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Craft thirst-quenching, tasty cocktails using SC ingredients.
The Palmetto State is home to many local distilleries and breweries as well as renowned restaurants and bars that serve up amazing cocktails.
But sometimes, you just want to enjoy a drink from the comfort of your own home. Using ingredients from some of our most skilled local crafters, these recipes are as unique as they are delicious. Check them out below and make your own South Carolina-inspired cocktail.
Click on the highlighted ingredients to learn more about these local products, and remember to always imbibe responsibly.
Peninsula Tea
Peninsula Tea is made with locally distilled Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka.
1 oz of Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka ½ oz of Tippleman's Ginger Honey Syrup ½ oz of lemon juice 1 ½ oz of Blenheim Ginger Ale Lemon wheel garnish Mint sprig garnish
Parties, tailgates, weddings - oyster shooters are a hit at South Carolina events..
2 freshly shucked raw South Carolina oysters
½ oz pepper vodka
1 oz Bulrush Gin
1 oz Bloody Point Mixing Co. Bloody Mary Mix
2 cucumber slices
Seafood seasoning for the rim
Cut cucumber slices in half, rub around rims of each 2-oz shot glass. Dip half of each shot glass rim in a seafood salt seasoning like Charleston's Own. Drop a South Carolina oyster into each shot glass.
Shoot away and finish by eating the cucumber slice immediately after.
Upstate Revival
1 ½ oz of Six & Twenty 5-Grain Bourbon ½ oz of lime juice ½ oz of peach juice ½ oz of Bittermilk Charred Grapefruit Tonic 1 ½ oz of sparkling sweetened limeade Basil leaf garnish Fresh SC peaches, sliced for garnish
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