Beefeater 24’s recent US Cocktail Comp required contestants to create a new drink containing Beefeater 24 plus 6 other ingredients. Here’s the winning recipe created by  Preston Eckman, and a damn fine drink it is too!
Matcha Fizz
Adapted from a recipe by Preston Eckman, Apothecary Lounge, Philadelphia

• 1oz Beefeater 24
• 1oz Gyokuro (green tea shochu)
• small pinch matcha
• half of an egg white
• 0.5oz lemon juice
• 0.5oz honey syrup
• 1 medium sized sage leaf
• 1 sage tip tossed in matcha, as garnish

Shake over ice and strain into a chilled  champagne coupe

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Here’s something to cheer up those long winter nights ahead. Martin Miller’s Gin will be hosting a series of ‘Masterclasses for the Gintelligentsia’ at  the Miller’s Residence, Martin Miller’s boutique hotel in Notting Hill. The Classes will be held during November, December and January and will be hosted by Craig Harper, Master Mixologist and Head of Martin Miller’s Gin.  A limited amount of tickets will be  available at £10 each, redeemable against a bottle of Martin Miller’s Gin on the night. For more information on dates have a look at www.martinmillersgin.com

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Text4Cocktails is a brand new service that allows you to receive cocktail recipes on the move. Whether you’re buying ingredients, making cocktails for friends or customers, or out socialising, receive recipes instantly on your mobile phone. There’s no subscription, just a small payment per text .

The brainchild of Aberdeen entrepreneur, Ryan Coutts and partnered by local design company Damage Inc. Design, the concept has taken bars, clubs and off-licences in the North-East by storm. As Ryan explains: “I was working as a bar manager and noticed that people would ask for cocktails and staff sometimes didn’t know how to make them. Cocktail recipe books aren’t always on hand, but eight out of 10 people these days have a mobile.”

To use the service all you have to do is text COCKTAIL and the name of your cocktail of choice e.g. MARTINI to 84383 to get an instant response:

Ryan added, “We’ve also seen the service prove useful for when you’re out and about and need to find cocktail recipes or recommendations as we’ve recently introduced two other options:

Simply text COCKTAIL and NEW to receive the latest recipe, or text COCKTAIL and the spirit of your choice e.g. GIN to receive the latest gin cocktail recipe. Cool or what? For more information please go to www.text4cocktails.co.uk

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Martin Miller’s Gin celebrated its 10th Anniversary this week by hosting a Cocktail Competition with a difference on famous  Brighton  Beach. Top barmen from around the UK joined a panel of judges to compete for a trip to the Martin Miller’s Gin Masters in the US in November.  In full view of Brighton Pier and its slightly less sturdy neighbour, the West Pier, and a pebble’s throw from the beach, the participants battled it out over an al fresco bar)

The winner overall was Edinburgh’s Ryan Chetiyawardana of Bramble, with his 10th Anniversary Cocktail, ‘Decennalia’, using  Martin Miller’s Gin and Springbank 10 year old Single Malt, In the ‘Lost & Stolen’ category Ryan mixed the delicious ‘Ace of Violets’, for which he redistilled Miller’s Westbourne Strength to produce an innovative Crème d’Yvette drink. Jamie MacDonald, Barman at the newly opened Hotel Missoni, won first prize in the ‘Lost & Stolen’ category with a Cosmo and it was his knowledge and balance of the cocktail which won him the round. Cameron Daws from Koba in Brighton won the prize for Overall Bar Personality with what Lucinda McCaffrey, Martin Miller’s Gin Brand Ambassador, described as his “cheeky personality” and his “hilarious” speed round meant the judges voted they would most like to sit at his bar.  The other finalists included Dave White from Tiger Lily and Nico Espagnol from Lonsdale, who for the Speed Round stripped down to his Speedo swimming trunks!

Martin Miller’s Gin 10th Anniversary Cocktail – Decennalia

by Ryan Chetiyawardana

• 2 brown sugar cubes
• Rhubarb bitters
• 50ml Martin Miller’s Gin Westbourne Strength
• 25ml Springbank 10 Year Old Single Malt
• 1 x whole egg
• Grapefruit zest

Martin Miller’s Gin Lost & Stolen Cocktail – Ace of Violets

by Ryan Chetiyawardana

• 37.5ml Martin Miller’s Gin 40
• 20ml fresh lemon juice
• 25ml Martin Miller’s Yvette (redistilled Martin Miller’s Gin with Crème d’Yvette)
• 10ml Noilly Dry
• Dash of Angostura Orange
• 1 x egg white
• Nutmeg

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Renowned D.C. mixologist Gina Chersevani has come up with a stunning idea – the P.B.L.T. (Plymouth, Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato), an innovative cocktail infused with crisp flavors of lettuce, tomato and , would you believe it  – bacon.  Here’s the recipe:

P.B.L.T.

• 1 oz Plymouth Gin
• 1 cube of lettuce water
• 1 cube of tomato water
• Spray vinegar on one side of glass and stick dehydrated bacon dust on side.

First spray vinegar on a glass and dip in dehydrated bacon dust, then place a lettuce water cube, tomato cube, then pour the Plymouth Gin over top.

Tomato Cubes

• 16 oz of fresh tomato juice (either in a juicer or done in a blender and then strained)
• 1 teaspoon of white pepper
• 1 pinch of fleur de sel
• 4 oz of fresh lemon juice
• 4 dashes of Tabasco

Combine all ingredients together and fill ice trays.  Makes about 24-30 cubes

Lettuce Cubes

• 14 oz of lettuce water (2 large heads of iceberg lettuce, that has been juiced in a juicer)
• 1 teaspoon of white pepper
• 1 pinch of fleur de sel
• 4 oz of lemon juice

Combine all ingredients together and fill ice trays.  Makes about 20-24 cubes

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