PREPARATION:

Purple Rain:

1. Muddle plums, add all other ingredients, shake 20 times, strain into glass, garnish with a lime wedge.

Lemon Verbina:

1. Dice up one third of a peach, muddle in a mixing glass. Add the other ingredients, shake and strain into a cocktail glass

Lemon Verbina Syrup:

1. Bring water and sugar to a boil. Turn down the heat and stir until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat, add lemon verbena leaves and let sit 48 hours. Remove the leaves and store.

Blackberry Shrub:

1. In a mixing glass, add leaves of one-inch sprig of rosemary and all ingredients except ginger beer. Shake with ice and strain into a tall glass filled with ice. Top with ginger beer. Garnish with a rosemary sprig with two blackberries speared onto stem.

Blackberry Syrup:

1. In a saucepan, boil water, sugar, and blackberries until reduced to 2 cups. Strain out the berries. (Reserve whole berries and freeze them for garnish.)
2. Put berry syrup
3. back into pan. Add 1 cup of balsamic vinegar and simmer on medium
4. low for 20 minutes. Cool and store in a squeeze bottle.