Cocktails
All of these cocktails are on the strong side - when you work in a distillery you like to taste the spirit - don’t be ashamed to add slightly less alcohol to taste!! Why not try a cocktail class in our underground bar?
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Lonsdale
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, Tea spoon of honey, Handful of fresh basil leaves, 75ml apple juice
Instructions:
Put all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with plenty of ice. Shake well, strain into a coupe glass, garnish with sprig of basil.Elderflower Collins
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, 50ml lemon juice, Splash of sugar syrup or raw honey to taste, 75ml sparkling Elderflower
Instructions:
Muddle together in a high ball glasses, with plenty of ice.Bramble
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, 20ml creme de Mure, 25ml lemon juice, Splash of sugar syrup or raw honey to taste
Instructions:
Mix well in cocktail shaker with plenty of ice. Strain into a Whisky tumbler, serve with ice and a garnish of fresh blackberries.French 75
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, 25ml lemon juice, Splash of sugar syrup or raw honey to taste
Instructions:
Mix together and pour into a champagne flute, top up with champagne or sparkling wine.Negroni
How it's made
Ingredients:
Equal parts: Durham Gin, Apperol, Sweet Vermouth, preferably Spanish
Instructions:
Muddle together, serve in a whisky tumbler over ice, garnish with a twist of orange.Martini
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, 10ml Dry Vermouth, preferably Noilly Prat
Instructions:
Shake the Gin and Vermouth together in a cocktail shaker, strain into a Martini glasses. Garnish with a twist of lemon or an olive. If you like your Martini dryer add less Vermouth. If you like your Martini very dry wipe the rim of the Martini Glass with Vermouth and fill with very cold Gin shaken in a cocktail shaker with ice.English Garden
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, Splash of elderflower cordial, Juice of a Lemon, Sprig of mint, Apple juice
Instructions:
Muddle the gin, elderflower, lemon and mint in a high ball glass. Add ice, and top up with apple juice. Garnish with cucumber.Dog Sled
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, 25ml Birch Liqueur, 50ml grapefruit juice
Instructions:
Wet the rim of a high ball glass and coat with salt. Mix together the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and mix well. Fill the glass half with ice, strain in the liquid.Mango Mohito
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Mango Gin, Juice of 2 limes, Sprig of Fresh Mint, Brown Sugar
Instructions:
Muddle together the ingredients in a high ball glass to lightly bruise the mint. Add plenty of ice, top up with club soda and a sprig of mint.Mango Basil Smash
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Mango Gin, Bunch of basil leaves, Splash of sugar syrup or raw honey to taste, Juice of a lemon
Instructions:
Add the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with plenty of ice and shake well. Strain into an ice filled Whisky tumbler, serve with plenty of ice and a spring of basil.Raspberry Cosmo
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Vodka, Handful of defrosted frozen raspberries, 25ml Contreau, Juice of a lemon
Instructions:
Shake ingredients together in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into highball glass with plenty of ice. Garnish with raspberries.Vegan “Russian”
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Vodka, 25ml cold coffee - allow the coffee to cool, and add brown sugar to taste, 25ml plant based vegan cream
Instructions:
Mix the ingredients together in a Whisky glass, serve over ice.Watermelon cooler
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Vodka, 2 big slices watermelon, rind and seeds removed
Instructions:
Add the ingredients into a blender until smooth. Pour into a high ball glass with plenty of ice. Garnish with black pepper. You can make the same recipe with a cucumber, skinned and seeded.Cask and Stormy
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Cask Aged Gin, 100ml Ginger Beer, Juice of a lime
Instructions:
Muddle together all the ingredients in a high ball glass with plenty of ice, garnish with a wedge of lime.Manhatten
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Cask Aged Gin, 25ml Sweet Vermouth preferably Spanish, Dash of bitters
Instructions:
Muddle together in a Whisky tumbler over ice.Cask Sidecar
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Cask Aged Gin, Splash of Maple Syrup, Juice of 2 lemons
Instructions:
Wet the rim of a whisky tumbler and frost with brown sugar. Mix together the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake will with plenty of ice. Strain into the tumbler and add more ice. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.Cask and Tonic
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Cask Aged Gin, Splash of old fashioned bitters, 125ml Tonic Water
Instructions:
Rinse a copa glass with the old fashioned bitters. Add the Cask Aged Gin, plenty of ice and a big segment of orange. Top up with Tonic.Sloe and lemonade
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Sloe Gin, Juice of a Lemon, 100ml old fashioned cloudy
lemonadeInstructions:
Mix together in high ball glass with plenty of ice, garnish with some a slice of lemon.Sloegroni
How it's made
Ingredients:
Equal parts Durham Sloe Gin, Apperol and Sweet Vermouth.
Instructions:
Muddle together in a Whisky tumbler with ice, garnish with a slice of orange.Sloe 75
How it's made
Ingredients:
25ml Durham Sloe Gin, Frozen Blackberries, Champagne or Sparkling Wine
Instructions:
Pour the Sloe gin into a champagne flute, and add the frozen blackberries. Top up with Champagne or sparkling wine.Sloe with no name
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Sloe Gin, Splash of Creme de Mur, 100ml Apple Juice
Instructions:
Mix the ingredients together with plenty of ice in a high ball glass, garnish with a blackberry. We don’t really have a name for it, so you can give it your own name and pretend you invented it!!Gin Rickey
How it's made
Ingredients:
50ml Durham Gin, Juice of 2 limes, Club Soda
Instructions:
Mix together the gin and lime juice in a highball glass, add plenty of ice and top up with club soda. Garnish with lime wedge.- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
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