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Gin drinks recipes

The best known gin drink is the Martini, a cocktail made with gin and dry vermouth.

Perfect Gin & Tonic

  • Get a long, tall, cold glass. Known as a Slim Jim.
  • Fill the glass with ice cubes, not just a couple in the bottom, but fill it to the brim!
  • Pour in a generous measure of gin, a double at least.
  • Top up to just below the brim with cold tonic water. The tonic will settle the ice cubes down a bit further in the glass.
  • Take a segment of lime, not a slice, and squeeze it gently into the glass, then wipe the lime segment around the brim before dropping it into the glasss.
  • Stir the drink with a swizzle stick.
  • Drink.

Today's modern 'standard' G&T, served in most pubs, contains about 25ml gin and 150ml tonic. Most connoisseurs consider this to be too weak, however, and generally buy a 'double' (ie, containing 50ml of gin). A dash of Angostura bitters may also be added to produce so-called pink gin.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Gin And Bitter Lemon

  • 1 1/2 oz Gin
  • 1/2 oz Lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp superfine Sugar
  • 4 oz Tonic water

In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a highball glass almost filled with ice cubes. Top with the tonic water.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Gin and Juice

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 2 oz Grapefruit Juice
  • 3 oz Orange Juice
  • 1 slice Lime

Measure ice into a cocktail shaker with a highball glass. Add ingredients and shake well. Pour into highball glass and garnish with a slice of lime.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Greyhound

  • 1 1/2 oz Gin
  • 5 oz Grapefruit juice

Pour ingredients into a highball glass over ice cubes. Gin based drinks should be stirred well. Vodka may be substituted for gin, if preferred.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Gin And It

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 1 oz Sweet Vermouth

Stir gin and vermouth in a cocktail glass. No ice is used in this gin based drink.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Dick Deming Martini

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 0.5 oz White wine

Mix. Pretend it's a martini. Plastic glasses are the best for this beast.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Bull's sweat

  • 1 part Sloe gin
  • 1 part Tabasco sauce

Just mix, shake and pour. Drink.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Gimlet (Correct)

  • 1 part Gin
  • 1 part Rose's Lime Juice

Fill the glass to 2/3 with ice cubes. Shake the gin and lime and pour into the glass.
Serve the drink in old-fashioned glass.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Double Brit

  • 1 oz Tanqueray Gin
  • 1 oz Single malt Scotch

Pour each ingredient into a double shot glass, they will mix by themselves. Shoot.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Lone Tree Cocktail

  • 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
  • 1 1/2 oz Gin

Stir ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Fifty-fifty Cocktail

  • 1 1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
  • 1 1/2 oz Gin

Stir ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

In and Out Martini

  • 1 splash Dry Vermouth
  • 4 fingers Gin

Pack Cocktail glass with ice, add a splash of dry vermouth. While glass chills, add 4 fingers of Gin in a mixer of ice. Throw away ice/vermouth in cocktail glass then strain in Gin.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Dirty Martini

Dirty Martini is the metropolitan cocktail of choice in 2011. The true form of Dirty Martini contains only:

  • Gin
  • a shiver of Vermouth
  • a green Olive

A drop of olive brine makes Dirty Martini dirty. The drink of 2011 comes stirred, not shaken, in plenty of ice and served sraight up. Dirty Martini is an excellent beverage.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

Good Times

In a highball glass, add ice cubes,

  • 50 ml Beefeater Gin
  • 75 ml cloudy apple juice

Garnish with mint spring and lime wedge.

Recipe type: Gin Drinks

The best known of all gin drinks is the Martini, a cocktail made with gin and dry vermouth...