Raise a Glass: Perfect Father’s Day Cocktail Recipes

No more beers. These cookout-friendly summer drinks will help the family show their love to dads this Father’s Day.

Check out the recipes below.

The French Manhattan

Ingredients

• 1/2 ounces Cognac Camus
• 1-ounce sweet vermouth
• 2 dashes of Orange Angostura bitters
• Garnish: brandied cherry (or lemon twist, if preferred)

Steps

1. Add the sweet vermouth, and bitters into a mixing glass with ice and stir until well-chilled.
2. Strain into a chilled Nick & Nora or coupe glass.
3. Garnish with a brandished cherry (or a lemon twist, if preferred).

Bourbon Rosemary Punch

Ingredients

• 1 bottle rosemary-infused Aperol (750 mL)*
• 12 ounces bourbon
• 6 ounces honey syrup
• 6 ounces grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed
• 1 bottle of dry sparkling wine (750 mL), to top
• 1 bottle soda water (750 mL), to top
• Garnish: 16 grapefruit wheels
• Garnish: 16 rosemary sprigs

Steps

Serves approximately 16.

1. Combine the rosemary-infused Aperol, bourbon, honey syrup and grapefruit juice in a punch bowl and add large ice cubes.
2. Spoon 3 ounces of punch for each serving into a punch glass filled with ice cubes.
3. Top with a splash of sparkling wine and a splash of soda water.
4. Garnish with a grapefruit wheel and a rosemary sprig.

*Rosemary-infused Aperol: Place 4 sprigs of rosemary in a 750 mL bottle of Aperol and let sit for 6 hours at room temperature, then strain out

Whiskey Smash

Ingredients

• 3 lemon wedges
• 2 ounces bourbon
• 3/4 ounce simple syrup
• 4 mint leaves
• Garnish: mint sprig

Steps

1. Muddle the lemon wedges in a shaker.
2. Add bourbon, simple syrup, mint leaves and ice, and shake until well-chilled.
3. Double-strain into a rock glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Old Pal

Ingredients

• 1 ounce rye whiskey
• 1 ounce Campari
• 1-ounce dry vermouth
• Garnish: lemon twist

Steps

1. Add the rye whiskey, Campari, and dry vermouth into a glass of ice and stir until well-chilled.
2. Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
3. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Summertime

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounce Sazerac rye whiskey
• 3/4 ounce St-Germain elderflower liqueur
• 1/4 ounce simple syrup
• 3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• 1 ounce Fuji apple juice
• Champagne, chilled, to top (approximately 3/4 ounce)
• Garnish: apple cubes

Steps

1. Add the rye whiskey, elderflower liqueur, simple syrup, lemon juice and Fuji apple juice to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
2. Double-strain into a rock glass filled with fresh ice.
3. Top with the Champagne.
4. Garnish with diced apple cubes.