It might World Gin Day on the 12th June, but we like to drink these awesome gin cocktails all year round. These cocktails will get your weekend going!
This ledge was created for Winchester Distillery by the Twisted London crew, using their beautifully bottled Twisted Nose Gin. They use fresh watercress from the Hampshire countryside which offers a delicate sweetness and peppery kick to the London Dry gin base.
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Method: Add all ingredients (except soda unless you wanna make a mess) in a shaker & shake hard without ice. Then add ice & shake again. Strain the shaken cocktail carefully over the soda in a highball before garnishing with watercress sprig. Serve immediately. Get ready to rock a tasty white 'tash.
Imagery by Julie Skelton for Twisted Nose Gin
This Martini tastes just like those holidays you were meant to be going on this Summer. Porter's have cold-distilled botanicals of passion fruit, guava and white tea and added them to a classic, juniper-forward Old Tom style gin to make a fruity, juicy and tropical gin that we LOVE. Pairs well with a Hawaiian shirt.
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Method: Stir with ice, strain into a chilled martini glass (pop it in your freezer for about 10 minutes) and garnish with a discarded lemon coin. Simply perfect.
It ain't summer without a few torrential downpours and several glasses of Pimms, right? The Botanist have taken the classic British Summer-time drink, done away with the faff of chopped strawberries and sliced cucumber and pimped it up with their beautifully botanical Islay gin. You can save those strawbs for your next rained-off picnic.
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Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker and shake well. Fine strain into a cocktail glass then garnish with a mint leaf. Cheers!
Yeah yeah, you've had a G&T before. You've had hundreds of G&Ts before. But have you ever had a G&T that changes colour as you build it? Nah, didn't think so. This Pink Marmalade Gin starts majestically turns from a cool blue to a subtle rose pink as you add tonic. If you tell us your mouth doesn't drop when you see it, we'll call you a liar.
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Method: Fill a balloon glass with plenty of ice and pour in your gin. Get your camera ready. Pour over the tonic and watch the magic happen. Add your garnishes, take more photos, drink.
Sometimes making a cocktail is all about improv, baby! You just need a banging idea or helping hand. The chaps behind Mother Mercy Bar in Newcastle are offering themselves & their team up as your very own Lockdown Cocktail Fairy God-brothers & sisters. Their "Mother Knows Best" service will answer recipe questions, offer tips & spirits recs to those who need help with recipe inspo via WhatsApp, like this improvised Kitchen Cupboard Smash.
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Method: Build all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice. DONE and DONE. Smashing.