Give a Toast to Your Dad With One of These Delish Father's Day Cocktails!

1. Kilbeggan Dads Secret Dram

Recipe by Eoghan Owen Hughes, bar manager at the Knockranny House Hotel in Mayo, Ireland.

Ingredients:

2 Parts Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey

3/4 Part Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice

1 Part Honey Syrup (1/2 honey 1/2 water)

2 Dashes Orange Bitters

1 Part Egg White

Directions: Pour all ingredients into a shaker and shake to mix well. Add ice and shake for another 15 seconds. Pour into a large tumbler over ice.

2. Nordic Cider

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Vikingfjord Vodka

.5 oz. Allspice Dram

.5 oz. Lemon Juice

1.5 oz. Apple Cider

Dash of Baked Apple Bitters

Directions: Combine ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake with ice and strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Add a red apple slice for garnish.

3. VitaFrute Cocktails by VEEV

$12.95 to $14.95, Margarita, Cosmopolitan, Lemonade

4. Pepino El Pyu by Tippling Bros.

Ingredients: 

1 ½  fl oz. Tequila blanco 

¾ fl oz. Lemon juice


1 fl oz.Cucumber juice


1 fl oz. Hoja santa syrup

Directions: Add all ingredients. 
Shake over ice
. Garnish with cumin salt (in equal amounts) and cucumber spear. 

For Hoja Santa Syrup:

4 tablespoons hoja santa (root beer leaf or piper auritum) sub for star anise or mint if not available Simple syrup.

Place all ingredients in a pot. Bring to a boil. Fine strain. Add 1 oz. vodka per quart and then refrigerate. 

5. Cruzan New Fashion

Ingredients: 

1 part Cruzan Aged Dark Rum

1 tsp. sugar (or a sugar cube)

Dash of bitters

Orange slice

A splash of club soda

Directions: Muddle the orange slice with a sugar cube and bitters in a rocks glass. Add ice and remaining ingredients and stir. Garnish at the end with a cherry.

6. Southern Smash

Ingredients: 

1 oz. Alize COCO Peach

1 oz. Bourbon

1 oz. Lemon Juice

Handful of Mint

Directions: Muddle mint and lemon juice. Add other ingredients, shake, and strain into glass over crushed ice. Garnish with mint spring and lemon wedge.