It’s almost time for The Stranger's HIGHBALL WEEK! Brace yourself for 15 specially crafted cocktails, for only $5 each, starting next Monday!

Check out what your favorite neighborhood bars have in store for you for August 21-27 on our Highball Week calendar!

In the meantime, here's a few teaser cocktails from West Seattle and White Center:

New Luck Toy's Coconut Mojito

Recipe:

2 oz Light Rum
.5 oz Lime
1 slice Cucumber
4 Mint Leaves
2 oz Soda

Lightly muddle mint and cucumber. Top with ice, then add rum and lime. Shake and strain into a new glass with fresh ice. Top with soda and garnish with fresh mint.

The Westy's On Borrowed Thyme

Recipe:

1.5 oz Suntory Toki
1 oz Agave-Thyme Syrup
.25 oz Lemon Juice
2 dashes Barrel-Aged Bitters
Ginger Ale

Build all ingredients in an ice-filled Collins/Highball glass. Top with ginger ale and garnish with lemon peel & thyme sprig.

Zanzibar's Rat City Industrial Hogwash

Recipe:

1.5 oz Maker's Mark Bourbon
.5 oz Fernet
2 oz Foco Tamarind Juice
Quarter Lime
Goya Ginger Beer

Muddle lime with bourbon, add Fernet and tamarind. Stir, pour over ice and top with ginger beer. Garnish with lime in a Collins glass.

See the rest of the Highball Week drinks—including a map!—here.

Big ups to our cocktail-lovin’ pals at Toki Whisky for helping us bring you this one-of-a-kind boozetacular!