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Ginger Snap
From Mississippi River Distilling

1½ cups Mississippi River Rose Gin
2 cups premium lemonade
2 12-ounce bottles ginger beer
  Mix in a pitcher and pour over ice.

Fiery Sangria
1 cup orange peach mango juice
1 cup Iowa Distilling Prairie Fire hot cinnamon
whiskey
1 bottle dry red wine
Mango cubes (fresh or frozen)
  Combine the juice, whiskey, and wine in a large
pitcher. Stir gently. Add the fruit and allow to chill for 10
minutes. Serve.

Basic Citrus Sangria
½ cup brandy
¼ cup lemon juice

Cucumber Melon Sangria

⅓ cup frozen lemonade concentrate

Seedless cucumber, thinly sliced

⅓ cup orange juice

Honeydew melon, in cubes or balls

1 bottle dry red wine

Mint leaves, about 12

½ cup triple sec

1 ounce simple syrup

1 lemon

6 ounces gin

1 orange

1 bottle dry white wine

1 lime

8 ounces club soda

2 cups ginger ale

1 lime, thinly sliced

  At least 8 hours before time to serve, mix the first six
ingredients in a large pitcher. Slice the lemon, orange,
and lime, then add to the pitcher. Let the flavors meld in
the refrigerator. Add the ginger ale immediately before
serving.

  Add cucumber slices, mint leaves and melon cubes to
small punch bowl and drizzle with simple syrup. Pour
gin, wine, and club soda and stir well. Serve in white
wine or rocks glasses. Include cucumber, melon, and mint
in each glass and garnish with a lime wheel.

Berry Rosé Sangria
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup water
1 cup strawberries, halved
1 cup raspberries
1 cup blueberries
1 bottle dry rosé
¼ cup raspberry liqueur
¼ cup brandy
1 cup club soda

  Bring sugar and water to a simmer in a small
saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved (or use
¼ cup simple syrup). Let cool. Put berries into a
pitcher, drizzle with cooled syrup and let stand for
5 minutes. Add wine, liqueur, and brandy and stir
gently but thoroughly. Chill, covered, until ready
to serve. Before serving, add the club soda and
stir again.
  To serve, add ice cubes to glasses, pour the
sangria, add a few berries and a lime wheel, and
garnish with fresh mint.

Lime wheels
Extra berries for garnish
Fresh mint, for garnish

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