Springtime Cocktails For Taurus Season

It’s Taurus season - time to make some cocktails for that patient, grounding bull in your life. Check out 4 cocktail recipes below they are sure to love!

EMERALD COCKTAIL

Your birthstone beverage my dear Taurus - Happy Birthday to you!

In mixing glass add:

2 oz Irish Whiskey

1 oz Sweet Vermouth

1 dash Orange Bitters

Stir well with ice until chilled.

Strain to a coupe, Nick& Nora, or cocktail glass.

Garnish with an orange twist.

Golden Star Fizz

You are a star, dear Taurus. May this beverage revive you. This recipe comes from Jim Meehan’s The PDT Cocktail Book.

Rinse a fizz or collins glass with a few dashes of Absinthe.

Muddle 4 slices of cucumber and 1 dill sprig with 3/4 oz lemon juice and 3/4 oz pineapple juice in your shaker.

Add: 2 oz Aquavit

Shake well with ice.

Double strain to glass.

Top with sparkling jasmine tea. (PDT uses Golden Star Sparkling White Tea)

Garnish with a cucumber slice.

Herbaceous Julep

Ray Anguiano for Atwood Restaurant, Chicago via Imbibe.

This earthy one is for you, Taurus (earth sign). Cynar contains 13 herbs, most notably artichoke, that give us this earthy flavor. For another Cynar cocktail, inspired by fellow Taurus and author Harper Lee, try a Boo Radley.

In shaker:

Gently muddle 4x mint leaves with 1/2 oz simple syrup

Add:

1/2 oz lemon juice

3/4 oz Cynar

1 1/2 oz Bourbon (Ray uses Buffalo Trace)

Add ice and shake for 10 -15 seconds.

Double strain to a rocks glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish with mint sprig.

Thyme After Thyme

Misty Day Plant Potions tells us, “Taurus rules over the throat, thymus, neck, vocal cords, thyroid (and secondarily the metabolism), voice, and middle ear…specific remedy herbs for the Taurean are those which support the upper respiratory. The most pertinent of these where the respiratory system is concerned is thyme. It’s your thyme!

From Henry Truslow, Basic Kitchen, Charleston, South Carolina via Imbibe

In shaker add:

1 1/2 oz gin

1 oz Cocchi Americano

1 oz Grapefruit Juice

Shake with ice for about 10 -15 seconds. Strain to a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with grapefruit and thyme sprig.