Gin Cocktails

  • Gin & Tonic

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    Gin & Tonic

    There are various types of gin with notable difference in the way it’s made & tastes. This depends on the stills, pot or column, used to make these gins & the types of botanicals & spices infused
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    Types of gin include
    Distilled gin, London Gin, Compound Gin, Plymouth Gin, Old Tom Gin, Sloe Gin, Juniper flavoured spirit  drinks
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    Tanqueray London dry gin –  In essence no flavouring can be added after distillation and use of artificial flavouring is not permitted. Unlike distilled gin where it’s permitted to add further flavorings both natural & artificial
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    Tanqueray has subtle influences coming from juniper berries, coriander, angelica, cassia. The herbs used in distillation process gives this gin a clear texture and an unsweetened taste
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    Here is my Gin & Tonic this rainy evening

    Ingredients

    Gin – 60 ml @tanqueraygin
    Tonic – 60 ml @schweppes
    Fresh Basil leaves
    Lemon wedges
    Blueberries
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    Preparation Method Fill the rocks glass with ice.  Pour in the Gin. Release some folded fresh basil leaves. Top  it up with tonic water. Add some lemon wedges & some blueberries. Garnish with fresh basil leaves.
    Sip as you enjoy the rain drops 

    Cheers!

  • Gimlet

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    Gimlet

    A light green, lime-heavy cocktail with a rich naval history. Gimlet is a small tool used to tap the barrels of spirits which were carried on British navy ships & this could be the origin of drink name
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    Legend has it that during 1700s, sailors  were prescribed consumption of citrus fruit juice to prevent scurvy. So during their voyage they consumed it and over the period 15% rum was added to it for preserving it on long journeys. Later on Lauchiln Rose, owner of a shipyard in Leith, Scotland, patented a process of preserving the fruit juice with sugar instead of alcohol, & this was the origin of famous Rose’s Lime Cordial. Tale carries on that the officers while sailing started mixing gin with cordial & there was born Gimlet
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    Savoy Cocktail Book (1930), specifies one half Plymouth Gin and one half Rose’s Lime Juice Cordial. Now that’s too sweet to palate. So better three parts gin to one part of the lime Cordial. I don’t have the famous Rose’s Lime Cordial so my local delicate Mapro Lime Cordial did the substitute
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    My summer sip:
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    Ingredients

    Gin – 60 ml @bombaysapphire
    Lime Cordial – 20 ml
    Lime to garnish.
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    Preparation Method

    Add both ingredients to a mixing glass with ice. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass over some crushed ice. Garnish with lime.
    Enjoy the summer sip & Cheers & happy weekend

    Cheers!

  • Orange Tea Martini

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    Orange Tea Martini

    Ingredients

    Tanqueray Gin – 45 ml @tanqueraygin
    Desmondji Tequila – 15 ml @desmondji_agaveindia
    Bol Triple Sec – 15 ml @bolsgenever_nl
    Monin Lemon Tea – 15 ml @monin_europe
    Orange wedge – for garnish & express
    Fresh Mint – for garnish
    Ice – 6 cubes

    Preparation Method

    Chill the Martini glass Combine all in a shaker.  Shake it vigorously with six ice cubes to chill, dilute & mix. Pour it in the chilled Martini glass. Garnish with Mint & Orange wedge. Sip & enjoy the soothing flavours of the concoction. Don’t forget to express the orange peel mid-way.

    Cheers!

  • Gin Crystal Float

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    Gin Crystal Float

    Ingredients

    Gin – 45 ml @hapusagin
    Chandon Brut – 25 ml @chandonindia
    Lime juice – 5 ml
    Peach Liqueur – 15 ml
    Bacardi black crafted rum – 5 ml @bacardi
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    Preparation Method

    Drop a crystal ice ball in a Cocktail Martini glass. Combine the Gin, Peach liqueur & Lime juice in the glass  and gently stir. Pour the Brut.  Float the magic potion – The Crafted Rum. .

    Tasting time – The first sip brings out the smoothness of the full bodied rum followed with the rush of fruity and citrusy flavours coming of  peach, brut, lime. Next  the awesome lingering flavours of botanicals coming of gin. Finally – the finish of happiness & satisfaction – that the drink turned out lipsmacking
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    Cheers!

  • Gin-Vodka Buck

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    Gin-Vodka Buck

    Ingredients

    Grey Goose Vodka – 45 ml @greygoose_vodka
    Gordon’s London Dry Gin – 15 ml @gordonsginuk
    Triple Sec – 10 ml
    Schweppes Tonic Water @schweppes
    Fresh Mint Leaves
    Lemon wedges
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    Preparation Method

    Combine all over ice in a mixing glass  except tonic. Stir well. Pour it in the glass.Top it up with Schweppes. Express Fresh Mint & drop it in the drink along with Lemon wedges Enjoy the freshness as the flavours of Vodka & Gin explode the palate
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    Cheers!


  • Long Island Iced Tea

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    Long Island Iced Tea

    Robert “Rosebud” Butt is the personality who appears to have invented the Long Island Iced Tea as an entry in a contest to create a new mixed drink with triple sec in 1972 while he worked at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island, New York.
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    Variation to the Long Island is the Purple Rain, which uses the same mix as a Long Island but the Triple Sec is replaced with a shot of raspberry liqueur and the cola replaced with lemonade.

    Ingredients
    Tequila – 15 ml @reposado
    Vodka – 15 ml@absolutvodka_gallery
    Gin – 15 ml @gordonsginuk
    Rum – 15 ml @bacardi
    Orange Liqueur – 10 ml
    Lemon juice – 10 ml
    Cola – to top up @cocacola
    Preparation Method
    Pour lemon juice & orange liqueur in a Collin glass. Stir. Top it up with ice. Add the famous fours.
    Stir. Top it up with Cola & garnish with fresh mint leaves. Enjoy the long drink
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    Cheers!

  • Corpse Reviver

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    Corpse Reviver

    After a good X’mas celebrations, it’s time for hangover cure Here is the Corpse Reviver from the family of cocktails  intended as hangover remedy, hence the name as well.
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    I have my gin based Corpse Reviver. Only twist – I substituted the Vermouth with Chardonnay Dry white wine & instead of Absinthe I used the Peychaud bitters which  too has Anise aroma. Also replaced Cointreau to Grand Marnier 
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    Ingredients

    Gin – 25 ml @greaterthangin
    Lemon juice – 25 ml
    Grand Marnier – 25 ml @grandmarnierofficial
    Chardonnay – 25 ml
    Peychaud bitters – A dash @peychaudsaperitivo
    Orange twist – for garnish

    Corpse Reviver


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    Preparation Method

    Shake ingredients together in a mixer with ice. Strain into chilled glass. Garnish with orange twist 
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    Cheers!

     

  • Smoky Martini

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    Smoky Martini

    Ingredients

    Gin – 45 ml
    Smoky Scotch Whisky – 15 ml
    Orange peel
    Ice & Ice

    Preparation Method

    Pour the gin & scotch in a mixing glass with ice. Stir well & pour in a chilled Martini glass Express the Orange peel to release the essence and then drop it in the drink.
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    Cheers! 

  • Strawberry & Gin Mojito

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    Strawberry & Gin Mojito

    Ingredients

    Gin – 45 ml @greaterthangin
    Lemon juice  – 10 ml
    Orange juice – 10 ml
    Lime Cordial – 20 ml
    Tonic Water – to top
    Fresh Strawberry- 3 nos.
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    Preparation Method

    Slice the strawberries in cubes and drop in a low-ball rock glass along with Lemon, Orange juice & the Lime Cordial. Muddle it gently. Pour in the Gin. Stir it well. Drop the ice cubes & few slices of strawberry &  top it up with Tonic water. Garnish with a slice of Strawberry. There we have the Strawberry Gin Mojito ready to SIP!


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    Cheers! 

  • Long drink

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    December 13th, 2018

    Tonight I decided to first select the glass & then suit the cocktail to the palate & senses of the glass  A 550 ml lager glass was the toast of the evening. A Long drink for sure. A Long Drink is one of the first papyrus puzzles you can find in Assassin’s Creed Origins
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    My Long drink puzzle was finally solved with this concoction🥂
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    Ingredients

    Gin – 45 ml @greaterthangin
    White Wine – 50 ml @conasur Bicicleta
    Orange juice – 50 ml @tropicana
    Ginger ale – 20 ml
    Lemon juice – 10 ml
    Beer – to top up @carlsberg
    Lemon wedge – to garnish
    Bitters – 5 ml @peychauds

    Long Drink


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    Preparation Method

    Take your favorite lager glass. Pour in lemon juice, ginger ale & the gin. Stir well. Chuck in generous ice cubes and add in orange juice. Add the white wine and top it off with with your favorite lager. A dash of bitters adds to the complexity. Garnish with a fresh lemon wheel.
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    Cheers!

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