drink
Cocktail hour
To celebrate World Cocktail Day on 13th May, mix up one of these cool cocktails using spirits produced at some of our favourite local distilleries. Come and sample more local spirits, beers, ciders and wines at our new Warner’s store in Upton-upon-Severn, opening on 26th May…
6 O’Clock Gin: The Bee’s Knees
A dainty little cocktail that pairs the smoothness of honey with tart lemon and the botanical complexity of 6 O’Clock Gin
Ingredients:
2 parts 6 O’Clock London Dry Gin
1 part fresh lemon Juice
1 tsp honey
Method: shake the gin, lemon and honey in a shaker, along with a handful of ice (you may find that a dash of hot water helps ‘loosen’ the honey). Strain the mixture into a cocktail glass – the fancier the better!
Garnish: a piece of lemon peel or some (edible) flowers from your garden.
Chase Distillery: Elderflower & Apple Collins
Enjoy Bank Holiday drinks with this long cocktail inspired by the flavours of local hedgerows
Ingredients:
25ml Chase Hedgerow Elderflower Gin
50ml cloudy apple juice
Juice of half a lemon
Soda water top
Method: combine all ingredients in a highball glass with cubed ice and stir well.
Garnish: a slice of apple and cucumber.
Penrhos Spirits: Dry Gin Mojito
Recreate this classic cocktail using the finest spirits distilled from Herefordshire’s award-winning distillery
Ingredients:
Soda water
2 tsp caster sugar
1 lime
10 mint leaves
Method: add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker and muddle together to release the flavours. Pour over ice, top up with soda, stir well.
Garnish: wedge of lime and sprigs of mint.
Wildjac Distillery: BBC (Botanical, Basil, Cucumber)
Combining sweet and savoury flavours from the garden, this cocktail brings you back to nature
Ingredients:
100ml tonic water
3 cucumber slices
3 basil leaves
½ tbsp sugar
lime juice (to taste)
½ cup crushed ice
Method: roll two basil leaves together, slicing them into smaller pieces. Add sugar to a glass, along with Wildjac Botanical Gin, stirring well until dissolved. Add two cucumber slices and the sliced basil leaves, muddle 5-10 times. Add lime juice to taste and top with crushed ice and tonic water.
Garnish: with cucumber and a basil leaf.
Cotswold Distillery: Caipirotswold
Just the perfect refreshing drink on a sunny day, no fuss and bursting with fresh grapefruit zest
Ingredients:
60ml Cotswolds Dry Gin
10ml sugar syrup
4 wedges of grapefruit
Method: muddle wedges of grapefruit in a shaker tin, transfer into rocks glass, add gin and sugar, stir, add crushed ice and lift grapefruit through the ice and serve.
Garnish: with grapefruit wedges.
