Cocktails

TRY SOME OF OUR RECIPES

Rhidorroch Distillery believe that you can create a drink with any mixer, garnish and quantity of gin that you enjoy.

There are no rules, no judgements, and no lines that cant be crossed.
However here are some of the distilleries tipples that may tickle your taste buds!

GOOD OLD G ‘N’ T

50ml Gin
150ml Tonic
Ice
Garnish: Lemon

How to make it:

Pour the gin into a glass
Then add in the tonic water
Top the glass up with a couple blocks of ice and a lemon (squeeze it as it goes in)
Stir for a bit to spread the flavour around taste.

Summer Isles Sunset

250ml Gin
50ml Elderflower Cordial
500ml Cloudy Apple Juice
500ml Soda
A handful of fresh or frozen Raspberries
Ice
Garnish: Apple slices

How to make it:

In a jug or bowl mix all the ingredients. Mix with a spoon a leave to chill for a couple of minuets.
When ready to serve, fill the glasses with a little more ice if you wish and add cocktail mixture.
Finish with an apple slice and if you like it sweeter add little more elderflower cordial.

For one cocktail divide all ingredients by 5

West Coast Mojito

50ml Gin
3 Lime Wedges
15ml Sugar Syrup (to make sugar syrup dissolve 25g caster sugar in 35ml water over a low heat and leave to cool)
4 Big Mint Leaves (hit them between your palms to get the flavours out)
Soda
Garnish: Mint Leaf

How to make it:

Make your sugar syrup and put in fridge or freezer to cool.
Add your gin, lime wedges, and sugar syrup with three mint leaves, to a tall glass, and mix together.
Fill with a good amount of crushed ice and top up with soda then mix again.
Garnish the cocktail with a sprig of fresh mint.

Hot Toddy

50ml Gin
1 Slice Fresh Lemon
1 Slice Fresh Orange
180ml Hot Water
1 ½ tsp Honey
Garnish: Slice of lemon or Cinnamon Stick

How to make it:

Tip the gin and honey into a thick glass or mug.
Add the lemon and orange, squeezing in the juice, give it all a mix.
Pour in the water and mix well until honey is dissolved.
Garnish with a cinnamon stick or lemon.

Highland Snapper

50ml Gin
75ml tomato juice
10ml lemon juice
5ml Worcestershire sauce
2 Dashes Tabasco
4 Basil Leaves
½ tsp Sugar Syrup
Garnish: 1 strip of celery and a pinch of sea salt

How to make it:

Pour all the ingredients into a shaker (if you don't have a shaker a water bottle, protein bottle etc will do) with a couple of handfuls of ice, and ‘throw’ the cocktail until chilled. Taste and add a little more tabasco if you want.
Pour into a glass filled with fresh ice.
Garnish with a tomato slice, celery ribbon and salt