What is a camping trip without a delicious summer libation, especially to Après a long bike ride or hike? Billie Keithley created 11 cocktails perfect for your next summer backcountry experience. Leave the Kool-Aid drink mix, Country Time Lemonade powder, and Crystal Light squeeze bottles at home. Instead, think ‘elevated cocktail experience’.
So, pack your cooler and make these 11 cocktails on your next camping trip. Get your favorite Breckenridge spirits delivered to your door.
Tips for packing your booze and ingredients
How to pack your cocktails ingredients…efficiently:
- Leave the heavy glass bottles behind and use a bladder or a light weight water bottle to transport your booze. Using a bladder allows you to collapse it and save room in your pack for the haul out. Note, one 750 bottle of booze typically serves 17 cocktails. Keep that in mind when you are trying to gauge how much to bring.
- No need to pack extra ingredients just for a cocktail. Reuse your snacks and tea bags. Use your orange peels for an Old Fashioned. Save some berries from your trail mix and add that as a delicious garnish. Reuse a tea bag more than once.
- Go mini. Check out Strongwater Herbal Bitters If you can’t find one, take a small baggy of bitters.
- Use the environment. Melt and boil snow for extra water. Need ice? Get packing….snowballs, that is. If you can’t leave them outside overnight, pack the snowballs tight, otherwise they will melt quicker once dropped into your cocktail. Snow is the perfect chilling method.
- Pack items with multi-use (Emergen-C, coffee, bacon, ciders and teas).
- Don’t over pack ingredients and think small. You should be able to pack everything in one small baggy.
Celestial Old Fashioned
Celestial Old Fashioned
50 ml Breckenridge Bourbon (Buy Now)
1 Honey stick
1 Dropper of walnut Strongwater bitters
Juice of half a lemon
Add ingredients to camp mug & incorporate with ice.
Garnish: Cinnamon stick
Sunrise
Sunrise
50 ml Breckenridge Gin (Buy Now)
2 oz Water
1 Packet of raw sugar
1 Lemon squeezed & added
1 Sliced lime
3 Sliced strawberries
Add all ingredients to reusable pouch. Seal & shake up with ice cubes.
Bonus: Clip to a carabiner on your backpack for easy access!
Source of the River
Source of the River
50 ml Breckenridge Vodka (Buy Now)
1 Packet Honey Stinger Rapid hydration packet
8 oz Water
1 Slice of lemon
Incorporate all ingredients with ice.
Garnish: mint leaves
GIVE ME S’MORES
One of our favorites, the Give Me S’mores makes adulting fun. Build a S’more and dip it in this super easy boozy hot chocolate.
Give Me S’mores
1 oz Breckenridge Bourbon (Buy Now)
Top with hot cocoa
Pair with a campfire S’more
CAMPFIRE MULE
1-1/2 oz Breckenridge Spiced Rum (Buy Now)
1/2 oz maple syrup
Top with ginger beer
Squeeze of a quarter lime
Garnish: bacon from your camping breakfast
CAMP SHANDY-LA
Our play on a Summer Shandy. We paired our Breck Vodka with a refreshing brew from Broken Compass Brewery. Add fresh lemon to brighten this crisp cocktail.
Camp Shandy-La
1 oz Breckenridge Vodka (Buy Now)
Broken Compass Westy Grapefruit IPA or your favorite citrus IPA
Splash of lemonade
Garnish: lemon wheel
SLEEPING UNDER THE STARS
1-1/2 oz Breckenridge Pear Vodka (Buy Now)
6 oz Chamomile tea
1/2 oz honey
Juice of half a lemon
APPLE JACKS SNACK PACK
Don’t knock this before you try it. Yes, adding bourbon to your cereal isn’t a bad idea. It is genius! Small boxes of cereal are easy to pack, have a bowl built right in and make for the perfect breakfast or afternoon snack around the campfire.
Apple Jacks Snack Pack
1 oz Breckenridge Bourbon (Buy Now)
Mini box of Apple Jacks. Cut open. Add milk.
BOTA BAG BEES KNEES (makes 3)
6 oz Breckenridge Gin (Buy Now)
1-1/2 oz lemon juice
2 -1/4 oz honey simple
3 dashes orange bitters
Add all ingredients to a Bota bag
When ready to imbibe, add ice and shake it all up. If lemon is available, add a zest.
Garnish: Honey Stinger waffle
MOUNTAIN HIGHBALL IN A CAN
1 oz Breckenridge Vodka (Buy Now)
Squeeze of lime juice
2 dashes bitters (minis available)
Add top three ingredients to a can of soda water of choice
