Happy Hour: Sage Lady

Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 oz Absolut mango vodka
- 2 or 3 fresh sage leaves
- 3 cucumber slices
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 1/2 oz Cointreau
- Dash peach bitters

Muddle cucumber, simple syrup and sage. Shake with ice and fine strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a spanked sage leaf. {Source: Cocktail Times}

Happy Hour: Convertible

Ingredients
2 ounces Bacardi Rum
1/4 ounce Maraschino liqueur
2 ounces coconut milk
1 ounce simple syrup
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
5 ice cubes

Instructions

1. Blend all ingredients with ice and pour into wine glass.

2. Garnish with a lime twist.

Source: Colin Cowie

Happy Hour: Vodka Gimlet

Ingredients
2 oz vodka
1/2 oz Rose's unsweetened lime juice

Instructions

Combine all the ingredients in a mixing glass with several ice cubes. Stir well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Source: Colin Cowie

Happy Hour: Coviello Cup

Ingredients
3 leaves of fresh basil
4 parts Stolichnaya® elit™ vodka
2 parts orange juice
1 part sweet vermouth
1 part simple syrup
Diced cucumber
Cucumber sphere for garnish

Instructions

1. Pack a double rocks glass with ice and three basil leaves.

2. In a shaker, mix the additional ingredients with the diced cucumber. Shake vigorously and strain into glass.

3. Garnish with a cucumber sphere.

Source: Colin Cowie

Happy Hour: Strepe Chepe

This is a fabulous, refreshing, and potent concoction, which is ideal for launching a summer party. The tricky thing about frozen drinks like this one is that you don't taste the alcohol. It can give such a fresh, innocent impression but it can sneak up on you. So be careful, and enjoy!

Ingredients
8 ounces high-quality vodka
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons superfine sugar, plus more to taste
1/2 cup fresh mint leaves, tightly packed

Instructions
Combine all the ingredients in a blender full of ice cubes and blend until the contents achieve a uniform frozen consistency. Add more sugar periodically as needed, or until the mixture is just right. Serve in champagne flutes.

Source: Colin Cowie

Happy Hour: Mint Summer Night-ini

Ingredients

• 2 parts Stoli Blakberi™ vodka
• 1 part fresh cucumber juice
• Splash of simple syrup
• Mint leaves to taste
• Thin slices of cucumber for garnish

Instructions

1. Muddle mint leaves and shake ingredients over ice. Strain into chilled martini glass.

2. Garnish with sprig of mint and thin slices of cucumber.

Source: Colin Cowie

Happy Hour: B&B (Blakberi & Basil)

Ingredients

• 1 part Stoli Blakberi™
• Basil to taste
• Sparkling lemonade

Instructions

1. Muddle basil with Stoli Blakberi™.

2. Shake with rocks, strain into a tumbler with rock and top with sparkling lemonade and basil.

Source: Colin Cowie