No, I haven’t already this summer gone through an entire handle of tequila infused with jalapenos for making spicy ‘ritas—yet! I have been brining the heat to Aspen, so to speak (we’re experiencing a way-early summer anyway regardless of my cocktail-making), but I’m always looking for more spicy-delicious cocktails. Just in time for Memorial Day, I was thrilled to score recipes from the W Austin’s libationist, Joyce Garrison. Read on for her latest and greatest … after all, nobody does spicy summer cocktails better than Texans.
Jalapeno Cucumber Lemonade
1 ½ oz Tito’s Vodka
2.5 oz Cucumber water
1oz jalapeño infused simple syrup
1oz lemon juice
Build in pint glass
Shake
Strain into glass with Kold draft
Garnish with cucumber spear
Sandia Sipper
1 ½ oz Cazadores Respoda Tequila
.5 oz lime juice
3 cubes watermelon
Pinch of Cayenne pepper
1/8 oz Agave nectar
Muddle watermelon with lime juice in shaker glass. Add all ingredients with ice and shake. Strain into rocks glass with ice and half rim of salt. Garnish with watermelon cube and lime wedge.
Get WET (inspired by the W’s WET pool)
*Hendrick’s gin 1.5oz
St. Germain .5 oz
*Lemon juice .5
*Simple syrup .5 oz
Grapefruit juice 1.5 oz
Bubbles (bubbly water)
Shake all without bubbles and pour over fresh ice then top with bubbles
*I make a version of this cocktail all the time without lemon or simple syrup, and it’s delicious. Other versions use jalapeno-infused gin for that summer spice or tequila for a kick.
Happy summer!!
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