It's Friday! Even though we're under lockdown, weekends can still be fun, especially now that the alcohol shops are open again! Since its summer, we recommend some refreshing gin-based cocktails. Here are three gin cocktail recipes that use Beefeater gin. Choose from a citrusy Beefeater Collins, a spicy Beefeater Snapper or the fruity Beefeater Passion-tini:
BEEFEATER COLLINS
Ingredients
60 ml Beefeater dry gin
25 ml lime juice
10ml fresh lemon juice
15ml sugar syrup
Soda to top
To Garnish
Lemon wedge/ Lemon peel spiral
Glass
Collins/ High ball
Method
Shake the gin, lime and sugar syrup in a shaker with ice
Strain into the chilled Collins glass filled with ice and a lemon peel spiral
Top with soda
Garnish with a lemon wedge incase you can’t make a spiral peel
BEEFEATER SNAPPER
Ingredients
60ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
180ml Tomato Juice
20ml lemon juice
5 ml hot sauce/ tobacco/ sriracha
5 ml Worcestershire sauce
1 pinch chilli powder
1 pinch cumin powder
¼ teaspoon celery salt or regular salt
¼ teaspoon crushed black pepper
1 pinch garlic powder (optional)
Splash of olive brine (optional)
1 pinch horseradish (optional)
Glass
High ball/ Collins
Method
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker. Pour into a tall glass. Garnish with celery, the pickle
green olives and lemon.
BEEFEATER PASSION-TINI
Ingredients
45 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
60 Ml Passion fruit juice or pulp from 1 ½ fresh passion fruits
5 ml lime juice
5-10 ml sugar syrup (depending on how sour the passion fruit is)
To Garnish
Wedge or half a passion fruit (fresh)
Glass
Martini/ Coupe
Method
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice
Fine-strain into the chilled martini or coupe glass
Garnish with a passion fruit wedge or half