How to Drink

Cocktails & Recipes

June Bug – Juliet Barton Springs

Ingredients:

1 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1 oz Lo-Fi Amaro

1/2 oz Dolin Blanc Vermouth

1/2 oz 1:1 Simple Syrup

Recipe:

Stir everything in a shaker tin with ice 15 seconds until very cold, strain into a rocks glass with one big rock. Express a lemon peel over surface and rim of glass, garnish with peel or not. 

Juliet Italian Kitchen – Barton Springs, 1500 Barton Springs Rd., Austin, 78704

Wild Paloma – Juliet Georgetown

Ingredients:

2 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

2 oz Grapefruit Juice

1/2 oz Lemon Juice

1/2 oz Agave Syrup

3 Sage Leaves torn in shaker

3-5 drops saline solution (20g salt:80 ml water)

Recipe:

Shake everything in a shaker tin with ice 15 seconds until very cold, double-strain into a chilled coupe glass 1/2 rimmed with Sloan Seasonings Garlic Salt. Sage leaf garnish.   

Juliet Italian Kitchen – Georgetown, 701 S. Main St., Georgetown, 78626

That Orange Thing

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1 oz High Horse Triple Sec

1 oz Fresh Lime Juice

1 oz Mango Puree

Recipe:

Stir everything in a shaker tin with ice 15 seconds until very cold, strain into a glass rimmed with Sloan Seasonings OG Salt, that has been filled with ice. Garnish with fruit like lime or mango, if you like.   

Two to One WildBark Martini

Ingredients:

2 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

1 oz White Vermouth

2 dashes of Orange Bitters, Lemon Twist Garnish

Recipe:

Stir WildBark, White Vermouth, and Orange Bitters in your shaker tin with ice until very cold, about 15 seconds, then strain into chilled Martini Glass, Nick and Nora, or Coupe..

Express your lemon twist over the drink and pop it in or prop it on the side. Enjoy with Dorothy Parker quotes.  

Wild & Pink

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

2 oz Fever-Tree Sparkling Pink Grapefruit

Recipe:

Stir WildJune in shaker tin with ice until very cold, about 15 seconds, then strain into ice-filled glass.

Top up with the cold Fever-Tree Sparkling Pink Grapefruit Soda. 

West Texas Mule

Ingredients:

2 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

2 oz Ginger Beer

Serve over Ice, add mint garnish (optional)

Recipe:

Remove WildBark Gin from cooler or freezer, pour into ice filled glass.

Top up with the cold Fever-Tree Ginger beer.

Add mint garnish (optional)

West Texas Spring Water

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

3 small chunks of Cucumber

4 leaves of Mint

Sparkling Water

Recipe:

Muddle the cucumber and mint.

Add the WildJune Gin and Ice.

Top up glass with sparkling water.

Optional Garnish – Cucumber, Mint Sprig, Squeeze of lime.

WildHound

(Get your Bark on!)

Ingredients:

2.0 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

0.75 oz Grapefruit Juice

0.5 oz Simple Syrup

Recipe:

Shake well with ice, strain into a chilled glass.

Garnish with a sprig of rosemary.

Wild Watermelon

(Summertime Favorite)

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

2 Cubes of Fresh Watermelon

8 Mint Leaves

Splash of Simple Syrup (optional)

Sparkling Water

Recipe:

Muddle the mint and fresh watermelon. 

Add WildJune Gin & shake all ingredients with ice. 

Strain into a martini glass or serve in an ice-filled tumbler. 

Top off with Club Soda and garnish with mint

Texas Southside

(Yes, a Texas WildBark Gin Southside)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

1 oz fresh lime juice

0.5 oz Simple Syrup (1:1 sugar:H2O by weight)

8 mint leaves

Recipe:

Muddle the mint. 

Add rest of the ingredients and shake well with ice. 

Strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with mint. 

Wild Dirty Cherry

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

Tillen Farms Dark Cherry & Juice

Rambler Wild Cherry Sparkling Water

Recipe:

Combine ingredients in a shaker tin of ice.

Shake well, about 15 seconds. 

Strain into a chilled glass.

Top up with the (cold) Rambler Wild Cherry Sparkling Water 

Let’s Have a Wild Thyme

Ingredients:

2 oz WildBark West Texas Dry Gin

2 bar spoons Lemon Thyme simple syrup*

2 oz Grapefruit Sparkling Water

Recipe:

Shake with WildBark and the Lemon Thyme simple syrup with ice in a shaker tin

Strain into a chilled coupe

Garnish with fresh Lemon Thyme

*We find a large bunch of thyme flavors about 1L simple syrup

Wild Gimlet

Ingredients:

2 oz (60 ml) WildJune Western Style Gin

3/4 oz (22.5 ml) lime juice

3/4 oz (22.5 ml) simple syrup

Lemon Twist for up (pictured), Lime wheel garnish for rocks

Recipe:

Shake vigorously in a tin full of ice and serve in a coupe glass with a twist, or pour over fresh rocks with a lime wheel for garnish.

Wild Women Make Wild Drinks Second Place Winner (Austin 2024)

Wild Honey – Bridget Kimbell (Uptown Sports Club)

Ingredients:

0.75 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin

0.75 oz strawberry/yaupon honey syrup

0.75 oz lemon juice

0.75 oz Ramazzotti Aperitivo Rosato

Recipe

Add all ingredients to shaker, fill completely with ice and shake vigorously.

Double strain into coupe glass.

Wild Girl Gimlet

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1 oz Meyer Lemon Juice

0.5 oz Pink Elderflower Liqueur

1 dropper Rose Bitters

Recipe:

Shake all ingredients with ice, double strain into a Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a slice of Meyer Lemon and a Rosebud. Credit: Molly Harris

Wild Women Make Wild Drinks First Place Winner

(Austin 2024)

Oaxacan Gin Fizz – Rochelle Piña (Fairmont Austin)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildBark West TX Dry Gin

0.25 oz Chareau Aloe Liqueur

0.75 oz clarified lime juice

0.75 oz simple syrup

Top with Top Chico and Mezcal cucumber foam

Recipe:

Shake and strain the WildBark Gin, Chareau,

and clarified lime juice with ice,

strain into a Collins glass, and top with Topo Chico.

Ice with fresh crushed ice.

Top with Mezcal foam.

Garnish with a dehydrated lime wheel,

and banana leaf wrap in glass.

WildJune Pegu Club Cocktail

Ingredients:

1½ oz. WildJune gin (45 ml)
½ oz. Cointreau (15 ml)
¾ oz. fresh lime juice (20 ml)
2 dashes Angostura bitters (2 ml)

Recipe:

Tools: juicer, shaker, strainer. Glass: cocktail (Nick and Nora). Looks nice in a Martini glass, also.

Shake all the ingredients with ice, then strain into a chilled glass.

WildBark Gin Paloma

Ingredients:

.75 oz lime (20 ml),

.5 oz simple syrup (2:1, rich) (15 ml),

1.5 oz WildBark gin (45 ml)

Splash of grapefruit juice (10 ml) / 2 oz soda to top (55 ml).

2 dashes Angostura orange bitters on top. Lime wheel garnish

Recipe:

10 second shake ingredients up to soda with ice, Double strain – to pint glass, top with soda and dashes of bitters. Garnish with lime wheel, or grapefruit (pictured)

Wild Women Make Wild Drinks Third Place Tie

(Austin 2024)

Rain Lily – Candice Dublin (Small Victory)

Ingredients:

1 egg white

0.75 oz fresh lemon juice

0.5 oz simple syrup

0.5 oz elderflower liqueur

0.5 oz Campari

1.0 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

Top with sparkling water

Recipe

Add all ingredients except sparkling water to shaking tin. Shake without ice for a few seconds (dry shake), then add ice and shake again. Strain into a fizz glass and top with sparkling water.

Villa de Varda Negroni

Whoa – the fine folks down at It’s Italian Cucina are taking the Negroni to all new places, and we’re not talking cheesy spaghetti westerns. Strap on your chaps and prepare to giddy up with WildBark West Texas Dry Gin, Campari, Carpano Antica, chamomile liqueur and rose water! What?!? Gimme, gimme.

Ingredients:

WildBark West Texas Dry Gin
Campari
Carpano Antica Vermouth
Villa de Varda Chamomile
Rose Water

Build:

Hitch up your horsies and saunter on down south of the river to get a taste of this rare treat:
It’s Italian Cucina, 1500 South Lamar, #110, Austin 78704

Free Range Nurse (Delia Flores)

Ingredients:

2 parts WildJune Western Style Gin 

(WildBark West TX Dry Gin for more herbal style)

1 part Free Range Nurse Syrup (below)

Top with seltzer

Syrup Ingredients:

1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, About 1/4 of a pear, sliced 

Two sprigs fresh rosemary, 1 cinnamon stick

Bring to a simmer and then let steep for at least 30 minutes.

Reserve the pear slices to use as garnish.

Recipe:

Shake WildJune Western Style Gin & syrup in an ice filled shaker,

strain into a rocks glass with fresh rocks,

top with seltzer after that.

Garnish with a slice of pear from the syrup, and a sprig of rosemary or pine.

Wild Women Make Wild Drinks Third Place Tie

(Austin 2024)

(Church of the) Poison Mind –

Eva Suter (L’Oca d’Oro)

Ingredients:

1.5 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

0.5 oz Limoncello

0.5 oz Amaro Ramazzotti

Recipe

Build in tin, fill completely with ice and shake vigorously.

Double strain into rocks glass. Fill with ice. Garnish with toasted star anise.

Wild Rose Hip Martini

Ingredients:

2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin

1 oz Wild Rose Hip Simple Syrup

Serve up with fresh rose hips as garnish

Recipe:

Forage for Wild Rose Hips (preferably after the first snow)

Make Wild Rose Hip Simple Syrup (preferably using Monk Fruit instead of sugar; straining off the seeds and skins of the rose hips

Mix 2 oz WildJune Western Style Gin + 1 oz Wild Rose Hip Simple Syrup in a shaker with ice & serve in a chilled martini glass with fresh rose hips as a garnish. Enjoy!

HollyHock Martini

(created by Audrey Torres)

Ingredients:

2.5 oz WildJune Western Style GIn

2.5 oz Prosecco

Lemon Juice (squeeze a half lemon)

Dash of Simple Syrup

Recipe:

Stir all ingredients with Ice,

Strain and Serve in a Martini Glass with a Lemon Twist.

Strawberry Negroni

The barkeeps at El Raval are upgrading the classic bittersweet balance of a classic Negroni with the premium complexity of WildJune Western Style Gin, a splash of sweet-tart strawberry, and a hint of citrus from an orange wheel – can you take a classic cocktail up a notch? Oh, yes. Yes you can.

Ingredients:

1 oz (30 ml) WildJune Western Style Gin
1 oz (30 ml) Campari
1 oz (30 ml) Sweet Red Vermouth
1 oz (30 ml) Fresh Pureed Strawberry
Orange Wheel garnish

Build:

Add all ingredients to a shaker full of ice, give it a good stir and a quick shake, and double strain into a coupe glass or pour over fresh rocks.
Visit El Raval, 1500 South Lamar, #115, ATX 78704