Best Minnesota Themed Cocktails

Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Add 3 ounces whiskey,1 ounce simple syrup, 1 ounce lime juice and 1 ounce lemon juice. Cover and shake until shaker becomes frosty and most of the ice has melted. Strain ingredients into cocktail glass filled with ice. Keeping with the Bootleg theme I choose to use a mason jar as the cocktail glass. Top off with lemon lime soda. Garnish with lemons or limes or both as desired!

Minnesota was a hot spot for smuggling in alcohol during the Prohibition Period. Canada was more than happy to share their wares by way of the border, the Great Lakes and many other creative modes of transportation.

Add 2 ounces cherry brandy, 2 ounces peach schnapps, 2 ounces vodka and 2 ounces sweet & sour to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and shake until cocktail shaker becomes frosty and most of the ice has melted. Strain ingredients into Collins glass filled with ice. Garnish with limes as desired.

This is my version of the Minnesota Slammer. There are a variety of recipes out there with various ingredients. One of the cocktails I shared for Best Alabama Themed Cocktails was an Alabama Slammer. That drink is usually served as a shot and I modified it to be a sipping cocktail. If I’m going to be drinking them I think it’s okay for changes. What do you think about changing a recipe? Shot or sipper?

It was a one eyed, one horned, flying, purple people eater – Sheb Wooley released the song in 1958. Ugh, now that song is stuck in my head. How about you? Sorry, not sorry! Growing up in Minnesota that song was everywhere. I wasn’t born when the song was released, but it was still going strong decades later when I lived there.

Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Add 2 ounces vodka, 2 ounces blue curacao,2 ounces cranberry juice and 1 ounce grenadine. Cover and shake until shaker becomes frosty and most of the ice has melted. Strain ingredients into martini glass. No garnish, just singing!

Add 2 ounces southern comfort, 2 ounces blueberry liqueur, 2 ounces sloe gin, 1 ounce blue curacao and 1 ounce lime juice into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and shake until shaker becomes frosty and most of the ice has melted. Strain ingredients into cocktail glass filled with ice. Garnish with limes as desired.

Scandinavian roots run deep in Minnesota, and so does the love of Vikings. There is still a heated debate if Vikings settled in Minnesota, but there is no debate regarding the founding of the Minnesota Vikings National Football Team in 1960. The Vikings are in Minnesota!