Valentine’s Day Drinks

Valentine’s Day is here, and whether you’re spending it with a significant other or crying to a cheesy Nicholas Sparks movie with your girlfriends, we can all get down with a festive drink. Either way, these Valentine’s Day-inspired drinks are for you, and as always, enjoy responsibly. 

Dirty Shirley 

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cups vodka

• ½ cup lime juice

• 2 tablespoons grenadine

• 1 ½ cups ginger beer

• Optional: maraschino cherries

Instructions

1. Place all ingredients (except ginger beer) in a cocktail shaker 

2. Add chunky ice and shake a few times

3. Add ginger beer and lightly stir

4. Add more lime if you’d like

5. Pour and add maraschino cherries (optional)

 Recipe Credits: Noble Pig

Cranberry Vodka Spritzer

Ingredients

• Ice

• 2 ½ cups vodka

• 2 ½ cups seltzer

• 2 cups cranberry juice

• 2 tablespoons honey

• Optional: 1 orange, thinly sliced

Instructions

1. Add seltzer, cranberry juice, vodka, and ice to a pitcher

2. Mix in honey and stir

3. Add orange slices and stir again

Recipe Credits: Food Network

Manhattan 

Ingredients

• Ice

• 2 tablespoons sweet vermouth

• ¼ cup whiskey

• Optional: maraschino cherries

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients and stir

2. Strain and serve

3. Optional: add maraschino cherries

Recipe Credits: NYTimes Cooking

Frozé

Ingredients

• Blender 

• 8 cups ice

• 1 bottle of rosé, chilled

• 4 cups chopped strawberries 

• 2 tablespoons lemon juice 

• ¼ cup vodka

Instructions

1. Add half a bottle of rose, 1 cup strawberries, half the vodka, and a tablespoon of lemon juice to a blender

2. Add 4 cups of ice and blend until slushy

3. If the solution is too watery, add more ice and blend 

4. Repeat the process with the remaining ingredients

5. Serve and add some strawberries as a garnish (optional)

Recipe Credits: Delish

Pomegranate Margarita 

Ingredients

• 2 cups tequila*

• 1 cup triple sec*

• 2 cups pomegranate juice*

• ½ cup lime juice*

• Club soda

• Salt (optional)

• Lime wedges (optional)

*chilled 

Instructions

1. Combine tequila, triple sec, pomegranate and lime juice

2. Run the lime wedges around the rims of the glasses, then dip the glasses in salt (optional)

3. Pour about ½  a cup of the mix into each glass

4. Top off with club soda

Recipe Credits: The Redhead Bake