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blackberry bourbon cocktail in highball glass with lemon and mint garnish

Blackberry Bourbon Cooler

Picture of Heather Wibbels, Cocktail Contessa, pouring a cocktailHeather Wibbels
A quick five-ingredient cocktail with muddled blackberries, bright lemon simple syrup, fresh mint, whiskey and tonic, it’s an ode to the hot afternoons of late summer when the garden’s mint is out of control, the blackberries continue to pop up and the bright citrus of lemon sweetens almost everything.
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Course Drinks
Cuisine Bourbon Cocktail
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

  • 5 fresh blackberries
  • ½ oz lemon simple syrup**
  • 6 leaves of mint, spanked and torn in half
  • 1.5 oz bourbon or rye whiskey
  • Topped with citrus tonic water or a citrus seltzer see notes above
  • Garnish: lemon wedges and fresh mint sprig

Instructions
 

  • Muddle blackberries and lemon simple in the bottom of a tall glass. Add mint leaves, muddle lightly again. Add bourbon and fill ½ with ice. Stir briefly, top with soda and stir briefly again. Top with garnish as desired.

Notes

**Lemon Simple Syrup:
  • 3/4 cup lemon juice
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • Peels from the fresh lemons you just juiced – just the peel, no pith.
Combine the juice and sugar in a small saucepan on medium heat, stirring until the sugar is dissolved and it’s at a very low simmer. Add the lemon peels, stir, and let sit for about 5 minutes on low heat. Turn off the heat and let the whole mixture steep for 45 minutes. Strain out the peels, bottle and refrigerate the lemon simple syrup. It will keep about 2 weeks, a little longer if you add some vodka to it.
Keyword blackberry, bourbon, lemon, mint, soda, tonic water
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