Recipes

So many delicious ways to use Sage & Sea Farms drinking vinegars - from cocktails to marinades. Here are just a few - feel free to email us your favorite! 

COCKTAILS AND MOCKTAILS

Simple Champagne Cocktail 

• .5-1 ounce your favorite Sage & Sea Shrub
• sugar cube (optional)
• fill remainder of flute with champagne, prosecco or sparkling water

Dirty Hot Sweet (created by Deb Counts-Tabor of Sage & Sea Shrub during a snowy and slow distillers show!)

• 2 oz pepper vodka
• .5 oz Sage & Sea Tomato Shrub
• .5 oz green olive juice
• shake with ice, strain into martini glass, garnish with a cherry tomato and an olive. 

Golden Manzana (this was the Best in Class award-winning recipe at the Great American Distiller's Fest 2013)

• 1 oz Skip Rock Potato Vodka
• 1.5 oz El Zacatecano Anejo Mescal
• 1.5 oz Spiced Apple Liqueur
• .5 oz lime juice
• 1.5 oz ginger beer
• 1 oz Sage & Sea Blueberry Lemon Shrub
• shake all but ginger beer with ice, empty into tall glass, add ginger beer and garnish with lime

 Mint Julep

• .25-.5 oz of either Sage & Sea Mint or Honey Mint Shrub
• 2 oz of good bourbon
• combine over crushed ice

 Manhattan (this was the Iron Bartender winner at the Great American Distiller's Fest 2011)

• Hudson Manhattan Rye Whiskey
• Trader Tiki Vanilla Syrup
• Sage & Sea Dark Cherry Shrub
• lemon zest

  Midnight in Paris (from St Honore Boulangerie)

• .5 oz Sage & Sea Orange Shrub
• .5 oz Lillet Blanc
• splash of elderflower syrup
• fill the remainder of the glass with your favorite hard cider
• orange peel for garnish

 Waterfall (from PaaDee Thai, Portland OR)

• 2-3 oz soju (Jinro)
• .25-0.5 oz Sage & Sea Apple Pear Ginger Shrub
• 4-5 thin slices cucumber
• .75 oz strained fresh lemon juice
• .5 oz simple syrup
• Muddle cucumber; add remaining ingredients; shake with ice; strain into bucket/rocks glass. Add giant cube. Garnish with lemon peel, thyme spring, cucumber slices.

Fiery Sermon (Jake Bliven, San Diego)

• 2 oz Goslings
• .5 oz Spiritopia Ginger
• 1 dash Ango
• 2 dashes Sage & Sea Peach Habanero Shrub

Morning Whispers (Jake Bliven, San Diego)