Elevate your next dinner party with these craft cocktail recipes.
There’s a lot to love about Morgantown’s Tin 202. It’s a classy joint with a menu packed with farm-fresh gourmet cuisine. But it’s the bar that really sets this former soda fountain apart.
Tin 202 is the place to go for cocktails made with small-batch spirits, fresh-squeezed juices, and local fruits and herbs. And beverage director Josh Graham ensures there’s always a new, exciting drink to sip. That’s one reason he was recently named Best Craft Cocktail Bartender by readers of Morgantown magazine.
In case you can’t make it to Morgantown—or you just want to impress friends with some homemade mixology—Graham provided us with recipes for some of Tin 202’s best-loved drinks. 202 High Street, Morgantown, 304.212.5863, tin202.com, @tin202wv on Facebook
High and Pleasant
Equipment
- Mixing glass
- Cocktail glass
Ingredients
- 2 oz bourbon Smooth Ambler Old Scout American Whiskey
- 3/4 oz elderflower liqueur
- 10-12 drops Bittermens Hopped Grapefruit Bitters
- lemon rind
Instructions
- In a mixing glass, combine bourbon, elderflower liqueur, and grapefruit bitters.
- Stir 35 to 40 times and strain into a chilled coupe cocktail glass.
- Squeeze lemon oil from the lemon rind.
Cucumber Gin Gimlet
Equipment
- Cocktail shaker
- Muddler
- Strainer
- Cocktail glass
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber sliced
- 3/4 oz simple syrup
- 3/4 oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
- 2 oz gin Hendrick's
- soda water
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, muddle 3 cucumber slices with simple syrup and lime juice.
- Add gin and shake 25 to 30 times.
- Strain into an old fashioned glass and add a splash of soda water.
- Top with cucumber slice for garnish.
Notes
Industry Standard (Josh’s own creation)
Equipment
- Cocktail shaker
- Strainer
- Coupe cocktail glass
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz rye whiskey
- 3/4 oz Aperol Italian apéritif
- 1/2 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 oz honey syrup
- fresh rosemary
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, combine rye whiskey, Aperol, lemon juice, and honey syrup.
- Shake ingredients 25 to 30 times and double-strain into a coupe cocktail glass.
- Garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary.
Notes
Blueberry Blitz Mocktail
Equipment
- Cocktail shaker
- Old fashioned glass
Ingredients
- 3/4 oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
- 3/4 oz blueberry purée
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- 1 ginger beer
- 1 basil leaf
Instructions
- Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker.
- Strain into an old fashioned glass.
- Fill halfway with ginger beer.
- Garnish with basil leaf.
Notes
Spritz
Equipment
- Cocktail glass
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz Aperol
- 2 oz Prosecco
- 1 oz soda water
- ice
- 1 orange sliced
- olives
Instructions
- In a glass without ice, combine Aperol, Prosecco, and soda water.
- Add scoop of ice.
- Garnish with orange slice and olive.
Barrel Aged Gin and Tonic
Ingredients
- 3 ¾ ounce Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. Classic Tonic Syrup
- 1½ ounce Smooth Ambler Stillhouse Barrel Aged Gin
- Soda water
- Ice
- Lemon rind
Instructions
- In a glass without ice, combine tonic syrup and gin.
- Fill glass half way with soda water and fill with ice.
- Squeeze oil from single peel of lemon rind on top.
- Garnish with twist of lemon.
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