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.
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
In a tall Collins glass, add mint, lemon juice and Tippleman's Ginger Honey Syrup; muddle. Add ice. Gently pour in Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka, then your favorite Blenheim Ginger Ale - hot, not-so-hot, or diet. Garnish with lemon wheel and mint sprig.
Sip and be refreshed.
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.
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
Add Six & Twenty 5-Grain Bourbon, juices, limeade and Bittermilk Charred Grapefruit Tonic (made with Bulls Bay Saltworks sea salt) to mixing tin full of ice. Shake passionately. Pour into rocks glass over ice. Garnish with basil leaf and peach slice. Enjoy this bracing drink.
