Photography by Steve Brown
Below is a selection of tempting gin cocktails from December’s Bartender magazine. If you’d like to see you creations in our monthly photo shoot email your recipes to [email protected]
Lady Tipples
30ml Plymouth Gin
30ml Noilly Prat dry vermouth
10ml Camomile liqueur
Add all ingredients in a Boston glass with cubed ice stir until chilled. Strain into coupette glass. Garnish with lemon zest.
Nico Darras, The Den, Sydney
Quicha
45ml Gin
45ml Pisco
5ml Sugar syrup
1 dash Maraschino liquer
2 dash Orange bitters
Stir and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnished with a lime slice.
Adapted from El Libro Del Buen Cocktail by Eduardo Eloy Otero (1943) by Nathan Beasley, Black Pearl, Melbourne
Blue Lady
50ml Hendricks
10mls Messanez Liqueur de Camomile
12.5mls Elderflower Cordial
20mls Fresh Lemon Juice
5 Blueberries
Dash of Egg White
Muddle Blueberries, then add rest of ingredients. Dry shake then add ice. Shake/ Double strain into a coupette. Garnish with 3 skewered blueberries.
Quyhn Nyugen, Blue Hotel, Sydney
Sloe Gin Rickey
50ml Plymouth Sloe Gin
Juice of a whole lime
Sugar Syrup to taste
Tonic Water
Build over fresh ice. Top with Tonic. Garnish with Blood Orange Wheels layered throughout the glass.
Thales Papadopoulos, The Palazzo Versace, Gold Coast
Watermelon and Thyme Martini
40mls Bombay Sapphire
15mls Watermelon liqueur
12.5mls Green Chartreuse
20mls Fresh lime juice
4 chunks of Watermelon
1 sprig of Thyme
Method – Muddle watermelon chunks. Then add rest of ingredients. Shake/ Double strain. Glassware – Martini or Coupette. Garnish – Sprig of Thyme
Quyhn Nyugen, Blue Hotel, Sydney
San Telmo
20ml Campari
20ml Tanqueray
20ml Peach schnapps
60ml Fresh pink grapefruit juice
20ml Egg white
Add all ingredients into shaker. Hard shake with ice and strain into a highball over ice. Garnish with a grapefruit zest.
Julian Serna, Porteño, Sydney
Did you test out your gin knowledge in the December issue of Bartender Magazine? If so…here are the answers. So now it’s time to see if you know what you’re talking about. GOOD LUCK!
(Q1) What was the result of the Gin Act of 1736?
(Q2) Who is dubiously credited with inventing Gin?
(Q3) What century was the Gin Craze?
(Q4) Which artist etched the famous image ‘Gin Lane’ in 1751?
(Q5) The Black Friars Distillery is otherwise known as what?
(Q6) The 1913 edition Webster’s Dictionary described ‘common gin’ to be often flavoured by what?
(Q7) Where is the National Gin Museum?
(Q8) What are the ingredients in a Gin Ricky?
(Q9) What cocktail has; Gin, Cointreau + lemon juice?
(Q10) What invention in 1832 greatly enabled the distillation of neutral spirits?
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