Valentine’s Day is upon us! A day to celebrate love, a special someone — or to just drink. Whether you’re spending this year’s Valentine’s Day with a significant other, or on your own with the home bar, we’ve rounded up 10 amazing cocktails that are bound to make your day just a little bit brighter.
Roses are Red Violets are Blue(berry)
Ingredients
1 part Belvoir Elderflower & Rose Lemonade
1 part Lemon juice
2 parts Pineapple juice
frozen berries
Directions: Shake all the ingredients together with ice and strain in to a chilled cocktail glass.Sprinkle crushed frozen raspberries & blueberries onto the froth on top of the drink formed by the shaking.
Love Potion #9
Ingredients
½ ounce Golden Rum
½ ounce Belvoir Elderflower & Rose Lemonade
2 ½ ounces Pomegranate juice
2 squeezed lime wedges
Directions: Pour all ingredients into a hi-ball filled with cubed ice and garnish with fresh mint
Blissful Blush
Ingredients
1 ½ ounces gin
5 raspberries
3 lime wedges
½ ounce Belvoir Elderflower & Rose Lemonade
1 ounce lychee juice
Lychee and raspberry to garnish (optional)
Directions: Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake with plenty of ice. Strain into a highball glass over fresh cubed ice and garnish with a lychee and raspberry on a stick.
Any Which Way But Left
Created by Matt Friedlander, Fools Gold
Whether you have a date or find yourself swiping on Tinder, we’ve got the perfect cocktail to get you through it. “Any Which Way But Left” is a light and refreshing cocktail with a hint of chocolate that compliments all your Valentine’s Day celebrations.
Ingredients
1 oz. Jägermeister
1 oz. Aperol
1 oz. Brovo Amaro
Chocolate Molé Bitters
Grapefruit Peel
Directions: Combine all ingredients together, stir & strain into rocks glass over fresh ice and garnish with chocolate molé bitters and a grapefruit peel.
