As the holidays draw near, Swift + Moore has curated a list of cocktail recipes to help you get into the holiday spirit!
EDINBURGH GIN
East Coast Negroni
Ingredients:
25ml Seaside Gin
25ml Suze Liqueur
25ml Campari
3 dashes of grapefruit bitters
Sea salt and rosemary to garnish
Directions:
1. Frost the rim of the glass with rock salt and rosemary
2. Fill the glass with ice before adding all the ingredients
3. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary
Lemon and Jasmine with Cloudy Lemonade
Ingredients:
50ml Edinburgh Gin’s Lemon & Jasmine Gin
Sparkling cloudy lemonade
Lemon wheel to garnish
Directions:
1. Pour the gin into a highball glass filled with cubed ice
2. Top up with cloudy lemonade
3. Garnish with a lemon wheel
Rhubarb Mule
Ingredients:
50ml Rhubarb & Ginger Liqueur
Lime juice
Ginger ale
Fresh mint & lime twist to garnish
Directions:
1. Fill glass with crushed ice
2. Add liqueur and squeezed lime the top up with ginger ale
3. Garnish with fresh mint and lime twist
SMOKEHEAD
Smoking Cola
Ingredients:
Orange slices
Bitters
25ml Smokehead
Cola Reduction
Ice
Directions:
Slice orange peel and place it into your glass. Add the drops of bitter and pound the peel to release the flavours. Pour in the Smokehead and Cola reduction and top with ice. To add the finishing touches, light some woodchips and smoke a jug. Pour the smoke over the cocktail and enjoy.
Smoked Fashioned
Ingredients:
50ml Smokehead
4 dashes Angostura bitters
1 tsp caster sugar or 2 sugar cubes
Chiselled ice
Dark chocolate to garnish
Directions:
Put the sugar in your glass and wet it down with bitters. Crush all that together with whatever blunt instrument is handy, then rotate your glass so the sugar and bitters give it a lining. Add in some hefty ice cubes then pour over your whisky. Top it all off with the dark chocolate.
Smoked Ginger
Ingredients:
50ml Smokehead High Voltage
200ml ginger beer
25ml fresh lemon juice
Crushed root ginger
Squeezed lemon and ginger to garnish
Directions:
Chop about 2-3cm off your ginger root and peel it. Slice it finely, grate it roughly, or mash the living daylights out if out. Your call. Pour the ginger in the bottom of the glass, add a generous measure of High Voltage and chiseled chunks of ice. Then pour over some decent ginger beer. Add a slice of lemon and garnish with a sliver of ginger
Edinburgh Gin and Smokehead are both available online.
