A well-stocked bar makes for one happy Austinite.
While you may have the usual drink-making tools on hand, these cocktail jiggers + ingredients will elevate your cocktail making game next time you reach for the shaker.
🥃 Mixers
Where to get it: Whole Foods, Thom’s Market, Ani’s Day & Night
How to use it: Combine grenadine, lime juice, and this ginger beer to create the perfect Shirley Temple.
Where to get it: St. Cecilia Soda Company
How to use it: Mix this local soda with a non-alcoholic spirit to create a spiritless Paloma.
🥃 Syrups, bitters + more
Where to get it: Central Market, Total Wine & More, Salt & Time, J&J Spirits
How to use it: Get creative and use this in a cola mocktail. Don’t forget the lime.
Bubbs Strawberry Hibiscus Syrup
Where to get it: Barrett’s Coffee
How to use it: Include this in your favorite sparkling mocktail.
Where to get it: Central Market, Total Wine & More, Salt & Time, J&J Spirits
How to use it: Split a bottle of Liber & Co.’s Texas Grapefruit Shrub and Ruby Red Grapefruit Cordial to create a tasty mocktail.
Where to get it: Bitters & Bubbles
How to use it: Combine soda water, syrup, and ice to make yourself a satisfying Lemon Lavender Mocktail.
Where to get it: Barrett’s Coffee
How to use it: For a refreshing drink, add lemon, sugar, and ice to this sweet tea bitter.
🥃 Barware
Where to get it: Liber & Co.
How to use it: Shake things up at your at-home bar with this kit.
Where to get it: Bitters & Bubbles
How to use it: Pair this kit with a non-alcoholic bourbon + use the recipe cards to help you.
Where to get it: Spiritless
How to use it: Get jiggy with it by using this device that allows you to measure 1-ounce + 2-ounce pours.
Spiritless Jalisco 55 Paloma
- 2 oz Spiritless Jalisco 55
- 4 oz grapefruit soda
- ¼ oz fresh lime juice
Build ingredients in a highball glass (except soda). Then add ice, top it with soda, stir gently, and garnish with a grapefruit peel. (Salt rim optional: Rim glass with salt by rubbing a lime piece around the edge of glass and rolling glass in coarse salt, then brush off the excess salt.)
Summer Basil Spritz from Sans Bar
- 6 fresh strawberries, sliced
- 6-8 fresh basil leaves
- 1 oz agave or honey
- Ice cubes
- 2 oz lemon juice
- 2 cups club soda, chilled
- Additional fresh basil leaves, optional
In a shaker, muddle strawberries, basil, and honey or agave. Fill the shaker with ice, then add lemon juice. Next, cover + shake for 10 seconds. After that, strain the liquid into a serving glass with ice, then top it with club soda and garnish it with a fresh strawberry.
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