Recipes: Cocktails & Mocktails

1. Prepare Cordial

Simple syrup + lemongrass + fresh ginger + fresh basil + cucumber + kaffer lime leaves

Combine simple syrup with the above ingredients and allow to infuse un til the desirted flavour is achieved (at least 30 mins). Strain; refrigerate until ready to use.

2. Mix Drink

1.5 oz Ginger Perry + 1/2 oz Empress 1908 Gin + 1 oz cordial + 1.5 oz calamansi juice + 1 tsp fresh lime juice

Add the cordial, calamansi juice and lime juice to a cocktail shaker. Hard shake until throughly chilled and well combined. Pour into rocks glass filled with ice. Top with Ginger Perry and stir to gently combine. Layer Empress 1908 Gin over top. Garnish with a fresh kaffir lime leaf.

• 2 oz Ruby Rose sparkling cider
• 1 oz Tequila
• ½ oz Triple Sec
• ½ oz fresh lime juice
• ¼ oz simple syrup 
• Salt for glass rim garnish
• Lime slices for garnish

Combine ingredients with ice into a shaker and shake vigourously. Rim a rocks glass with salt to your liking. Strain ingredients into glass over fresh ice. Garnish with lime slices.

• 3 oz Sassamanash
• 1 oz gin
• 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 oz simple syrup
• Lemon twist for garnish

In a cocktail shaker with ice, place the gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup. Shake until chilled and strain into a flute or coupe glass.

Top with Sassamanash and garnish with a lemon twist.

• 3 oz Birds and the Bees 
• 1 oz Gin
• ½ oz honey syrup 
• ½ oz lemon juice
• Lemon slice and rosemary sprig for garnish

Stir all ingredients together with ice and strain into coupe glass. Garnish with lemon wheel and rosemary sprig

• 750 ml bottle of Rumrunner (aka Prohibition)
• 1/4 c mulling spices
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 3 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter

Heat Rumrunner and cinnamon stick in saucepan - be careful not to boil! Add mulling spices, brown sugar, and butter; simmer gently. Serve warm and enjoy!

• 3 oz Kings & Spies
• 2 oz Aperol
• 1 oz Club Soda
• Fresh orange slices for garnish

Fill a large wine glass with ice. Pour in the Kings & Spies. Gentle top with Aperol, then Club Soda. Add an orange slice for garnish.

• 8 oz Wolf in the Woods
• 8 oz pilsner or lager

Mix the cider and beer in equal amounts, fill your pint glass and enjoy!

• 2 oz Witch’s Broom  
• 1oz Campari
• 1oz sweet vermouth
• Club soda
• Dried cinnamon apple slice for garnish

Pour Witch’s Broom into rocks glass with ice. Add vermouth and Campari, stir gently, then top with club soda. Add garnish.

• 3 oz Temperance Chérie
• 2 oz grapefruit juice
• 3 tsp fresh lime juice
• 3 tsp Sea Cider Rumrunner cider jelly
• 2 tsp star anise syrup
• Lemon zest
• Candied grapefruit chip for garnish

In a shaker, combine grapefruit juice, lime juice, cider jelly, star anise syrup, and lemon zest. Shake gently, then strain into flute glass.

Slowly top with Temperance Chérie to maintain effervescence. Garnish with grapefruit chip and serve immediately.

• 1 oz Black Applejack Fortified Cider
• 2 oz gin
• 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 oz honey
• Club soda, chilled
• Blackberries for garnish

Add Black Applejack, gin , lemon juice and honey to a cocktail shaker with ice, shake until well chilled. Strain into a glass with ice, top up with club soda. Garnish with fresh blackberries.

• 2 oz Bittersweet
• 3 dashes aromatic bitters
• 1 tsp water
• Pinch of demerara sugar
• Orange slices for garnish

Stir water, demerara sugar, and bitters together in a mixing glass or cocktail shaker until the sugar is nearly dissolved. Fill the mixing glass or cocktail shaker with ice, add Bittersweet cider, and stir until well-chilled. Pour through a strainer into a rocks glass with ice.

Garnish with orange slices.

• 4 oz Temperance Eden
• 1 tbsp simple syrup
• 1/2 lime, cut in to wedges
• 6-10 mint leaves

In a sturdy glass, gently muddle the lime wedges and simple syrup to release the citrus juice. Clap the mint leaves between your hands to release the oils, then add to the glass. Press gently for approx 30-60 seconds, being careful not to over-crush the mint.

Fill the glass with ice, then pour in Temperance Eden. Stir gently, and add a mint sprig and/or lime slices for garnish.

• 3oz Ginger Perry
• 1oz Pimm’s No 1
• Splash of lime juice 
• 1 orange slice
• 2 strawberries
• 2 cucumber slices
• 2 fresh mint sprigs

Add all ingredients to a tall glass with ice, stir gently. Add garnish and serve!

• 1 oz Raspberry Anne Fortified Cider
• 3 oz Kings & Spies cider, Prosecco or champagne

Pour the Raspberry Anne into a champagne flute, and top with sparkling alcohol of your choice. Garnish with raspberry and/or mint leaves.