Cooking Lesson #1175: Blackberry Whisky Lemonade

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

How you doin’? Can you believe it—It’s Spring! It’s been a rough winter for over 200 million people this year and in some areas the foul weather is still hanging on. I saw one weather report where, in one day, they had rain, hail and snow. Then in Oahu, Hawaii, my old beach house was all but washed away with 13-1/2-inches of rain in just over 2 days.
 
Here in Las Vegas, the temperatures went from the high 50s to 98 degrees last week. I watched most of the trees and shrubs burst into bloom seemingly overnight. And then there are the birds; I don’t know where they all came back from overnight, but they like to “sing” very early each morning. The whole neighborhood is in song with sounds of so many species I can’t begin to count them—nature is amazing! The block’s hummingbirds have returned along with nesting quail and the one ominous turkey vulture who keeps guard in our back yard—he is one ugly son-of-a-bitch.
 
So, with all the spring excitement, it’s time for a spring cocktail. It must be so… all the fast food joints are already selling their summertime lemonades. Burger King introduced a strawberry lemonade along with their frozen pink lemonade. McDonald’s brought back frozen lemonade, too. So, here’s my spring beverage they can’t hold a candle to—My Blackberry Whisky Lemonade.

​Prep Time: 5 minutes
Yield: 1 cocktail

Ingredients 
2 ounces Blackberry Whiskey
1/2 ounce Blackberry Liqueur
3 ounces lemonade
1 squeeze fresh lime juice
Garnish: fresh blackberries and mint sprig
 
Directions

1. Read the recipe all the way through before starting. Measure all ingredients and have at your side.
2. Add the blackberry whisky and liqueur to a double Old Fashioned glass
3. Add ice, leaving room for the lemonade, and stir.
4. Float the lemonade over the top and add a squeeze of fresh lime juice.
5. Garnish with a blackberry and a mint spring.
6. Imbibe with the freshness of spring in your heart.

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ChefSecret: For a really great start on a chilled cocktail, store the raspberry whisky in the freezer.
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Quip of the Day:  I told my drink a joke—it cracked up. Now it’s on the rocks!
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