Cocktail Menu: Seasonal Drinks at Walnut Creek Yacht Club, California
July 04, 2011
Here are the new seasonal drinks from the Walnut Creek Yacht Club in landlocked Walnut Creek, California. I love that July is considered "early summer" here.
Early-Summer Cocktails
from the summer farmers market to your cocktail glass
Andalusia
House-made roasted red pepper syrup; Amontillado Sherry; cucumber-infused vodka; fresh lemon juice. Served "up" in a chilled cocktail glass with smoked paprika, crushed almonds, and sea salt on the rim. Garnished with a skewer of cherry tomato, cucumber, and cocktail onion.
Plenty of Plums, Plenty of Thyme
House-made plum and thyme syrup; Licor 43; Marie Duffau Napoleon Bas Armagnac; spiced plum bitters; fresh lemon juice; egg white. Served "up" with a sprig of fresh thyme
Drink Your Peach!
Fresh peach muddled with local honey syrup; peach bitters; fresh lemon juice; Bourbon whiskey; topped off with Pranqster Belgian-style Golden Ale. Garnished with a sprig of fresh rosemary and a slice of fresh peach. Served tall over ice
Sailor's Choice
rum, rhum agricole, pisco & cachaca cocktails
The Expat
Fresh cucumber muddled in house-made pineapple syrup; Sagatiba Pura Cachaca; Yellow Chartreuse and St. Germain Elderflower Liqueurs; fresh lime juice; topped off with chilled Champagne. Served tall over ice & garnished with a sprig of fresh mint
Sweet Heat
Spiced mango puree; a dash of our own house-made Caribbean Fire Habanero Sauce; Batiste Rhum Agricole Blanc; Batavia Arrack; fresh lime juice. Served "up" with a sprig of fresh cilantro & lime wheel
Here in the Bay Area, we get summer weather often times well into late September/early October, so we roll with that! This allows us to do some summer drinks late June through July, and then switch it up and feature some new drinks August through September that still fit with that great "summer" weather we usually continue to have.
Cheers!
Jay
Posted by: Jay Crabb | July 04, 2011 at 04:15 PM
Walnut Creek Yacht Club just won the Best Martini in the East Bay competition, and Jay was named Best Bartender in Diablo Magazine's Best East Bay issue. And I can attest that it is just now feeling like summer, and it will last (unfortunately, I hate anything above 75 degrees) well into September/October
Posted by: East Bay Burbs | July 05, 2011 at 01:07 PM