5 gin cocktail recipes to stir this World Gin Day

Saturday 12 June is the perfect excuse to have a gin and tonic to celebrate World Gin Day.

This special day marks the celebration a delicious spirit.

Locally the gin craze has exceeded many expectations, with many local craft gins taking full advantage of an eager market willing to support local and buy gin.

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Courtesy of Truman & Orange, they have provided the best and favourite gin cocktails to make, including a non-alcoholic option.

So raise a few glasses, take out your shakers, strainers and even your citrus juicer to make these quick and easy gin cocktails.

Pomplemo Gimlet

Ingredients

• 50ml Ginato Pompelmo
• 5ml Pink Grapefruit Juice
• 5ml Lemon Juice
• 5ml Sugar Syrup
• 5ml Lime Cordial

How to

1. Add ice to rocks glass with all ingredients
2. Stir and garnish with pink grapefruit wedge

Seedlip Garden Booch (non-alcoholic)

Ingredients

• 50 ml Seedlip Garden
• Ice chunks or cubes
• Passionfruit kombucha
• Mint leaves

Pour Seedlip over ice and top up with kombucha and garnish with mint.

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Aviation Rasberry Fizz

Ingredients

• 50ml Aviation Gin
• 25ml raspberry shrub
• 15ml beetroot juice
• 20ml lemon juice
• 20ml egg white
• Top with Fever-Tree tonic

Method: Hard dry-shake, wet-shake and strai

Brooklyn Bees Knees

Ingredients

• 50ml Brooklyn Gin
• 20ml Lemon Juice
• 20ml Honey Syrup
• Shake gin, lemon juice and honey syrup with ice and serve in a rocks glass with a slice of lemon

Cape Fynbos Creation

Ingredients 

• 50ml Abstinence Cape Fynbos
• Fever-Tree tonic water
• Lemon peel
• Fresh berries

Method:

Pour the Abstinence over ice blocks, top with tonic water (we recommend Fever Tree) and garnish with lemon peel and a few berries.