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World Gin Day 2020: 9 Refreshing Gin Cocktails For Your Sundowners

Join in the celebrations of World Gin Day by shaking up these gin cocktails that are perfect for summer

World Gin Day 2020: 9 Refreshing Gin Cocktails For Your Sundowners
Make delicious gin cocktails at home. Cheers!

Is gin your favourite drink? With June 13 being celebrated as World Gin Day all across the globe, this gives you all the more reasons to pull out your bottle of gin and shake up refreshing cocktails at home. When it comes to brunches or weekend sundowners to beat stress, gin cocktails make for the perfect pick to enjoy a range of flavours and unwind with family or by yourself. To make this weekend a gin-tastic affair, we present nine amazing gin cocktails from the experts. Cheers!

(Also read: World Gin Day 2020: An Expert Guide To Gin, The Most Trendy Drink)

1. Seaside Sour

Ingredients:

60 ml Tanqueray London Dry

40ml Lemon Juice

20ml Honey & Jasmine syrup (2 parts honey to 1 part jasmine tea)

20ml Egg white

Method:

Rim a rocks glass with lime sand (1 teaspoon salt + 1 teaspoon caster sugar combined, lime to stick to glass). Pop glass in a freezer.

Dry shake (without ice) the ingredients, and then wet shake.

Strain into pre-prepared glass, garnish with finely cut lemon zest.

2. Gin Sonic

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30ml Roku

60 ml tonic water

60 ml soda water

Lime garnish, as per your preference

Method:

Add ice to a highball glass and stir to chill glass. Add Roku and stir to chill the gin. Top with tonic.

3. Gin Mango Cooler

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60 ml Beefeater dry gin

60 ml mango puree

25 ml lemon juice

Soda to top

1 fresh mango/ orange wedge to garnish

Method:

Shake the gin, mango puree and lemon juice in a shaker with ice.

Pour into a tall glass filled with ice and top with soda. Stir and garnish with fresh mango.

4. Bee's Knees

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Ingredients:

60ml Monkey 47 Gin

20 ml fresh lemon juice

20 ml honey syrup (15 ml honey mixed with 1 tsp warm water)

Lime, to garnish

Method:

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the gin, lemon juice and honey syrup; shake well. Strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass. Garnish with a lime twist.

5. Gin Pina Tonic

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Ingredients:

60ml Beefeater London Dry Gin

30 ml pineapple juice

10 ml lemon juice

Top with tonic water

1 wedge fresh pineapple to garnish

Method:

Fill a tall glass with ice. Pour the gin, lemon juice and pineapple juice over the ice and stir briefly.

Top with tonic water, stir and garnish with fresh pineapple.

6. Gin Sour

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Ingredients:

60 ml Roku

10 ml matcha tea

1 egg white

Yuzu wheel, to garnish

Method:

Add egg whites to the shaker and shake to aerate. Add Roku and Matcha tea and shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a Yuzu wheel.

7. Gin Julep

Ingredients:

5 cl Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin

1 cl simple syrup

15 mint leaves

Method:

Muddle all ingredients, shake it with ice cubes and double-strain into a silver mug filled with crushed ice. Garnish it with mint leaves.

8. Mango And Gin

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Ingredients:

45 ml Tanqueray London Dry Gin

150 ml tonic water

30 ml mango juice

2 mint spring

1 star anise

2 pieces raw mango

Method:

Add the gin and mango juice to a glass and stir. Then tap the mint

spring and add the star anise. Fill the glass with crushed ice, top it up

with tonic and stir well.

Garnish with mint spring and raw mango.

9. Berried Tanqueray

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Ingredients:

60 ml Tanqueray London Dry Gin

30 ml cranberry juice

10 ml lime juice

60 ml tonic

60 ml soda

1 fresh thyme

Method:

To a glass add the gin, cranberry juice, lime juice. Tap the thyme, fill the glass the ice, top it up with tonic, soda and stir well. Garnish with a thyme spring.

Pro Tip: You could also freeze some berries and flowers from your garden in ice and add it to make #GardeninMyGlass

Shake up these delicious gin cocktails and enjoy!

(Also read: World Cocktail Day: Beat The Heat With These 6 Refreshing Cocktails)

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