the glass
  • 2 oz. gin (can use vodka if preferred)
  • 4 oz. Grapefruit drink syrup
  • 2-3 dashes citrus bitters

Directions:

Pour coarse salt onto a small plate. Moisten the rim of your glass with a lime or grapefruit wedge. Gently dip rims into salt to coat lightly. Fill glasses with ice cubes. Pour gin (or vodka) over ice in each glass. Add a grapefruit drink syrup and bitters and stir.

Recipe for Grapefruit Shrub Spritzer or Italian Soda

Grapefruit Spritzer - non alcoholic
Grapefruit Spritzer – non alcoholic

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz vodka (or gin)
  • 4 oz grapefruit drink syrup
  • Club soda or sparkling water
  • grapefruit peel for garnish

Directions:

  1. Fill a tall glass with ice and add vodka and grapefruit drink syrup. Stir well.  Top off the glass with club soda or sparkling water and a pinch of sea salt if desired. Garnish with grapefruit peel.
  2. For an Italian Soda, just forego the vodka or gin.

Recipe for Bourbon Cherry Bomb Cocktail

cherry drinking vinegar
Bourbon Cherry Bomb Cocktail

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz bourbon (I like rye whiskey but bourbon is great also)
  • 1/2 oz. Cherry drink syrup (use 1 oz if you like sweeter drinks)
  • juice from 1/2 of a lime
  • 3-4 dashes cherry bitters (other bitters are fine also)

Directions:

Add ice to a short glass (aka highball glass).  Add bourbon or rye and theCut 1/2 lime into a few wedges and squeeze into the glass.  Add 3-4 dashes bitters.  Stir.

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