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It has been such a good week in my neck of the woods. I celebrated five years at my company, Beardwood&Co and my awesome co-workers threw me a very special happy hour celebration (have I mentioned that I somehow managed to talk my company into throwing a weekly happy hour?!). As if that’s not fun enough, we had our company fun day where we went skeet shooting and wine tasting, a pretty classy combination of activities if you ask me. I assure you we drank wine only after shooting the shotguns—an activity I quickly realized is not one of my strong suits.

In celebration of such a fun week, I whipped up this little watermelon number. I love a good watermelon beverage—boozy or not. Of course, since it’s happy hour I managed to slip not one but two spirits in it, light rum and ginger liqueur. Not only is this one of the prettiest cocktails to drink, it’s also mighty tasty and refreshing. So go ahead and find a reason to celebrate…

Cheers! To feeling lucky, trying new things and tasty beverages!

watermelon ginger refresher
makes 1 cocktail

3 oz puréed watermelon*
1 oz light rum
1 oz domaine de canton ginger liqeuer
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz simple syrup, optional (depending on the sweetness of your watermelon)

watermelon slice, to garnish

1
Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Give it a good shaker, about 10 seconds.

2
Strain into a glass and garnish with the watermelon slice. Enjoy!

*To puree watermelon, just cut it into chunks and purée in blender for about 10 seconds or until completely smooth.