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Cool Off With Custom Fourth of July Cocktails

Clique Vodka's custom recipes for sizzling Fourth of July cocktails.

It's going to be a hot Fourth of July, and Clique Vodka is recommending some of its custom cocktails to cool off and enjoy the holiday.

SparQ-ler

3/4 oz Clique vodka
1 red jello shot
1 blue jello shot
4 oz Sparkling wine
To make the jello shots, prepare according to instructions, using 3/4 cup of Clique Vodka, shaken very well, in place of cold water. When they have set, break up one shot of each color with a fork into little bits, and spoon a few pieces into a flute. Add Clique Vodka, and sparkling wine.

*Don’t forget to make a bunch of jello shots! They are super cheap and sell fas

M-80
½ oz Clique Vodka
¼ oz blue curacao
Splash sours mix
Splash grenadine
Shake Clique Vodka, curacao, and sours in a cocktail tin with ice, and strain into a shooter glass.
Slowly add the grenadine so it sinks to the bottom.

*This recipe can also be modified to a cocktail by adding Clique Vodka, curacao, and sours to an ice filled rocks glass, stirring, and adding the grenadine.

Red, Blue & Q
1/4 oz grenadine
1/2 oz Clique Vodka
1/4 oz blue curacao
Pour the grenadine directly into a shot glass. Then use the back of a bar spoon to dribble the Clique Vodka slowly on top so that it layers on top. You may not be able to tell if you have done it correctly until you do the same with the blue curacao, which will sink past the vodka, on top of the grenadine.

Red, White and Q
1 1/4 oz Clique Vodka
3 oz cranberry juice
1 oz lemon lime soda
Add all ingredients to a rocks glass with ice and stir.

Rocket Launcher
1 ¼ oz Clique Vodka
2 oz redbull
¼ oz grenadine
Pour Clique Vodka and redbull into an ice filled rocks glass. Slowly add the grenadine down the side of the glass so that it layers on the bottom.
*This recipe can also be modified shooter by chilling the Clique Vodka, adding chilled red bull, and then slowly adding the grenadine.

C4
1 ¼ oz Clique Vodka
1/2 oz blue curacao
1 small splash lemon lime soda
1 oz sours mix
1 oz orange juice
Add contents over ice very slowly, in order. Use the soda to create a liquid barrier between the curacao and sours. Top carefully with orange juice to create 3 different colors. Garnish with a cherry.

The Expedition
1 1/4 oz Clique Vodka
1/2 oz orange spice syrup*
4 oz cranberry juice
Add all ingredients to an ice filled rocks glass and stir.
*Simmer: zest of 2 oranges, a star anise pod, cinnamon stick, 5 cloves, a loosely crushed nutmeg pod, a black cardamom pod, and 10 allspice berries in 1 L of water about an hour. Turn off the heat and steep a box of chai tea bags in the water for 5 minutes and strain. Measure the amount of water you have left and dissolve the same amount of sugar in it to form a syrup. Add the juice
of the 2 oranges, and let cool.

FirecraQer
1 oz Clique Vodka
3 shakes Tabasco or hot sauce
¼ oz lime juice
Shake all ingredients over ice until well

Russian Candle
¾ oz Clique Vodka
¼ watermelon schnapps
¼ oz blue curacao
3 oz lemon lime soda
Add Clique Vodka, watermelon schnapps, and soda to an ice filled rocks glass, and stir. Slowly pour the blue curacao down the inside of the glass so that it layers on the bottom.

*This recipe can be modified to a shooter by shaking the Clique Vodka and schnapps over ice, straining into a shot glass, and slowly adding the curacao.

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