1 part Beefeater Gin 2 parts Dubonnet (or any alternative sweet vermouth) 1 dash angostura bitters 1 teaspoon maraschino liqueur Stir all ingredients with as much ice as you can fit into your mixing glass and strain into a chilled martini … Continue reading
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Beefeater Honey Fig Sour
2 parts Beefeater Gin 1 part fresh squeezed lemon juice 1 small egg white (optional) 1 teaspoon honey 1 fig Use a rolling pin to crush the fig with the honey in a large screw top jar or cocktail shaker. … Continue reading
Beefeater Burrough’s Millionaire
1 part Beefeater Gin 1 part sloe gin 1 part Grand Marnier 1 part apricot brandy 1 part pomegranate juice 1 part lime juice Shake all the ingredients in an ice filled cocktail shaker, large screw top jar or jam … Continue reading
Beefeater Burrough’s Festive Plum Punch
1 part Beefeater Gin 1 part sloe gin 1½ parts lemon juice ½ part orange juice ¼ part sugar syrup ⅛ part marmalade 1.5 parts Belvoir spiced winter berry cordial 3 parts chilled Earl Grey tea 2 parts prosecco Mix … Continue reading
Beefeater Botanical Blazer
2 parts Beefeater Gin 1 teaspoon Dubonnet 2 blackberries 1 small string redcurrants or pomegranate seeds (or other fruit) 1 piece orange peel 1 teaspoon granulated sugar Fill a wide, short whisky tumbler ¾ of the way with hot water. … Continue reading
Basil Gimlet
5 fresh basil leaves 50 ml Gin 25 ml lime juice 10 ml gomme syrup Muddle the basil leaves in a Boston shaker. Add ice and the other ingredients and shake well then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish … Continue reading
Autumn Orchard Lightning
60ml Beefeater Blackberry Shrub 100ml Perry 100ml Pear and Apple Juice 25ml Beefeater Gin 1 inch stick of cinnamon 1 wheel of lemon studded with 6 cloves To make Beefeater Blackberry Shrub put 450g of Blackberries in a pan with … Continue reading
Sloe down for winter
Sloe Gin is a British liqueur, which is traditionally drunk neat as a warming drink in winter. It’s a combination of gin and sloe berries, the fruit of prunus spinosa, the blackthorn tree that grows wild throughout the UK. The … Continue reading
Matching food with Plymouth Gin
Gin drinks are generally seen as a prelude to food because they do what an aperitif or sundowner does best which is to sharpen and refresh the palate. Since Asian and Pacific Rim styles of cuisine have become popular gin … Continue reading
P&P Purl
200ml Hix IPA 100ml Hix Oyster Ale 25ml Beefeater Gin 3 tablespoon of Ginger Syrup (taken from a jar of stem ginger in syrup) Warm the ingredients in a pan until piping hot and then pour into a tankard and … Continue reading
White Lady
Although this cocktail has a frothy finish and elegant texture, this lady ain’t so innocent! 4 ice cubes 2 measures gin 1 measure Cointreau Dash lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon egg white Place all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and … Continue reading
Blackwood’s Vintage 60
With gin currently on a roll and lots of brands experimenting with their botanicals recipes to create new and unusual gins, it’s good news to hear that Gintime Gin Brand Blackwood’s has come up with something completely different. In fact … Continue reading
The Iconic Martini
It’s a brave act to add a single word to all the many thousands that have been written about the Martini. Whole books have been written about it: cultural theories have been dedicated to it: people have come to blows … Continue reading
Maracuya Mosquito
by Charlotte Voisey 1 1/2 oz Hendrick’s Gin 1 1/2 oz Maracuya puree (or passion fruit juice) 1/2 oz simple syrup 1/2 oz fresh lime juice 4 leaves basil Assemble ingredients and shake well, strain over fresh ice in a … Continue reading
Ginizin
12 ml crème de mur 25 ml blackberry puree 75 ml apple juice 37 ml Plymouth Gin Fill mixing glass with ice. Add ingredients, shake well then pour into ice filled glass. Garnish with a slice of apple.
Fig Supreme
From Head Barman Antonio Dandrea of Pennyhill Park Hotel’s Ascot Bar 50 ml Saffron gin, 10 ml pimm’s, 10 ml lillet (French vermouth) 10ml fig liqueur. Stir over ice and serve in a chilled martini glass.
Plymouth Punch
25 ml lemonade 50 ml Guava Juice 50 ml Plymouth Gin Fill glass with ice; pour in guava juice and gin, top with lemonade and stir
Dutch Courage – a short history of Dutch Jenever
Dutch Jenever is the first cousin of English gin. Both are juniper flavoured distillates of alcohol and they share a common ancestry and a common birthplace – the Low Countries – Holland and Belgium on today’s maps but one country until the … Continue reading
Gin Palaces
In the 19th Century the consumption of beer was actively encouraged as a counterpart to the gin mania of the previous century. By 1836 there were 56,000 licensed beer shops in England and Wales. Many of these were ramshackle dives … Continue reading
Paradise
This is an old-school cocktail but light and refreshing. Make sure your orange and lemon juice is freshly squeezed or try it with clementine and lime juice for a modern twist. 4 ice cubes 1 measure gin 1/2 measure apricot … Continue reading
