Summer cocktails: The 4 recipes you need to try



summer cocktails
August 4, 2017
Glass pitcher filled with red sangria, garnished with raspberries and orange slices, with two red and white striped straws.

The Dingle Fruit Salad Cocktail

INGREDIENTS:

  • 70cl Dingle Original Gin
  • 35cl Mineral Water
  • 12cl Creme de Framboise
  • 12cl Creme de Cassis
  • 35cl Lemon Juice
  • 12cl Sugar Syrup
  • 75ml Orgeat Syrup
  • 1 punnet raspberries
  • 2 oranges sliced in half moons
  • 2 lemons sliced in wheels
  • 75cl Brut Champagne

METHOD:

1. Combine all ingredients except champagne in a good-sized serving punch bowl and refrigerate for 4-5 hours.

2. To serve, add large ice chunks and top with the champagne

3. Gently stir and ladle out with fruit.

4. Serve immediately

Dingle Original Gin : 70cl | RRP from £32.50 | Stockists include boroughwines.co.uk, masterofmalt.co.uk, ginfestival.com, thewhiskyexchange.com

Two glasses of pink strawberry drink with ice, placed on a table with strawberries around them.

Gordon's Pink Gin Fizz

INGREDIENTS:

  • 50ml Gordon's Pink Gin
  • 50ml lemonade
  • 25ml prosecco
  • Ice

METHOD:

  1. Fill a large wine glass with ice and top with 50ml Gordon's Pink Gin
  2. Add 50ml lemonade and 25ml prosecco
  3. Serve immediately
A bottle of Alula Coconut Rum next to a tropical drink in a bar setting.

Aluna Piña Colada

INGREDIENTS:

  • 50ml Aluna Coconut
  • 75ml pineapple juice
  • 75ml coconut water frozen in cubes (approx 3 standard cubes)
  • Pineapple leaves and wedge to garnish (optional)

METHOD:

  1. Freeze pineapple juice and coconut water ice cubes.
  2. Blend frozen coconut water ice cubes, pineapple juice and Aluna Coconut.
  3. Pour into a chilled hurricane glass.
  4. Garnish with pineapple leaves and a pineapple wedge.
Two green cocktails with a bottle of Malibu rum in the background.

Matcha Coconut Martini

INGREDIENTS:

  • 400ml Malibu Rum
  • 50 ml White Chocolate and Coconut Liquer
  • ½ tsp Matcha Powder
  • 50 ml Lime Juice
  • 15 ml Egg White

METHOD:

  1. Whisk Matcha with Malibu.
  2. Add Remaining ingredients and shake over ice.
  3. Strain into a glass. Garnish with white chocolate powder, desiccated coconut and gold leaf.
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