This IPL season, sip these cricket-inspired cocktails!

New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) It's that time of the year when cricket fanatics are glued to their television sets to catch all the action from the IPL (Indian Premier League). Whether you are calling your friends over or even decide to throw an IPL party, Nicholas Ord, USL Diageo Reserve brand ambassador, has curated some interesting cocktails for all you cricket fans.

Enjoy the match with some easy-to-make cocktails curated by Ord.

• Bowled Over: A cooling start to a spell at the crease with a perfectly served beverage for the Indian palate. Fresh grapes are muddled together with black salt and nimbu (lemon), a healthy splash of Johnnie Walker Red Label and a charge of fiery ginger beer.

  Glassware: Old fashioned

   

  Ingredients:
  60 ml Johnnie Walker Red Label
  2 grape bitters
  5 fresh grapes
  Pinch of black salt
  4 lemon wedges
  Top with ginger beer

  Method: Shake all ingredients with cubed ice and double strain into a chilled glass.

  Garnish with grapes tossed in black salt served on a toothpick.

• Super Sixers: Johnnie Walker Red Label, taken with homemade spiced salt of chaat and garam masala, chilly powder, cinnamon and pepper.

  Glassware: Shot glass

  Ingredients:
  60 ml Johnnie Walker Red Label
  15 gms salt
  Pinch of chilly powder
  12 pieces cinnamon
  12 pieces cloves
  10 gms pepper
  20 gms garam masala
  Pinch of chat masala

  Method: Roast the spices with garam masala, add all the remaining ingredients, toss and sieve.

  Garnish with orange wedges.

• A Big Sour LBW: For the big hits and the bigger wickets, shake up the stands with this blend of Johnnie Walker Red Label, cinnamon syrup and star anise with cloves.

  Glassware: Old fashioned

  Ingredients:
  60 ml Johnnie Walker Red Label
  20ml cinnamon syrup
  2 pieces star anise and cloves
  20 ml lime juice
  15 ml egg white

  Method: Dry shake, hard shake and strain.

• Capt’in's Cooler: This shaken spiced rum concoction of Johnnie Walker Red Label and Grand Marnier French orange liqueur goes along with a citrus-muddled handful of pureed pineapple and orange to bring the tropical sunshine to the pitch.

  Glassware: Tall glass

• Ingredients:
  60 ml Johnnie Walker Red Label
  15 ml Grand Marnier
  6 pieces of fresh pineapple diced
  10 ml lime juice
  10 ml egg white
  Fresh oranges diced

  Method: Shake all the ingredients, strain and pour into a chilled tall glass.

  Garnish with a pineapple slice.

  All Rounder Sangria: A delectable concoction of spiced rum, Red Label and Grand Marnier with Cabernet Sauvignon, fresh orange and lime citrus, stirred in a pitcher.

  Glassware: Wine glass

  Ingredients:
  30 ml Johnnie Walker Red
  100 ml Merlot Red Wine
  10 ml Grand Marnier
  20 ml Captain Morgan Spiced
  30 ml orange juice
  7 ml lime juice
  10 ml sugar syrup
  30 ml ginger ale

  Method: Stir all the ingredients and pour into a chilled glass.

  Garnish with apple slice, orange slice and seasonal berries.