We’ve been mixing up some great drinks in the Q Tonic kitchen. Enjoy.
Q-cumber Fizz
Developed for Q Tonic by bartender Jim Meehan.
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Siembra Azul Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz fresh grapefruit juice
A dollop of Light Agave Nectar (Sweet Cactus Farms Organic)
3 cucumber wheels (2 muddled, 1 garnish)
1 oz Q tonic
- Add the agave nectar, lime, grapefruit juice and 2 cucumber slices to a mixing glass and muddle
- Add the tequila and shake and strain into a fizz glass
- Top with 1 oz Q tonic and garnish with a cucumber wheel on the rim of the glass
Bitter Poetry
Developed for Q Tonic by mixologist Jerri Banks.
1.5 oz Junipero Gin
1 oz Fresh Orange juice
½ oz Acacia Honey
½ Teaspoon Freshly Grated Ginger
2 Dashes Fee Bros Orange Bitters
1 oz Q Tonic
1 orange twist
Glass: Cocktail/Martini
- In cocktail shaker, add all ingredients except for tonic.
- Add ice, shake well and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
- Top with Q Tonic.
- Garnish with orange twist.
A Bitter Lady
A keeps-you-clean drink, suggested by a not so bitter southern lady, LeNell Smothers.
- Fill lowball glass with ice
- Add 2 oz bitters, Meletti or Averna are good options
- Top with at least 3 oz Q Tonic
- Garnish as desired.
T is for Trouble
When you’re looking for it.
- Place 4 slices and seeds of jalapeño in a cocktail shaker
- Add 3 oz of your favorite blanco tequila
- Vigorously muddle and then shake with ice
- Pour into a martini glass
- Top with 3 oz Q Tonic.
- Garnish with a chili pepper or a lime wedge as desired
Note – Tequila can also be infused with jalapeño by cutting jalapeños in half lengthwise and placing them overnight in no more than 2 cups of blanco tequila per jalapeño. Strain before serving.
Incan Cure
What Bingham also discovered in Peru.
- Fill lowball glass with ice
- Add 2 oz Campari
- Add 1 oz Orange Liqueur
- Top with Q Tonic as desired
Holi-tonic
A festive drink adapted from Gourmet Magazine.
- Bring 2 12-oz bags of fresh cranberries, 1 cup of sugar, and 1/2 cup water to simmer in a sauce pan.
- Stir occasionally, until berries begin to pop, about 2 minutes
- Drain cranberries in a fine-mesh sieve into a pitcher.
- Set aside 2 cups of cranberries and force the rest through the sieve.
- Discard solids remaining in sieve then add set aside cranberries to the mixture.
- Chill until cold, about 2 hours.
- Add 1 1/4 cups gin. Stir
- Fill highball glasses will ice.
- Pour cranberry mixture into glasses
- Top off glasses with Q Tonic as desired
Makes 10 drinks
The Lifflander
A style all his own.
- Fill a shaker with ice
- Add 2 oz of your favorite Vodka
- Add 2 oz Chambord
- Vigorously shake
- Pour into a martini glass
- Top off with 2 oz Q Tonic
- Stir
- Float a few fresh whole raspberries
Note: this can also be made into a cooler, served in a highball glass over ice, or even better, crushed ice.
Gin-ger Tonic
Adapted from Gramercy Tavern.
- Fill a highball glass with ice
- Add 2 oz of your favorite gin
- Add 1 oz ginger infused simple syrup
- Add .5 oz lime juice
- Top with 3 oz Q Tonic
- Stir
- Garnish with a lemon wedge and/or a piece of candied ginger.
Garden Tonic
Created by Naren Young with Bobo.
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Beefeater Gin
.5 oz. Maraschino
Dash of fresh lime juice
1 dash of Bitter Truth celery bitters
3 oz Q tonic
- Build and stir
- Garnish with fresh mint, cucumber and a lime wedge