We received a small crate of moonshine recently from American Born, a distillery out of Nashville, Tennessee that makes three different expressions—a 103-proof corn based shine that is surprisingly smooth given the potency and lack of aging, a sweet tea-flavored moonshine and an apple-pie flavored moonshine. While the Original shine is plenty good for sipping over ice, moonshine is really best when mixed into cocktails. And mix we did, trying out a number of really simple drinks that you can make at home with ingredients you probably already have on hand. Here are our five favorite moonshine cocktails, all of which happen to be perfect for warm weather sipping.
Mickey Mickleson
Recipe/photo from American Born Moonshine
Ingredients
2 oz. American Born Dixie (sweet tea flavored moonshine)
1 oz. lemonade
Fresh mint
Directions: Muddle a few leaves of fresh mint on the bottom of an Old Fashioned glass. Add moonshine and lemonade, stir, add a big ball of ice.
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