Peach Bourbon Smash

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If you’re looking for a nice invigorating drink, you’ve gotta try this Bourbon Smash Recipe. It’s a smooth and sweet cocktail that is great for parties, holidays and the perfect choice when you just want a drink to enjoy. 

What’s super exciting is that this whiskey mixed drink recipe only uses 5 ingredients plus your optional garnish. Shake it up in your handy cocktail shaker or make it right in the pitcher and you’ve got the perfect drink on the rocks in just a few mins. 

This is a good drink recipe to serve at get togethers and is simple enough to double or triple for some friends or family. Plus, it’s such an adaptable drink to suite everyone’s taste buds. You can easily swap out the fruit and garnish suggestions. If you love Southern Sweet Peach Tea, you’ll love this drink too.

Why You’ll Love This Sweet Mixed Drink

• Crowd pleaser and easy to duplicate for a crowd
• Adaptable – many ways to make this smash drink
• Can prep ahead 

What is a Bourbon Smash?

Typically, a smash cocktail is an iced mixed drink that spotlights delicious slices of fruit and complementary herbs. This beverage is very flexible depending on your tastes and what you have available.

As the name is a Bourbon Smash, it’s usually made with Bourbon, but can be made with your spirit of choice, like vodka, bourbon or whiskey. 

Traditionally, this drink is served in an Old Fashioned Glass on the rocks (over ice).

Peach Bourbon Smash 

 

Want to know how to make a Peach Bourbon Smash easily, then gather your ingredients ……… 

Cocktail Ingredients

• ripe juicy peach slices
• juice from half a lemon
• simple syrup
• bourbon
• ginger beer 
• fresh peach slices and mint for garnish

How To Make A Peach Bourbon Smash Drink

1. Add peach slices, lemon juice and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker or pitcher and muddle all the ingredients.
2. Add in the bourbon and mix.
3. Strain and pour the mixture into glasses filled with ice.
4. Top with ginger beer or club soda and garnish with peach slices and your herb of choice.

Drink Recipe Tips

• Choose your favorite Bourbon to make your drink.
• You can substitute the ginger beer for club soda; see variation ideas below.
• Feel free to garnish or swap out fruit choices with all sorts of different colorful fruits, depending on what you have on hand. Nectarines and Apricots work really well in this drink.
• You can sub out the simple syrup for other sweeteners too. 
• Chill or even freeze your garnishes so that the drink stays cold colder longer.

How Do You Make Simple Syrup?

1. You would mix equal quantities of granulated sugar and water in a pan.
2. Place the pan over a medium flame and stir occasionally until the sugar has dissolved.
3. Allow the syrup cool before decanting it into a container.
4. Keep the syrup in the fridge until required.

Bourbon Peach Smash Variations

Whilst this version is one of my favorite smash drink recipes – I have created many other versions based on what I have available and what guests might like. 

If you don’t have Ginger Beer or don’t care for it, no worries, you can always use other mixers, such as:

• club soda
• seltzer water
• champagne

And you can swap in whatever fresh fruit you have available for the peaches. Some fun fruit substitutions to try include:

• cherries
• apricots
• nectarines
• blueberries
• blackberries
• strawberries
• oranges
• limes

You can change out your herb garnishes as well. Others you might want to try are thyme, rosemary and basil. 

Interested in a different sweetener other than simple syrup? Try using honey, maple syrup or homemade sugar syrup. 

Prep Ahead and Storage

Prep Ahead – If you are going to make it ahead, then mix step 1 and 2 together but do not pour over ice or add in any garnishes until you are ready to serve.

Storage – You can store this Whiskey Cocktail in the fridge for at least 12 hours with no problem at all.

More Cocktail Recipes

Calling all cocktail lovers! Check out the selection of cocktail recipes below and let me know what you think.

• Lemon Drop Martini.
• Jalapeno Strawberry Margarita.
• Pomegranate Martini.
• Jamaican Rum Punch.

P.S. These sweet cocktails go down soooo easily, so make sure to drink responsibly and be mindful of your consumption.

Serving Suggestions

• Southern Salmon Croquettes.
• Shrimp Po Boy Sandwiches.
• Easy Pork Sliders.

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