Start 2021 with These 8 Clean Cocktails by MurLarkey Distilled Spirit

The start of a new year means making new year’s resolutions for most. It’s the perfect time to reset and refresh. Although January has been known for its “dry” quality—and we’re not talking about the biting winter air—in the past, with the continuous troubles facing the world, from the pandemic to political stress, it’s understandable that this may not be the year to give up a weekend (or evening) cocktail. However, you can certainly make them healthier!

With so many of us turning to healthier habits in the kitchen, these 8 light and delicious cocktail recipes by MurLarkey Distilled Spirits—a family-owned craft distillery in Virginia—are the perfect way to enjoy a drink, while still cutting out extra calories and staying relatively healthy, for the days or nights that a drink is a must.

Clean & Light Mojito 

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz MurLarkey ImaGINation Gin (An International Gold Medal Winner, and On Sale in VA starting January 1!)

1 lemongrass or ginseng tea bag

Lemon slice

Mint sprig

Directions:

Infuse tea bag in a cup of gin for 30 minutes. Add infused gin, lemon slice, and mint sprig into a tall glass filled with ice. Shake well to muddle. Top with your choice of low-calorie soda. Garnish with another mint sprig.

Clean & Light Hibiscus Berry Blush

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz MurLarkey Divine Clarity Vodka

1 hibiscus berry tea bag

Your choice of berries (blackberries, blueberries, raspberries)

Directions:
Infuse tea bag in a cup of vodka for 30 minutes. Add infused vodka and berries into a highball glass filled with ice. Shake to muddle. Top with your choice of low-calorie soda. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary, basil, or mint.

Clean & Light Martini

Ingredients:

2 oz MurLarkey ImaGINation Gin

¼ oz dry vermouth

Directions:

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

All-Natural Divine Cranberry Splash

Ingredients:

1 oz MurLarkey Divine Clarity Vodka

4 oz club soda

Splash of cranberry juice

Directions:

Pour ingredients into a glass filled with ice. Stir and garnish with a lime wedge.

Divine Mule

Ingredients:

1.5 oz MurLarkey Divine Clarity Vodka

3.5 oz ginger beer

Juice from 1/2 a lime

Garnish: Lime wedge

Directions:

Pour all ingredients into a copper mug with ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Divine Martini

Ingredients:
2 oz MurLarkey Divine Clarity Vodka

Dash of olive juice

Garnish: 3 olives

Directions:

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with 3 olives.

Gin & Tonic

Ingredients:

1.5 oz MurLarkey ImaGINation Gin

4.5 oz tonic water

Garnish: Lime wedge

Directions:

Add all ingredients into a tall glass with ice and stir well. Garnish with lime wedge.

Paloma

Ingredients:

1.5 oz MurLarkey ImaGINation Gin

3 oz Ruby Red grapefruit juice

1 cucumber slice

1 lime wedge

Tonic water

Garnish: Cucumber wheel & lime wedge

Directions:

Add all ingredients except tonic water into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Pour into a highball glass. Top with tonic water. Garnish with cucumber wheel and lime wedge.

 

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