Say cheers to World Gin Day with six refreshing summer cocktail recipes with Beefeater London Dry Gin.
To celebrate World Gin Day, we bring you six luscious cocktail recipes using the world’s most awarded gin, Beefeater London Dry Gin. Named after the guards at the Tower of London and made with the original, 200-year-old recipe of the brand’s founder, James Burrough – using nine botanicals with a big swathe of juniper, a touch of liquorice, and lashings of two types of citrus – this is a gin that’s clean and bold, and perfect for summer cocktails.
Beefeater Collins
INGREDIENTS
60 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
25 ml Lime Juice
15 ml Sugar syrup
Soda to top
To Garnish: Lemon wedge/ Lemon peel spiral
Glass: Collins/ Highball
METHOD
1. Shake the gin, lime and sugar syrup in a shaker with crushed ice.
2. Strain into the chilled Collins glass filled with ice and a lemon peel spiral.
3. Top with soda.
4. Garnish with a lemon wedge in case you can’t make a lemon peel spiral.
Beefeater Mango Cooler
INGREDIENTS
60 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
60 ml Mango Puree
25 ml Lemon juice
Top with Soda
To Garnish: 1 wedge fresh mango/ orange
Glass: Highball/ Collins
METHOD
1. Shake the gin, mango puree and lemon juice in a shaker with crushed ice.
2. Pour into a tall glass filled with ice.
3. Top with soda, stir and garnish with fresh mango.
Beefeater Passion-Tini
INGREDIENTS
45 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
60 ml Passion-fruit juice or Pulp from 1fresh passion fruit
5mllimejuice
5-10 mlSugar syrup (depending on how sour the passionfruit is)
ToGarnish: Wedge or half a passion fruit (fresh)
Glass: Martini/ Coupe
METHOD
1.Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice.
2.Fine-strain into the chilled martini or coupe glass.
3.Garnish withapassionfruit wedge or half.
Beefeater Snapper
INGREDIENTS
60 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
180mltomatojuice
20mllemonjuice
5 ml hot sauce/ tabasco/ sriracha
5mlWorcestershire sauce
1 pinch chilli powder
1pinchcuminpowder
¼ tsp celery salt (or regular salt)
¼ tspcrushedblackpepper
1pinchgarlicpowder (optional)
Splashofolivebrine(optional)
1pinchhorseradish(optional)
ToGarnish:
1 celery stalk
1dillpickle
2 stuffed green olives
1wedgelemon
5-10 ice cubes
Glass: Highball/ Collins
METHOD
1.Shake all the ingredients in a shaker.
2.Pourintoatallglass.
3.Garnish with celery, the pickle, green olives and lemon.
Beefeater Pina Tonic
INGREDIENTS
60 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
30 ml Pineapple Juice
10 mlLemon juice
Top with Tonic water
ToGarnish:1 wedge fresh pineapple
Glass:Highball/ Collins
METHOD
1.Fill a tallglass with ice.
2.Pourthegin,pineapplejuiceandlemonjuice over the ice and stir briefly.
3.Top with tonic, stir and garnish with fresh pineapple.
BEEFEATER & IT
INGREDIENTS
45 ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
30 ml Martini Rosso/ Sweet vermouth
1 dash Orange bitters/ bitters
ToGarnish: Orange peel/ orange half moon
Glass: Old fashioned/ rocks/ whisky glass
METHOD
1.Stir all the ingredients with ice.
2.Strain into a chilled Old Fashioned glass filled with ice.
3.Garnish withorange peel or a half moon.
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