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For some people, the Fourth of July means grilling by the pool, long beach days and refreshing cocktails. For others, it’s like Christmas in July, with our favorite retailers offering some of the most impressive sales of the season.
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Adrianna Papell: 20 percent off from July 2nd to July 5th
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Best Buy: 40 percent off on select appliances until July 10th
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Chinese Laundry: 50 percent off your second pair, from July 1st to July 4th
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Fossil: Extra 30 percent off sale items from July 3rd to July 7th
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Frontgate: 25 percent off plus free shipping sitewide, including furniture from July 2nd to July 6th
Hunter Boots: Extra 10 percent off on July 3rd and July 4th, no code necessary
Hush Puppies: 60 percent off select styles until August 21
Jack Rogers: Up to 60 percent off select styles until July 4th
La Roche-Posay: 20 percent off + free My UV Patch with orders $50+ with code JULY19
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Macy’s: 20 percent off clearance with code FOURTH and $10 off $25 sale with code FOURTH25, exclusions apply
M. Gemi: Over 65 percent off a handful of men’s and women’s style
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Zulily: Up to nearly 80 percent off on select merchandise sitewide
Related: Cocktails to whip up this holiday 37 PHOTOSFourth of July cocktails we loveSee GalleryFourth of July cocktails we love
Red, White and Baileys (Created by Lo Bosworth)
Ingredients:
Step 1
- 2.5 oz. Baileys Almande
- 1 Cup Frozen Blueberries
Step 2
- 1 oz. Baileys Almande
- 2 Frozen Bananas
Step 3
- 1 oz. Baileys Almande
- 1 Cup Frozen Raspberries
- Blueberries for Top
Directions:
Blend each fruit separately with corresponding Baileys Almande in a food processor until smooth. Pour individual layers into a Collins glass to create red, white and blue color scheme. Top with blueberries.
Ideal Serving Glass:
Mason Jar
Red, White & Rosé
Ingredients:
- 1 Part Three Olives Rosé Vodka
- Top with Soda Water
- 2 Dash Peychaud’s Bitters
Directions:
Pour vodka into a glass with ice, top with club soda and a dash of bitters. Garnish with grapefruit twist.
The Adult Lemonade
Ingredients:
- 1 oz Deep Eddy Vodka
- 2 oz. Fresh Lemonade
- 1 oz. Club soda
- Lemon peel garnish
Red, White, and Berry Coconut Lemonade (Courtesy of Karly Gomez, A Simple Pantry)
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Smirnoff Red, White, and Berry Vodka
- 3 cups fresh lemonade
- 2 cups coconut water
- Fresh lemons, blueberries, and strawberries, for garnish
Directions:
In a large pitcher, combine the Smirnoff Vodka, lemonade, and coconut water and stir gently. Add fresh fruit as desired, then refrigerate for 1 hour to allow flavors to combine. Serve over ice and enjoy responsibly.
Red, White & Berry Limeade (Courtesy of Karly Gomez, A Simple Pantry)
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Smirnoff Red, White, & Berry or Smirnoff No. 21
- 1 cup black raspberry liqueur
- 3 cups limeade
Directions:
In a large pitcher, combine the Smirnoff, black raspberry liqueur, and limeade. Chill until cold, then serve over ice with blueberries, raspberries, and apple stars for a patriotic twist.
Red, White & Blue Boozy Slush (Courtesy of Taylor Bradford, Pink Heels Pink Truck)
Ingredients:
Blue Slush Layer:
- 2 cups ice
- 2 oz. Blue Curacao
- 1 cup homemade lemonade
White Slush Layer:
- 2 cups ice
- 2 oz. Smirnoff Red, White & Berry
- 1 cup homemade lemonade
Red Slush Layer:
- 1 ¼ cups strawberries, quartered
- 2 oz. Smirnoff Red, White & Berry vodka
- ¼ cup of homemade lemonade
Directions:
Blend each layer separately until smooth. Store in freezer until ready to build your cocktail. Pour each layer into a highball glass and serve immediately.
Aperol Spritzer
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Aperol
- 6 oz Sparkling Ice Lemon Lime
- Orange twist, for garnish
Directions:
In an ice-filled Collins glass, add Aperol and float with Sparkling Ice Lemon Lime. Garnish with an orange twist and serve.
Santa Margherita Blackberry Smash
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore DOCG
- Fresh blackberries
- Fresh basil leaves
- 1 oz gin
- ½ oz simple syrup
- ½ oz fresh lemon juice
Directions:
Find some fun glasses to use –- rocks glasses or stemless wine glasses look great. Muddle 6 blackberries and 3 basil leaves. Add gin, simple syrup, and lemon juice. Top off with Santa Margherita Prosecco Superiore DOCG. Garnish with an extra few blackberries and a sprig of basil.
Frozé Watermelon Granita
Ingredients:
- 1 bottle Santa Margherita Sparkling Rosé
- 1-quart watermelon-rosemary sorbet (store bought or recipe below)
- 2 cups diced, seedless watermelon
Directions:
Spoon a scoop of sorbet into the bottom of a chilled glass and top with a tablespoon or so of the watermelon cubes. Pour the Santa Margherita Sparkling Rosé over the sorbet and melon. Garnish with mint. Serve immediately with a silver spoon.
Option:
Purchase sorbet from a gourmet market instead of making your own.
To Make Watermelon Sorbet:
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3 sprigs of rosemary
- 3 pounds seedless watermelon cut into cubes (about 10 cups)
- ½ cup lime juic
- ¼ cup and 2 tablespoons tequila
Directions:
In a small saucepan bring the sugar, water, and rosemary to a boil. Remove it from the heat and let it cool to room temperature, then strain. Combine the rosemary syrup, watermelon, lime juice, and tequila in a blender and process until smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve and refrigerate overnight. Freeze the sorbet “granita-style” by putting it in the freezer and stirring every hour for five hours.
Red, White and Blue, Berry Mule
Ingredients:
- 2 oz berry Vodka (blueberry or raspberry)
- 6 oz Extra Spicy Brooklyn Crafted Ginger Beer Mini
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
Directions:
Muddle blueberries and blackberries in shaker. Add vodka and shake. Fill Moscow mule mug with ice. Pour in muddled berries and vodka and fill with Brooklyn Crafted (roughly 6oz). Garnish with blueberries and blackberries.
Red Lady
Ingredients:
- 2oz. The Botanist Gin
- 1oz. Cointreau
- 1oz. Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
- 6 strips Julienned Red Bell Pepper
- 3 drops Orange Bitters
Directions:
In a shaker, muddle the red bell pepper, then add all remaining ingredients. Shake without ice vigorously, then add ice and shake briskly. Double-strain into a coupe glass and garnish with a strip of julienned Red Bell Pepper.
Strawberry Mule (Created by Macchina’s Jason Madera)
Ingredients:
- 9 slices of strawberries
- Small bunch of mint
- 2 droppers Angostura bitters
- 2oz Belvedere Vodka
- 1/2 oz ginger liqueur
- 3/4 oz lime juice
Directions: Muddle strawberries and mint. Add Belvedere Vodka, Angostura bitters, ginger liqueur and lime juice. Add ice. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with a strawberry slice and a bouquet of mint
Tanqueray Strawberry Rhubarb Fizz
Ingredients:
- 2 cups fresh rhubarb, chopped
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 cups fresh strawberries, chopped
- 12 ounces Tanqueray Gin
- 24 ounces Fever Tree Tonic
- Fresh Strawberries (garnish)
- Lime (garnish)
Directions:
Over med-high heat, cook rhubarb, sugar, and water until soft. Add strawberries and continue to cook until completely cooked down (about 15 minutes), stirring constantly. Cool and strain. (Refrigerate until ready to use.) In a highball or tall glass, add ice, add 2 tablespoons of strawberry sauce, and top with 1½ ounces of Tanqueray Gin and 3 ounces of Fever Tree Tonic (per serving). Garnish with strawberries and lime. Enjoy!
Why Is That Ginger Blue? (Created by Moses Laboy)
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ oz Johnnie Walker Red Label
- ¾ oz Ginger/Butterfly Pea Flower Sweetener*
- ½ oz Fresh Lemon juice
- ¾ oz Fever tree seltzer
- Half drop of Chefs liquid royal blue
- Pansy flower for garnish
Directions:
Add all ingredients in shaker (except seltzer) Shake till cold and double strain over fresh ice. Top with soda. Pansy flower garnish. Enjoy!
Glassware: Rocks Glass
Ginger/Butterfly Pea Flower Sweetener:
1 quart water / 1 quart sugar, 6oz peeled and shredded ginger, 50 dried butterfly pea flowers. Cook the water, ginger and sugar till simmer, then add flowers, strut with a spoon. Let sit till cool. Strain and store in fridge till ready to use.
Monte Watermelon Sangria
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Amaro Montenegro
- 1 oz Riesling
- 2 oz Fresh Watermelon Juice
- ½ oz Lemon Juice
- ½ oz Lime Juice
- ½ oz Agave
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a high ball glasses. Garnish with orange slice and mint.
Clos du Bois “Clos Say Can You See”
Ingredients:
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups frozen or fresh strawberries
- 1 bottle of Clos du Bois Lightly Bubbled Chardonnay
- 2 cups sliced strawberries (fresh)
- 20 oz lime raspberry sparkling water
- 1 pint raspberries
Directions:
Add water and frozen strawberries to a saucepan. Bring to a boil, simmer 10 minutes and smash the strawberries. Simmer another 5 minutes. Reserve the liquid and remove any larger pieces of fruit that did not reduce when heated. Combine strawberry mixture, Lightly Bubbled Chardonnay, and sliced strawberries to a large pitcher. Let sit for at least one hour
Just before serving, add sparkling water and raspberries. Serve over ice
Layered Berry Ketel Cocktail
Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz Ketel One Vodka
- .25oz honey
- 1/2 cup mashed strawberries
- Ice
- 1/2 cup mashed blueberries
- Basil leaf, for garnish
Directions:
Mix the vodka and honey in a rocks glass. Top mixture with the mashed strawberries. Then add shaved or crushed and then add a layer of mashed blueberries. Garnish with basil leaf.
POM Blueberry Smash
Ingredients:
- 3/4 oz. POM Blueberry 100% juice
- 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon
- 1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice
- 3/4 oz. honey syrup (Mix two parts honey with one part hot water and stir. Cool.)
- Garnish: Mint sprig, one blueberry
Directions:
Shake all the ingredients well with ice. Serve over crushed ice. Garnish with a mint sprig and one blueberry.
Stars & Stripes
Ingredients:
- 1-1/2oz Breckenridge Vodka
- Blueberry jam ice cubes
- Sprite
- Sugar and strawberries for garnish
Directions:
Over medium heat, add 12oz blueberry jam, (you can muddle fresh blueberries in addition) 16oz water, 4oz sugar. Stir until dissolved. Let cool, then pour into ice molds. Add vodka to serving glass with jam ice cubes. Top with Sprite. Garnish with a strawberry and sugar rim.
Watermelon Paloma
Ingredients:
- 2 parts Hornitos® Plata Tequila
- 1 part watermelon juice
- ¾ part agave nectar
- ¾ part fresh lime juice
- 1 part seltzer
- Handful cilantro
- Pinch of sea salt
Directions:
Add all ingredients into a mixing glass, excluding seltzer. Shake well for approximately 5 seconds. Add seltzer and double strain into a Collins glass. Garnish with a watermelon wedge and rim the class with paprika sea salt.
Blueberry Mint Smash
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ parts Hornitos® Black Barrel® Tequila
- ½ part fresh lime juice
- ½ part simple syrup
- Blueberries
- Mint sprigs
Directions:
Lightly muddle 6-8 blueberries and 3-5 mint leaves in a shaker. Add remainder of ingredients into the shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a julep cup over crushed ice. Garnish with a mint sprig and blueberries.
Red, White & Berry Slushie
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Limeade, frozen
- 1 cup frozen raspberries
- 16 oz. Smirnoff ICE Red, White & Berry
- 6 oz. Smirnoff No. 21 Vodka
- 2 oz. orange liqueur
Directions:
Freeze 2 cups of limeade. In a blender, combine all the ingredients. Blend to desired consistency
Layered Red, White & Berry Lemonade
Ingredients:
- 6 oz. Smirnoff ICE Red, White & Berry
- 0.5 oz. Blue Curacao
- 0.5 oz. Smirnoff No. 21 Vodka
- 1 oz. Lemonade
- Splash Grenadine
Directions:
Fill a Mason Jar with Ice. Pour in the Smirnoff Ice. Add the vodka, blue curacao, and lemonade. Top with a splash of grenadine
BACARDÍ DAIQUIRI
Ingredients:
- 2 parts BACARDÍ Superior Rum
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 part freshly squeezed lime juice
Directions:
Place sugar and freshly pressed lime juice into a cocktail shaker and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Then pour in the BACARDÍ Superior rum and fill the shaker with half-cubed ice, followed by some half-crushed ice. Place the lid on the shaker and shake vigorously until thoroughly chilled. Finally, strain through a fine tea strainer into a chilled coupette.
BACARDÍ CUATRO MANZANA
Ingredients:
- 1 part BACARDÍ Añejo Cuatro rum
- 2 parts sparkling apple juice
- 2 lime wedges
Directions:
Squeeze and drop one lime wedge into a highball glass. Add ice and build other ingredients. Serve with one lime wedge.
Orchard Rosé Sangria
Ingredients:
- 2 bottles Angry Orchard Rose Cider
- 3 oz Gin
- 3 oz Lemon Juice
- 3 oz Simple Syrup (1 part sugar to 1 part water)
- 9 oz Basil Watermelon Juice (Add about 2 cups diced watermelon, and 5 to 6 basil leaves to a blender and blend until liquified)
Directions:
Build in a wine glass with ice and top with Cider. Garnish with an orange twist.
Kiwi Dreamsicle
Ingredients:
- 1.5 ounces Kiwi HI-CHEW Infused Dry Gin
- 2 ounces Cream Soda
- Seltzer
- 1 Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
Directions:
Measure the infused gin and cream soda into a parfait or pint glass. Fill 2/3 with seltzer, then top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Serve with a spoon and straw, and garnish with kiwis and Kiwi HI-CHEW Candies.
Garden Party
Ingredients:
- 8 oz rosé, chilled
- 4 oz Cherry Limeade Sparkling Ice
- ½ oz honey
- Sugar, for rim
- Edible flowers, for garnish
Directions:
In a sugar-rimmed Collins glass, combine rosé, Cherry Limeade Sparkling Ice, and honey. Garnish with edible flowers and serve.
Berry Punch Authentic Jose Cuervo Margarita
Bursting with blueberry sweetness, this ready-to-drink margarita is a blend of true to fruit natural blueberry flavors, crisp Bartlett pear, tangy lime and bright orange notes for an authentic and refreshing taste. Not only is it refreshing, it is also easy to enjoy with friends at any spring/summer soirée. Simply pour over ice, garnish with fresh berries, place a decorative straw and enjoy!
Tequila Colada
Ingredients:
- 2oz Jose Cuervo Especial Silver
- .75oz Coco Lopez
- .25oz Simple Suga
- .5oz Lime Juice
- Pineapple Wedge
- Mint Sprig
Directions:
Add all ingredients to tins and shake until chilled. Strain over cubed ice in a Rocks Glass.
Garnish: Pineapple Wedge and Mint Sprig
Royal American Negroni
Ingredients:
- 0.5 oz. Boodles Gin
- 0.5 oz. Sweet Vermouth
- 0.5 oz. Capitoline bitter orange liqueur
- 2 dashes Dillon’s Bitters
- Top with champagne
Directions:
Add all ingredients in a mixing glass except champagne with ice and stir until cold. Pour into a champagne flute and top with champagne.
Owney’s Mojito
Ingredients:
- 1.5 oz. Owney’s Rum
- 0.5 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
- 0.15 oz. Granulated Sugar
- 8 Fresh Mint Leaves
- Club Soda to top
- Garnish: Lime wedges & mint
Directions:
Muddle mint leaves and sugar in a shaker. Add all ingredients with ice, shake and pour into a tall glass. Top with soda water and serve.
Rosé Sangria
Ingredients:
- 2 oz. Hangar 1 Rosé Vodka
- 0.5 oz. Fresh Watermelon Juice
- 0.25 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
- Club Soda to top
- Garnish: Handful of Blueberries
Directions:
Combine vodka, watermelon juice, lime juice, and fruit in a shaker with ice. Shake well and pour into a stemless wine glass. Top with club soda.
Five Points Pavilion
Ingredients:
- 2 oz. 1800 Coconut
- 0.5 oz. Lemon Juice
- 0.5 oz. Honey
- 1 oz. Green Tea
Minibar Delivery’s Red, White, and Blue Vodka Lemonade
Ingredients:
- 9 cups of ice
- 1 cup of grenadine
- 1 cup of blue curaçao
- 1 cup of vodka
- 1 cup of lemonade
Directions:
Separately crush 3 cups of ice and grenadine, then 3 cups of ice and blue curaçao, then ice, vodka, and lemonade. Layer in that order and cheers to the birth of our great nation.
Plus One
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ parts Courvoisier V.S. Cognac
- 4 parts San Pellegrino® Pomegranate/Blood Orange
- Orange slice for garnish
Directions:
Pour cognac in a glass, add ice and top with San Pellegrino®. Garnish with an orange slice.
Bluecoat American Dry Gin All-American Gin & Tonic (By Philadelphia Distilling, Philadelphia, PA)
Ingredients:
- 2 oz. Bluecoat American Dry Gin
- 3-4 oz. Q Tonic Water
- Orange peel
Directions:
Add gin to a highball glass filled with ice. Add tonic water, stir to combine. Garnish glass with an orange twist
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