Beautiful and Refreshing Gin Cocktails You Will be Proud to Serve at Your Next Party
Be the Mixologist of the month with these beautiful and refreshing gin cocktails at your neighborhood bash this summer. Below are two different and delightful gin brands, and also a brand of premium cocktail mixers, Fresh Victor, that are all definitely worth a try. Your neighbors will know you are a true gin aficionado when you mix up some of these recipes!
Dual Cask Gin from the Filibuster Distillery
A gin which reminisces the past. Crafted in a style of the 18th-century bathtub gin, their gin is accented with their proprietary combination of botanicals. Aged in French Oak barrels and bottled at 90 proof, you’ll discover flavors and fragrances not found in other barrel-aged gins.
Gin and Tonic Recipe
- Add ice to glass and stir to chill glass
- Pour 2 oz of Dual Cask gin
- Pour 4 oz to 6 oz of tonic water
- Garnish with lime or any citrus fruit
Price: $31.99
Link to purchase: Modern Liquors
135° East Hydro Gin – A Japanese Artisan Gin
Our gin draws its name from the 135o meridian east which crosses Akashi City in the Hyogo prefecture – the home of our Kaikyo Distillery. The meridian line perfectly represents our passion for discovering what lies beyond its borders. Inspired by the Taisho period, our Hyogo Style Gin plays on a time when eastern culture merged with western customs. This is expertly reflected in our ingredients as they enhance and complement each other. Traditional London Dry Gin botanicals mingle with Japanese botanicals. Expertly weaved together, the botanicals of 135o EAST Gin awaken the senses by stimulating the unexpected.
SRP: $30.99
Link to Purchase: Reserve Bar
Longitude Line Cocktail
30 ml 135° EAST Gin
10 ml Akashi-Tai Umeshu Liqueur
10 ml Hibiscus syrup
15 ml Freshlime juice
10 ml Egg white or Aquafaba
Garnish: Dried Hibiscus Flowers
Method: Dry Shake (no ice), then shaken with ice.
Fresh Victor
Making craft cocktails/mocktails just got easier with Fresh Victor, a line of premium mixers. With Fresh Victor’s premium, cold-pressed juice mixers, you are the victor! Get out from behind the bar and back to the party. This is how you make fast, delicious craft cocktails and amazing mocktails — Every. Single. Time. Just mix with your favorite spirit or non-alcoholic beverage, stir and sip. With our clean-label, fresh-ingredients mixers, you’ll serve up beautiful, great tasting and surprisingly healthy drinks that your friends will be talking about for weeks.
SRP: $9.99 per bottle
Link to Purchase: Fresh Victor
Grapefruit & Rosemary Gin & Tonic
To make one glass:
1 oz Fresh Victor Grapefruit & Sea Salt
1.5 oz gin
4 oz tonic water
2 rosemary sprigs
1-2 grapefruit wheels / half wheels (whatever fits your glass)
Build Method
Easier (less rosemary flavor): Build all ingredients over ice in a large goblet glass (red wine) and garnish.
Shaker Method
Optional (more rosemary flavor): In a cocktail shaker, lightly muddle one rosemary sprig, cover with Fresh Victor, gin and ice, shake lightly and strain over ice in a large goblet glass (red wine), top with tonic water and garnish with the grapefruit wheel and other rosemary sprig.
Substitute a non-alcoholic gin replacement.
Bee’s Knees
To make one glass:
3oz Fresh Victor Lemon Sour
1.5oz Gin
1oz 1:1 raw honey syrup*
Garnish: lemon twist
Glass: cocktail
* heat water and add an equal amount of hot water, by volume, to the amount of honey you have. Stir until dissolved and store in the refrigerator.
Shaker Method
In a cocktail shaker, add all ingredients, fill the shaker with ice, shake well (to chill and dilute) and strain up in a 7-9oz cocktail glass. Add garnish and serve.
Build Method
In a glass full of ice, add all ingredients, plus 1.5 ounces of water (for dilution), stir gently, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish and serve
Non-Alcoholic Version
In a cocktail shaker, add all ingredients, increasing the non-alcoholic components to account for the loss of liquid volume by the elimination of the alcohol. Fill the shaker with ice, shake well (to chill and dilute) and strain up in a cocktail glass. Add garnish and serve.
Mixologist’s Notes:
Fresh Victor Lemon Sour was designed slightly more sour than our other mixers in order to allow for the addition of liqueurs and syrups that will bring more flavor complexity to the drink, so 1oz of 1:1 honey syrup balances nicely in this recipe. If you find it too sweet, simply cut back the amount of honey syrup you use. We recommend using raw honey and paying the premium for good local brands, as that is what really helps support the survival of honey bees, (plus, raw honey has much more flavor and aroma).
Cucumber and Tonic
3oz Fresh Victor Cucumber & Lime
1.5oz gin
1-2oz tonic water
In a tall glass, build all ingredients and top with ice. Stir gently to combine. Garnish with a lime wedge and a cucumber wheel.
(For a Cucumber Collins substitute Soda for Tonic)
