Mother’s Day Drinks For 2024

Mother’s Day is May 12, this year, so be ready for the brunch and dinner crowd with some festive, Mom-approved cocktails. Here are five recipes that are fairly simple to execute but will make a big impact. For more, check out the Mother’s Day drinks roundup from 2023.

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Pampl’ Up

Course Drinks

Keyword citrus, Cointreau, grapefruit soda, lemon

Ingredients

• ½ oz. Citrus syrup
• ¾ oz. Cointreau
• ½ oz. Lemon juice
• 1 ¼ oz. Three Cents grapefruit soda

Instructions

• Combine ingredients except soda in shaker.
• Add ice and shake until well chilled.
• Strain into a cocktail glass.
• Top with grapefruit soda.
• Garnish with lemon peel twist.

Notes

The mixologists at Cointreau created this recipe.

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Tough as a Mother

Course Drinks

Keyword Champagne, gin, lime

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Rose petal-infused gin*
• ¾ oz. The Perfect Purée El Corazon blend thawed
• ¼ oz. Lime juice
• 4 drops Orange blossom water
• Champagne

Instructions

• Add all ingredients except Champagne to a shaker.
• Shake with ice and strain into a flute.
• Top with Champagne.
• Garnish with a twisted lime peel.

Notes

*For Rose petal-infused gin
Infuse one bottle of gin with 3 tablespoons of food grade dried rose petals overnight. Strain the next day.

Theo Lentz, beverage director at Hummingbird in Raleigh, NC, created this recipe.

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Kalimera

Course Drinks

Keyword orange juice, Peach nectar, sparkling rosé, thyme

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Orange juice
• 1 oz. Peach nectar
• 4 oz. Sparkling rosé
• 1 Thyme sprig

Instructions

• Fill a wine glass with ice.
• Add juice, nectar and sparkling rosé.
• Gently stir.
• Garnish with thyme sprig.

Notes

Mixologists Thomas Mizuno-Moore created this recipe for Aba in Austin, TX.

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Theodora

Course Drinks

Keyword gin, Lavender honey, lemon juice, rose water

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Empress 1908 Indigo gin
• ¾ oz. Fresh lemon juice
• ¾ oz. Lavender honey syrup
• ¼ oz. Rose water

Instructions

• Rinse a chilled coupe glass with rose water.
• Add the gin, lemon and syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice.
• Shake vigorously and strain into the coupe.
• Garnish with a sprig of lavender or edible flower.

Notes

The mixologists at Victoria Distillers created this recipe.

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Hot Mama Jamma

Course Drinks

Keyword gin, ginger beer, lime, strawberry jam

Ingredients

• 2 oz. New Riff Kentucky Wild Gin
• ¾ oz. Lime juice
• 1 heaping tbsp. Strawberry jalapeno jam or regular strawberry jam
• 4 oz. Q hibiscus ginger beer

Instructions

• Add ingredients except ginger beer to a shaker.
• Shake well and strain into a Collins glass.
• Top with ginger beer.
• Garnish with a lime wheel.

Notes

The Aquifer team at New Riff Distilling in Newport, KY, created this recipe.