Whether you’ve been working multiple jobs this year or have been coasting on stimulus checks and your parents’ good will, filing your tax returns this year is sure to be a different experience than you’ve ever seen before. After finishing something that stressful and getting (hopefully!) a nice refund, you definitely earned a nice drink to unwind. With that in mind, here are 3 fiscally themed drinks specially designed to make sure you won’t even wake up April 16th:

1. The Money Mojito

This simple cocktail is symbolic of a fruitful year. With a tasteful combination of green absinthe and a gold-tinted lemon wheel to garnish (get it? The money colors), this drink will be sure to lift your spirits as much as that $53 direct deposit you somehow managed to wrangle out of the IRS’s grimy little hands.

  1. 3 mint leaves
  2. ½ oz. simple syrup
  3. 2 oz. absinthe
  4. ¾ oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
  5. Club soda, to top
  6. Garnishes: mint sprig, lemon wheel

2. Hot Commodities

This fun drink is sure to make you the talk of your now slightly wealthier friend group: What better way to show off your newly earned coins than a drink that has literal jalapeno coins both inside and out of the drink! With this incredibly spicy flex in hand, all your friends will be able to tell that the time you spent pulling your hair and crying while your dad explained what a standard deduction is over the phone was really worth it.

  1. 1 lime wedge
  2. 2 jalapeno coins, seeds removed
  3. 2 oz. blanco tequila
  4. ½ oz. orange liqueur
  5. 1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
  6. ½ oz. agave syrup
  7. Garnishes: jalapeno coins, green sprinkles for rim

3. I actually Owed Money 🙁

It happens to the best of us, kid. Sometimes even though you did everything right, the IRS sometimes just decides to take a little bit of an extra cut. It sucks that they decided to leech your already tight funds while massive companies don’t even owe them a cent, but that’s no reason you can’t at least try to drink your pain away!

  1. 10 oz. Kamchatka Vodka

This has been a stressful time for just about everybody, fiscally and otherwise. Hopefully these cocktails let you and your buddies get absolutely trashed after a day filling out the least intuitive paperwork you’ve ever seen. After all, a bad tax year doesn’t matter too much if you don’t remember it, right?

Written by Zach Levy, Vice President