It has been a very long time since we’ve brought cocktails to you on Design*Sponge. I credit my work on the Behind the Bar column with a later-in-life curiosity for cocktails. In my home’s dining room, we have an old oval-shaped, two-tiered, wheeled wooden bar cart that is so loaded with bottles of spirits I can’t even roll it! Even with so many different spirits, my go-to cocktail is a gin and tonic with lime. Even still, I’m up for tasting anything that sounds interesting, especially with ginger or citrus.
Because we don’t cover cocktails regularly, I thought I would put together a big post with a collection of four recipes. Two can be made as punches, and two are recipes for individual cocktails. All of them have a tropical profile with a common ingredient: lime. Our featured cocktail experts are Shannon Mustipher, Maggie Hoffman, the Cocktail Bandits, and Megan Krigbaum. Try one to kick off summer and let us know what you think! —Kristina
This week, one lucky reader will also win a cocktail making package! It includes a copy of Maggie’s, The Cocktail Bandits’, and Megan’s cocktail books and Cocktail Kingdom’s Essential Cocktail Set. The set includes a Seamless Yarai® Mixing Glass (550ml), Hoffman® Barspoon (33.5cm), Japanese Style Jigger 1oz/2oz (30ml/60ml), Set of Koriko® Weighted Shaking Tins, Koriko® Hawthorne Strainer. To enter for a chance to win, just answer the following question in the comments section below: Describe your favorite cocktail or mocktail and what ingredient makes it your favorite. Tell us all about it! Comment entries will close on June 6, at 5PM EST. The winner’s name will be posted in the comments. Open to US residents only. {Image of cocktail set above by Eric Medsker}
About the cocktail experts:
Shannon Mustipher is a spirits educator, cocktail consultant, and expert on the topic of rum and cane spirits. She has poured cocktails in settings ranging from neighborhood pubs to Michelin restaurants, and is a founding member of the Cane Club Collective. Her first cocktail book, Tiki – Modern Tropical Drinks, will be published by Rizzoli in Spring 2019. Find Shannon on Instagram @shannonmustipher. Shannon’s cocktail is the Parasol (pictured above, by Noah Fecks).
Maggie Hoffman writes about cocktails, wine, and beer for the James Beard Award-winning website Serious Eats, where she founded the drinks section in 2011 and served as managing editor. Hoffman has written for Wine Enthusiast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Magazine, as well as the websites of Saveur, Food & Wine, and others. Maggie recently published the book The One Bottle Cocktail: More than 80 Recipes with Fresh Ingredients and a Single Spirit. Find Maggie online at Instagram @maggiejhoffman and on Twitter @maggiejhoffman. Maggie’s cocktail is Pineapple-Ginger Daiquiri Punch (pictured below, cover and cocktail images by Kelly Puleio)
Johnny Caldwell and Taneka Reaves, listed among Imbibe Magazine’s “75 People to Watch in 2018,” are the dynamic duo known as Cocktail Bandits. Since launching in 2013, Caldwell and Reaves have hosted the 2017 Saveur Blog Awards and already have collaborations with international brands such as Red Bull, Avion Tequila, Renaissance Hotel and Toyota under their belts. Their first book all about Charleston cocktail culture is called Holy Spirits! Find them on on Twitter @cocktailbandits and Instagram @cocktailbandits. Cocktail Bandits’ cocktail is the Gentle Lady Gimlet (pictured below, cover and cocktail images by Jovon Roberts)
Megan Krigbaum is a wine and spirits writer, a contributing editor at PUNCH, and the former deputy wine editor at Food and Wine. There, she wrote a monthly wine column called “Bottle Service,” in addition to regular feature stories pertaining to wine, spirits, and beer. Her book, The Essential Cocktail Book: A Complete Guide to Modern Drinks with 150 Recipes, was published last year. Find Megan on Twitter @mdkrigbaum and on Instagram @mdkrigbaum. Megan Krigbaum’s cocktail is the Show Me State (pictured below, image by Daniel Krieger)
from Design*Sponge http://www.designsponge.com/2018/05/memorial-day-tropical-cocktail-extravaganza-giveaway.html
from Home Improvment http://notelocreesnitu.tumblr.com/post/174241169424
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