The Ocean Spray ‘Mixing Amazing’ experience has introduced a new twist on summer cocktails. Guests who attended the exclusive event Thursday last, at the Pool Deck, Courtyard by Marriott, enjoyed a new taste experience, featuring Ocean Spray-inspired cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The bold among them were drafted by noted mixologist, St Aublyn ‘Captain’ Kidd, who gave them a chance to mix it up themselves under his expert guidance.

Ocean Spray also introduced The Most Beautiful Harvest, a virtual reality experience viewed through Oculus Rift technology, which details a real cranberry harvest showing how the little red berry makes its way from the bog — areas of vast wetlands where cranberries are grown for wet-harvesting — to consumers around the globe.

Thursday Life shares the fun with you — it’s your turn now to mix it up — and invites you to enjoy a taste of six refreshing Ocean Spray summer cocktails.

Madras

Ingredients:

3 ozs Ocean Spray® Cranberry Juice Cocktail, chilled

1 1/2 ozs orange juice, chilled

1 1/2 ozs vodka

Method:

Pour into a tall glass filled with ice.

Makes 1 serving.

Champagne and Cranberry Juice Sparkling Punch

Ingredients:

1 (750 ml) bottle

Champagne

1 cup Ocean Spray®

Cranberry Juice Cocktail

1/2 cup Limoncello liqueur

Method:

Combine Champagne,

cranberry juice, and

limoncello in a large

pitcher or punch bowl; stir

gently.

To serve: pour or ladle

punch into tall glasses or

Champagne flutes. Garnish

as desired.

Makes 4 1/2 cups punch.

Holiday Celebration Punch

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Ocean Spray® Ruby Red

Grapefruit Juice Drink, chilled

2 cups Ocean Spray®

CranoRaspberry® Raspberry

Cranberry Juice Drink, chilled

2 cups red wine

1 cup vodka

1/4 cup spiced rum

1/2 cup green or red grapes,

sliced in half

1 lemon, sliced

1 lime, sliced

1 orange, sliced

1 apple, sliced

1 cup sparkling water or club

soda

Method:

Combine the first five ingredients

in a punch bowl.

Add fruit.

Add sparkling water just before

serving.

Makes approximately 10 fiveounce

servings.

Ruby Red Citrus Sparkler

Ingredients:

1 clementine, washed and cut

into 1/4-inch slices

1 grapefruit, washed and cut into

1/4-inch slices

1 lime, washed and cut into

1/4-inch slices

1 lemon, washed and cut into

1/4-inch slices

1 orange, washed and cut into

1/4-inch slices

3/4 cup Ocean Spray® Ruby Red

Grapefruit Juice Drink

1/4 cup orange-flavoured liqueur

or orange juice

3/4 cup raspberries, washed and

drained

1 750-ml bottle sparkling white

wine or citrus-flavoured sparkling

water

Method:

Combine all citrus fruit slices in

large glass pitcher.

Add ruby red grapefruit juice

drink and liqueur or juice.

Stir gently; cover.

Refrigerate at least 3 hours.

Add raspberries to fruit mixture

in pitcher.

Stir in wine or sparkling water.

To serve, pour about 6 ounces

sangria in each glass.

Garnish with fruit from pitcher.

Makes 6 to 8 servings.

White Cranberry Vodka Cocktail

Ingredients:

5 ozs Ocean Spray® White

Cranberry Juice Drink

2 ozs vodka

2 ozs ginger ale

1 tsp lemon juice

Lemon twist, garnish

Method:

Combine all ingredients except

garnish in a tall glass with ice.

Garnish with lemon twist.

Makes 1 serving.

Tropical Splash

Ingredients:

Crushed ice

2 ozs regular or Diet Ocean Spray® CranoMango™

Cranberry Mango Juice Drink

1 oz pineapple juice

1 oz dark or spiced rum

Orange peel

Method:

Fill old-fashioned glass with crushed ice.

Add juices and rum; stir 20 seconds to combine

ingredients.

Peel orange over cocktail.

Rub rim of glass with peel; add peel to drink.

Makes 1 serving.