It’s Happy Hour! Drink recipes for the 2020 Virtual Placer Conservator

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2016 Dogface Cabernet Sauvignon (Lone Buffalo Vineyards)

The second special jbrand collaboration with Placer Land Trust, inspired by the California Dogface Butterfly (our State Insect) – quite rare due to its limited habitat. This elusive butterfly is fortuitously found on Placer Land Trust’s Shutamul and Laursen Bear River Preserves – 400 acres of permanently protected local wilderness along the Bear River that plays host to the largest known number of breeding California Dogface Butterfly in the Sierra Nevada. 20% of the proceeds from each bottle goes directly to Placer Land Trust to permanently protect natural and agricultrual lands in Placer County. www.lonebuffalovineyards.com/our-wines

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Wildlands Whiskey

Ingredients:

From our friends at Sonoma Land Trust

• 1.5 ounces rye whiskey
• 1 ounce fresh lemon juice
• ¾ ounce simple syrup
• ½ egg white (optional)
• 4 rosemary sprigs (retain one for garnish)
• aromatic bitters

Directions:

1. Pound 3 rosemary sprigs with knife handle or meat tenderizer to release fragrance.
2. Combine rye whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup, egg white and 1 rosemary sprig in cocktail shaker and dry shake for 10 seconds.
3. Add ice and shake vigorously for an additional 30 seconds.
4. Strain into a chilled old-fashioned or rocks glass with ice.
5. Garnish with remaining rosemary sprig and 2–3 drops of aromatic bitters.

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River’s Edge Spritzer

From our friends at Sonoma Land Trust

Ingredients:

• 5 ounces rosé
• Tonic water with elderflower
• Half cup of fresh blackberries and raspberries

Directions:

1. Muddle a quarter cup of the berries, then add to a white wine or rosé glass.
2. Fill a third of the glass with tonic water.
3. Add five ounces of rosé.

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Wild Blackberry Smash

Courtesy of Karen Killebrew

Ingredients:

• 3/4 c fresh lime juice (from about 5 limes), plus 1 lime, sliced
• 3/4 c blackberry jam
• 2 c gin
• 1 (12-ounce) can club soda
• 1 c mint leaves

Directions

1. Whisk together lime juice and blackberry jam in a pitcher until dissolved.
2. Stir in gin, club soda, mint, and sliced lime.
3. Serve over ice.

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Foothill Fizz

Courtesy of Karen Killebrew

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1 1/4 oz simple syrup
• 2 oz milk, half & half, or cream
• 1 small egg white
• 2 dash fleurs d’orange orange flower water
• 1 oz club soda (more or less to taste)

Directions:

1. Place all of the ingredients except the club soda into a cocktail shaker.
2. Dry shake.
3. Fill the shaker with ice.
4. Shake vigorously again (more than normal to ensure the egg and cream are well mixed).
5. Strain into a chilled highball glass.
6. Top with club soda.

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“Owl’ed” Fashioned

Courtesy of PLT Land Manager Jim McBride

1/2 tsp honey
2.5 oz bourbon or rye
Dash of bitters

Build in rocks glass with a large ice cube. Stir 2-3 times.
Squeeze an orange peel over and rub on rim of glass.
Enjoy!

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The 2020 Virtual Placer Conservator Drinking Game!

If you’re watching from home, why not join in some fun with your beverage of choice? Drink when:

• Someone says…
  • Land
  • Protect (protected, protecting)
  • Sallysue
  • Wildlife
  • Placer Land Trust
  • Gold Country Wildlife Rescue

• You see…  
  • A wild animal
  • Water
  • Trees (just kidding, don’t do that!)

Disclaimer: Placer Land Trust does not know the number of times the above mentioned words or items will appear during this virtual event. Please drink responsibly.