Many cocktails require muddled ingredients. There are many options, from the Mojito to the Wisconsin Old Fashioned. A muddler is a business that includes mint, other herbs, cucumber slices, ginger, and any other edible ingredients in solid form.
These 10 cocktails were created by top bartenders and will inspire you to get out your muddler:
Gin Gin Mule
Audrey Saunders created this ginger-and-mint-flavoured gin beverage. It was very popular at her bar Pegu club for a long time. Mix a mint sprig and simple syrup in a blender. Then, add London dry Gin and homemade ginger ale to the mixture.
Fresh Berry Delicious
Charlotte Voisey, a bar vet, created this refreshing and fruity drink. Mix strawberries with honey syrup. Next, add raspberry-flavoured vodka Licor 43, blood Orange liqueur, and lemon juice. Finally, shake it all together. Garnish it with a strawberry half.
Ginger Smash
Jason Kosmas Dushan Zaric, employees only in New York City, created the recipe. They also own Miami, Los Angeles and Singapore. Mix fresh ginger and pineapple chunks with sugar. Add light rum, maraschino, apple liqueurs, and lime juice. For a festive tropical touch, top it off with a pineapple leaf.
Boat House Punch
The large-format cocktail by Julie Reiner, Clover Club, and Leyenda Brooklyn begins with a lemon-oleo Saccharum. This is made by mingling lemon peels with sugar. The ingredients for the cocktail include gin and Aperol, St.Germain, lemon, orange, and grapefruit juices. All of it is topped off with a bottle of sparkling rose. This is sure to please everyone.
Tequila Mockingbird
This drink is essentially a variation of the Spicy Margarita. It was created by Greg Seider, a New York City bartender. The drink starts with watermelon chunks mixed with jalapeno slices. Next, the Margarita ingredients tequila and lime juice are added, and the drink is shaken before being served on the rocks.
Mezcal Mule
This is not your average Mule version. Jim Meehan created this riff while working at PDT NYC. It involves cucumber slices mixed with mezcal, lime juice, and passion fruit puree. The ginger beer is added to the mixture and garnished with fresh ginger, a cucumber slice, and chile powder.
La Estrella
Phil Ward, a New York City bartender, starts the cocktail by mingling watermelon chunks and soda water. Then add aged rum and lime juice. Finally, add a pinch of cayenne pepper. A strawberry-and-pineapple garnish provides sweetness to balance the spice.
Blood Sage
Ryan Magarian, a bartender and cofounder at Aviation Gin, created this cocktail to showcase the delicate flavours of his gin. This cocktail calls for blood oranges mixed with sage leaves, then shaken with simple syrup, gin, and egg yolk. This creates a perfect base to add a sage leaves garnish.
Space Gin Smash
This cocktail was created by Angus Winchester (British bar pro). It starts with a fruit salad of ingredients muddled together in a shaker. The minty-fruity effect is completed with a festive garnish of the grape, mint sprig and an apple fan.
Jamaican Breeze
Willy Shine creates this tropical cocktail. It starts with muddled chunks of fresh ginger. The drink features rum, pineapple juice, simple syrup, and Angostura bitters. A lime wheel is added to finish it off.