Bourbon Women’s Peach Raspberry Bourbon Sour – Gimme the Peach!

Summer’s in full swing, and we could all use a little easy decadence so here’s a peach raspberry bourbon sour for the Bourbon Women cocktail for the month. I put together the most summer-worthy tastes all into one cocktail that’s a sweet, tart, smoky, luscious cocktail topped with a raspberry popsicle. Multiply the ingredients by 4 for a larger batch, but make sure you get a box of popsicles to go with your cocktails if you do. They’re like candy after they’re infused with the peach and smoke of the cocktail.

Oh summer, how I wish you lasted all year – at least the bounty of fresh fruits and produce grown locally. Choosing my favorite summer flavors wasn’t too hard. I had to start with peach, and a fresh watermelon from the farmer’s market was already cut.

My favorite summer smoothie is a blend of watermelon and peach together in the blender. No additions, no fancy stuff, just two summer fruits at the height of the season blending up into perfection.

As a result, I had a little extra peach-watermelon puree to put to good use, and pairing those two flavors with some bourbon, lemon juice and simple syrup was a winner.

To add in a little of the smoke from all the grills fired up late in the afternoon for dinner, I put in just a touch of mezcal. If you don’t have any, a lightly peated Scotch would work beautifully as well.

Top this with a raspberry popsicle and it’s the perfect porch drink. But there’s a trick to eating the popsicle. When I had the original idea for the popsicle thought that I might eat a little bit of it, sip on the cocktail, eat a little, and go back and forth until the cocktail and popsicle were finished.

However, I discovered that 1) the popsicle doesn’t melt quickly in the cocktail given that it’s on ice, and 2) waiting until the cocktail is done meant that you get to eat a popsicle that’s infused with the flavors of the cocktail.

And bourbon, smoke and peach infused popsicles taste amazing. True summer tastes all in one cocktail!

Gimme the Peach!

Heather Wibbels

Summer’s in full swing, and we could all use a little easy decadence. I put together the most summer-worthy tastes all into one cocktail that’s a sweet, tart, smoky, luscious cocktail topped with a raspberry popsicle. Multiply the ingredients by 4 for a larger batch, but make sure you get a box of popsicles to go with your cocktails if you do. They’re like candy after they’re infused with the peach and smoke of the cocktail. See notes for short cuts.

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Course Drinks

Cuisine Bourbon Cocktail

Servings 1

Ingredients

  

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• 2 ounces peach-infused bourbon see notes
• 2 ounces peach-watermelon puree**
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• 3 dashes peach bitters
• ¼ to ½ ounce lightly smoked mezcal optional, but highly recommended
• Garnish: raspberry popsicle and mint sprig

Instructions

 

• Combine bourbon, peach-watermelon puree, lemon juice, simple, bitters and mezcal in a shaking tin. Add ice and shake until it’s so cold it hurts. Double strain into a large rocks glass filled with ice. Top with a raspberry popsicle and a mint sprig.

Notes

You can skip infusing the bourbon with peach, it just adds more peach flavor to the cocktail. If you want to infuse, fill a quart jar with 2 cups of peeled, sliced peaches, then top it with bourbon that went ½ inch over the top of the peaches. I let it infuse for two weeks, then strained it and placed it in the fridge.

** Peach-Watermelon Puree: combine 1 cup of fresh, sliced, peeled peaches with 1 cup of watermelon and blend on high. Add ½ ounce of lemon juice to it to help it keep its color. It will slowly turn brown like anything with fresh peaches, so use within a day or two.

Keyword bourbon cocktail, lime, peach, popsicle, raspberry

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