10 simple Christmas gin cocktails you should try
The countdown to Christmas gets us closer and closer to our fave winter holiday and we’re looking forward to it with great anticipation. We’ve put together a list of ten of our favourite Christmas gin cocktails to help you celebrate this festive season in the most tasty way possible.
The festive martini
Image: 6 O’clock gin
Ingredients
- 60 ml 6 O’clock Gin
- 10 ml Bramley & Gage Dry Vermouth
- 2 dashes Orange Bitters
Method
- Chill you glass in the fridge / freezer and prepare a piece of orange peel for the garnish.
- Fill a cocktail glass (or a glass measuring jug) with plenty of ice.
- Add the 6 O’clock Gin, the dry vermouth and the bitters and stir with a long spoon to combine and chill the drink.
- Pour into your cocktail glass and garnish with the orange peel. Drink while cold!
Hendrick’s Hot Spiced Apple
Ingredients
- 150ml Hendrick’s Gin
- 750ml Spiced Apple Juice
- 2 cloves
- 2 cardamom
- 2 star anise Juniper berries
- Peel of 1 orange
Method
Simmer the apple juice with spices in a pan. Add Hendrick’s Gin in a tankard or teacup, and garnish with 3 slices of apple and a dusting of nutmeg.
Under the mistletoe
Ingredients
- 2 oz Dry gin
- 7 Cranberries
- 1 Thyme
- 1 oz Simple syrup
- 1 Club soda
- 1 Cranberry juice
- 2 orange half-wheels
Method
In a Collins glass, muddle the cranberries and orange. Add the gin and simple syrup, and fill with ice. Top with a mixture of two parts cranberry juice to one part club soda. Stir with a thyme sprig and garnish with three additional cranberries.
Festive 75
Image: Bombay Saphire
Ingredients
- 25 ml Star of Bombay
- 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1 ratio sugar:water)
- 15 ml fresh lemon juice
- 50 ml Sparking wine or Champagne
- Star anise to garnish
Method
- Take flute glass from freezer
- Shake all ingredients (apart from Champagne)
- Add chilled champagne to flute
- Pour shaker contents into flute on top of Champagne
- Garnish with a single star anise
Pink peppered grapefruit
Ingredients
- 25 ml Pink Gin
- 50 ml Pink Grapefruit Juice
- 5 ml Pink Rose Syrup
- London Essence Pomelo & Pink Pepper Tonic Water
Method
Mix together in a highball glass and serve with a grapefruit wedge garnish.
Sipsmith gingerbread sour
Image: Sipsmith
Ingredients
- 50 ml Sipsmith London Dry Gin
- 20 ml Lemon juice
- 12.5 ml gingerbread syrup
- 1 dash Regan’s OJ bitters
- 1 egg white
- Ginger to garnish
Method
Pour all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake. fine strain the mixture into a chilled glass and serve with slivers of ginger on a cocktail stick.
Kintyre slingle bells
Image: Kintyre gin
Ingredients
- 50 ml Kintyre gin
- 30 ml Grenadine
- 2 spoonfuls pomegranate seeds
Method
- Shake over ice
- Top with soda water
- Garnish a sugar rimmed glass with pomegranate seeds
Boodles royale
Ingredients
- 2 oz. Boodles Mulberry Gin
- 1 oz. Fresh lemon juice
- 2 Mint leaves
- Soda water
Method
- Combine Mulberry Gin, lemon juice and mint in a shaker with ice.
- Shake and strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice and top with soda water.
Blackberry Fizz
Ingredients
- 25 ml gin
- 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
- 15 ml Sugar Syrup
- 2 Blackberries
Method
- Add gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and blackberries to cocktail shaker with ice
- Shake and fine strain into flute
- Top with Prosecco
- Garnish with a blackberry
Sloe gin flip
Image: Sipsmith
Ingredients
- 50 ml Sipsmith sloe gin
- 12.5 ml sugar syrup
- 1 whole egg
- Dark chocolate garnish
Method
Place all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker, dry shake, then fill with ice and shake again. Double strain into a chilled glass and garnish with a grating of dark chocolate.
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