World Gin Day is June 10, and your bar/restaurant should create a menu bursting with botanicals to celebrate the spirit. Gin is also perfect in refreshing summer cocktails that focus on vegetal or fruit flavors!

And if you're looking to learn more about this versatile spirit, check out our Spirited Stock column!

 

 

gin cocktail recipe
Recipe: Shelby Mastro / Beverage Director,
GlenPharmer Distillery, Franklin, MA (Photo: Shelby Mastro)

Bees Knees

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz. gin

3/4 oz. The Perfect Purée White Peach Puree, thawed

1/2 oz. lemon juice

3/4 oz. ginger honey syrup

 

Directions:

Add all ingredients with ice into shaker. Shake and strain into glass with fresh ice. Garnish with flower petals.

 

gin cocktail recipe
Recipe: Manny Hinojosa / Mixologist (Photo: The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley)

Manchuria

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz. Bombay Sapphire Gin

1 oz. The Perfect Purée Mango Puree, thawed

1/8 oz. The Perfect Purée Ginger Puree, thawed

 2 oz. kombucha

3/4 oz. lime juice

3/4 oz. simple syrup

Directions:

In a cocktail shaker combine all the ingredients with ice, shake and serve in a tall glass. Serve over the rocks with volcanic black salt and lime peel.

 

mulled gin cocktail recipe
Recipe: J.Bespoke (Photo: Jose Gutierrez)

Mulled Gin Sour

Ingredients:

1.75 oz Spring 44 Gin

.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

.25 oz Yellow Chartreuse

.5 oz Spiced Dram Syrup

1 Egg White

Mulled wine

Directions:

Dry shake with mint. Wet shake. Double strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with basil leaf and a float of mulled wine.

 

gin recipe world gin day
Recipe: Marshall Minaya,
Beverage Director at Madame George

Forgotten Borough Sour

Ingredients:

1 oz Old Duff Genever

½ oz Angostura Bitters

½ oz Del Maguey Chichicapa Mezcal

1 oz Acid Adjusted Pineapple Juice (pina->lime)

½ oz Demerara Syrup

Egg White

Garnish: 3 Peychaud & 3 Toasted Sesame Oil Petals

Directions:

Add all ingredients to a small tin, starting with egg white. Dry shake, add ice, and shake vigorously. Double strain into a chilled egg coupe. Drop Peychaud & Sesame Oil in alternating drops, then draw bamboo skewer through drops to create petals.

 

gin cocktail gin fizz
(Photo & recipe: Monin)

Blue Lavender Gin Fizz

Ingredients:

2 oz. gin

3/4 oz. Monin Lavender Syrup

1 oz. pasteurized egg white

3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice

2 pump(s) Monin Blueberry Concentrated Flavor

Garnish: blueberries, lavender sprig

Directions:

Combine ingredients in shaker in the order listed, except sparkling beverage. Cap and shake vigorously. Strain into chilled Collins glass. Top with sparkling beverage. Garnish with blueberries and lavender sprig.

 

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