Grow your own garnish for custom craft cocktails with Shimo!

One of the best things about Shimo is that you can use you can grow your own garnish to create one-of-a-kind custom craft cocktails. 

Recently, Shimo worked with mixologist Sunny Kim from the Canopy Hilton Washington DC to create some custom craft cocktails with herbs grown in the Shimo garden!  

Check out this cool video t watch Sunny in action. You can follow her at @hyo_sun_kimmy on Instagram.  

I want to share these custom craft cocktails with you, so that you can make them at home! 

If you are growing our Shimo Mustard Green kits, and let them grow to flower, you too can create one of these amazing cocktails. 

Arugula flower cocktail

1.5 ounces (oz) Mezcal Tequila 

0.5 oz pomegranate juice

0.25 simple syrup or agave syrup

0.5 oz orgeat* (almond cordial)

0.25 oz lemon juice

Muddle arugula flowers with simple syrup.

Add all ingredients into shaker and shake well. 

Double strain and pour into martini glass.

Garnish with arugula flower.

*orgeat cordial is made from Almond milk, sugar, cognac (2:1:0.5). Mix ingredients well, until very fine. 

 

Mustard Infused Flower Cocktail

1.5 oz. Gin (Infused with mustard flower over night)

0.5 oz. Cointreau

1.0 oz. Hibiscus syrup

0.5 oz. Lemon juice

Serve with over ice Garnish with long flower leaf straight into tall glass —-infused mustard flower Gin. Use only flowers soaked with gin over night and strain them to garnish. 

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