Holidays are quickly approaching and with all of the at home cocktail parties being planned I thought you might need a couple handy cocktail recipes to impress your friends with.

CUCUMBER ECLIPSE
chill martini glass
Grab a shaker and put 2 scoops of ice
Pour in shaker
1 1/2 oz of Hendricks gin
1/2 oz of St. Germaine Elderflower liqueur
1 oz of fresh cucumber juice(juice cucumber with the skin)
1/2 oz of fresh house sour
1/2 oz simple syrup

Set down shaker

Empty the chilled martini glass of the ice
Pour a 1/4 oz of All natural Fever Tree Ginger beer in the martini glass

Grab the shaker tin
STIR your Cocktail briskly yet taking care not to break or chip any ice

Strain the cocktail into the martini glass over top of the Ginger beer

Garnish with 1/8 oz of house made black raspberry tincture

The tincture creates a red eclipse on the top of the cocktail with about 30 sec of application

RAW SAZERAC (America’s oldest cocktail recipe)
Fill rocks glass entirely with ice and set aside

Grab shaker tin and pour
2 oz of sazerac rye whiskey
4 dashes of Peyschaud bitters
1/4 oz of house raw honey syrup from Middletown wildflower honey(as oppose to the traditional refined white sugar cube) hence the name raw sazerac
Set shaker aside

Grab rocks glass and stir ice in glass to further chill the entire glass then dump ice

Using an atomizer, spray lucid absinthe into the chilled rocks glass. Swirl glass and shake out any residual water from ice or absinthe

Grab shaker with cocktail
Put one scoop of ice inside
STIR your Cocktail briskly yet taking care not to break or chip any ice

Strain and pour into the chilled and absinthe spritzed rocks glass

Garnish with a fresh lemon peel that you’ve squeezed to release the oils.

Brought to you by VOLT Bar Manager, Dustin Brashears

Of course come on over to VOLT if you rather have someone else mix it up for you.

Congratulations to Chef Voltaggio for receiving two top honors this past month - Rising Star awarded by Star Chef and Chef/Restauranteur of the Year awarded by Share Our Strength’s Conference of Leaders.

A little about the awards - Rising Star, by Star Chef, is awarded to up-and-coming chefs who represent the vanguard of the contemporary American dining scene and who represent the future of American cuisine. Click here to read more about Star Chefs and the honors.

Chef of the Year, awarded by SOS, is awarded to a chef who has made extraordinary contributions to SOS’s success and the fight to end hunger in his or her community.
Click here to read more about the award

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