Cocktails: Patio Pounder
Outdoor Dreams' Cocktail Hour
Patio Pounder
We have partnered with Beth Dixon of Salt & Acid to bring you the Outdoor Dreams' Cocktail Hour. Beth has been in the restaurant industry for over 19 years, working at many of Richmond's finest restaurants including Can Can, Pasture, Perch, and L'Opossum. She also currently serves as President for the Richmond, VA chapter of the United States Bartenders’ Guild. Her company Salt & Acid provides professional bartending services for private events, special occasions, and beverage consulting.
This drink can only be described as highly crushable. Watermelon paired with agave spirits, citrusy bitter Aperol, balanced with the acidity of lime, shaken and chilled and served ice cold. Looking for the perfect drink you and your friends can pound on the patio? Look no further. This is it.
Ingredients
1 oz. Mezcal
1 oz. Tequila
.5 oz. Aperol
.5 oz. lime
2 oz. fresh watermelon juice
Garnish: Hawaiian black salt
Instructions
Patio Pounder
Add ingredients to shaker tin.
Add ice and shake for around 20 seconds.
Strain over ice in a Margarita glass rimmed with Hawaiian Black Salt.
Enjoy!
Be careful! This delicious cocktail goes down easy...a little too easy.
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