Easy Recipes + Ideas
Quick and Easy: sip neat or pour about an ounce on the rocks or add seltzer, tonic, or ginger beer
Feeling Fancy?: We like 1 or 1.5 oz (parentheses) shaken and served neat in a cordial glass.
Add complexity: Splash into any cocktail to brighten up whatever you’re drinking
Whiskey Fan? Treat After like a bourbon due to its woodsy and smoky notes. Use in a Manhattan, Sazerac, Mint Julep, Old Fashioned, etc.
Gin or Vermouth Fan? Use Before in any gin recipes to let the botanicals shine
The shrubs are ready-to-drink so just pour them on ice and enjoy
Food Pairings
Before is citrusy, floral, and bitter.
Pair with salty snacks, appetizers, and mild cheeses such as brie.
After is woodsy, earthy, and smoky.
Pair with dark chocolate, aged cheese, pecans, cashews, and hazelnuts.
Cocktails
(before) Breakfast Sour
from Bright Nights Social
1.5 oz (parentheses) Before
1.5 oz strong chilled Earl Grey tea (see below)
2 teaspoons orange marmalade (ideally made with regular sugar, not high fructose corn syrup)
0.25 oz aquafaba
Shake all ingredients with ice and double strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
(If you make this without the aquafaba it will still foam up from the kelp)
Honey Spritz
from Third Place Bar
1.5 oz (parentheses) After or Before
0.75 oz honey syrup
(pour 1/2 cup boiling water into 1/2 cup honey and let chill)
2 droppers orange bitters (optional)
recommended All the Bitters
5 oz club soda
Add (parentheses), honey syrup, and bitters to a wine glass and stir.
Fill glass with ice and top with club soda.
Garnish with an orange half moon.
(after) Mint Spritz
from Bright Nights Social
1.5 oz (parentheses) After
0.75 oz honey syrup (pour 1/2 cup boiling water into 1/2 cup honey and let chill)
10 mint leaves
5 oz club soda
Muddle mint and honey syrup in a shaker tin.
Add (parentheses) After.
Shake with ice and double-strain into a wine glass.
Fill glass with ice and top with club soda.
Garnish with a bunch of mint.
(NAtalian)
1.5 oz (parentheses) Before
1.5 oz Italian Aperitivo
(Abstinence Aperitifs recommended)
Pour Over Ice in a Wine Glass
Top with seltzer or sparkling wine, about 4 oz.