For the festive season, Brockmans Gin, the gin like no other, is serving up some stylish, elegant and surprising gin cocktails. Each one of them draws out the blueberry and blackberry notes and the bitter-sweet Valencian orange peel and other exquisite botanicals that are present in the gin. Try this delicious Burlesque Cocktail.
Brockmans Gin is available from Asda, Booths, Marks & Spencer; Morrisons, Oddbins and a number of online stores and specialist drinks retailers (priced at around £34-36). It’s the perfect Christmas gift, so don’t just keep it to yourself. Look out for the Brockmans Gin gift tube in some retailers.
This is a wonderful wintery sip, with a refined and sophisticated complexity.
40ml Brockmans Gin
15ml Dry Vermouth
30ml Lemon Juice
20ml Hibiscus syrup
5 muddled blackberries
7 drops of Burlesque bitters
METHOD
Muddle the blackberries in a shaker and add all the ingredients then hard shake over ice cubes. Double strain the liquid into a martini glass.
GARNISH
With a hibiscus plant outer leaf, a blackberry and thin plum slice on a wooden skewer or suitably dark edible flowers.
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