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7 Brunch Cocktails to Make This Easter

Who doesn’t love brunch! And more importantly who doesn’t love brunch cocktails? It is the perfect meal in my opinion, you can order a breakfast dish or a lunch dish,…

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Who doesn't love brunch! And more importantly who doesn't love brunch cocktails? It is the perfect meal in my opinion, you can order a breakfast dish or a lunch dish, it's acceptable to order a cocktail at 10am, and it's a great excuse to gather with friends.

Well if you are a fan of brunch like I am you'll be happy to know April is National Brunch Month (who knew?) and I will certainly be celebrating.

I like brunch so much, this year I am shifting away from Easter dinner and hosting Easter brunch for my family which of course will include a mimosa and bloody Mary bar, plus one or two of these brunch cocktails.

Thanks to our friends at Cantera Negra Tequila, Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon and Gray Whale Gin, for sending us recipes for the perfect brunch cocktails.

Take a look at 7 different cocktails you could make for your Easter brunch or any brunch you're hosting:

Cantera Negra Blood Orange Mimosa

Cantera Negra Blood Orange Mimosa

Ingredients:

  • 1oz Cantera Negra Reposado Tequila
  • 1oz Aperol
  • 2oz freshly squeezed blood orange juice
  • Champagne or sparkling wine

Instructions:

  • Shake all ingredients (minus champagne).
  • Strain into highball glass over ice.
  • Slowly add champagne to fill.
  • Garnish with a blood orange wheel

Cantera Negra Tequila Lime Mojito

Cantera Negra Tequila Lime Mojito with Cantera Negra Silver Tequila

Ingredients:

  • 2oz Cantera Negra Silver Tequila
  • 1oz lime juice
  • 1oz simple syrup
  • 2 to 4oz soda water
  • 6 mint leaves, plus additional for garnish

Instructions:

  • In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint leaves.
  • Add the lime juice, syrup and tequila and fill the cocktail shaker with ice and shake until cold.
  • Place ice into a glass, and strain in the drink.
  • Top off the glass with soda water.
  • Garnish with additional mint leaves

Whiskey Crusta

Whiskey Crusta

Ingredients:

  • 1.5oz Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon
  • .5oz 1883 Maison Routin Apple Syrup
  • .25oz Luxardo Maraschino
  • .25 lemon
  • 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Bitters

Instructions:

  • Shake ingredients with ice & strain into glass with sugar crusted rim.
  • Garnish with long lemon peel.

Golden Fizz

Whiskey Golden Fizz

Ingredients:

  • 2oz Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon
  • 3/4 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1/4 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 medium egg yolk
  • 4oz soda water

Instructions:

  • Dry shake all ingredients (minus soda water) in a cocktail shaker.
  • Add ice and shake again.
  • Strain into a good sized fizz glass, and fill up the glass with seltzer. Mix well with a spoon and serve.

Gray Whale Mimosa

Gray Whale Mimosa

Ingredients:

  • 2oz Gray Whale Gin
  • 1.5oz fresh orange juice
  • .5oz fresh lemon juice
  • .5oz Pavan
  • .5oz velvet falernum
  • Golden Road Mango Cart Ale

Instructions:

  • Combine all ingredients, except beer, into a shaking tin.
  • Shake hard, then fine strain neat into rocks glass that is rimmed with Tajin Clasico seasoning.
  • Top with Golden Road Mango Cart Ale.

Whale Flower

Whale Flower

Ingredients:

  • 2oz Gray Whale Gin
  • .5oz elderflower liqueur
  • 2oz grapefruit juice
  • Soda water

Instructions:

  • Combine Gray Whale Gin, elderflower liqueur and grapefruit juice into a shaker with ice and shake.
  • Fine strain into a glass over fresh ice and add a splash of soda water.
  • Garnish with grapefruit wedge and lavender sprig

Golden State of Mind

Golden State of Mind

Ingredients:

  • 1.5oz Gray Whale Gin
  • .75oz Aperol
  • .5oz fresh lemon juice
  • .25oz simple syrup
  • 2oz grapefruit kombucha

Instructions:

  • Combine all ingredients, except kombucha, into a shaking tin.
  • Shake, then pour cocktail over ice in a Collins glass.
  • Top with grapefruit kombucha, and garnish with a grapefruit peel