Pink gin cocktails to make with Still Spirits Pink Gin
Pink gin is the easy crowd pleaser at a barbecue, because it's gin with berries and a bit of sweetness behind it, and making your own on a bought spirit is a lot simpler than most people expect.
Making the gin
Still Spirits Pink Gin is a 50ml flavouring that turns a neutral spirit into a pink gin, with the juniper you'd expect from a gin and red berry fruit on top of it. You stir it into a clean neutral spirit at the rate on the pack, then give it a day or so to settle before you pour any.
Making it up on a bought neutral spirit, and vodka from the bottle shop is fine, involves no distilling and needs no licence. Distilling your own base is a different matter and needs an excise manufacturer licence from the ATO, which is a federal rule, so it's the same answer wherever you live.
Cocktails to try
Pink gin fizz
Shake about 45ml of your pink gin with the juice of half a lemon over ice, and sweeten it with a little sugar syrup to taste. Top it up with soda water in the glass. It's tart and fizzy and it goes down far too easily on a hot afternoon.
Pink gin and tonic
About 50ml over plenty of ice in a tall glass and topped with tonic. If you've got frozen berries in the freezer, a handful in with the ice looks great and keeps it cold. This is the one I'd make for a crowd, because there's nothing to measure after the first pour.
A pink negroni
Pink gin and dry vermouth in equal measure with the same again of a bitter red aperitif, stirred over ice. A slice of orange finishes it, and the berries take the edge off the bitterness a little, so it suits anyone who finds a classic negroni a bit much.
Pink gin and lemonade
The lazy one, and there's no shame in it. Pour your pink gin over ice and top it with a good lemonade. A wedge of lemon squeezed in is a nice touch if you've got one handy.
If you want to adjust it
If it's too sweet for you, blending in a little English dry gin made up the same way brings the juniper forward, and an elderflower gin does the same job if you like it floral. Keep a note of what you changed so the next batch comes out the same.
Shop related products
- Still Spirits Pink Gin 50ML. The flavouring this post is about.
- Still Spirits English Dry Gin 50ML Essence. For a drier gin to blend in.
- Still Spirits Top Shelf Elderflower Gin Spirit Flavouring 50ML. For a floral version.
- Still Spirits Premium Classic London Dry Gin. A classic gin to keep alongside it.
Did you know we also stock the Sam Willards pink gin premix and 1125ml spirit bottles in the shop. They're not on the website, so give us a ring on (08) 8536 4333 to check what's on the shelf.
- English dry gin essence, what it gives you
- Still Spirits Elderflower Gin flavouring, what it does
- How to use spirit essences at home
Not sure which gin to try next, Brewhilder will help, or have a look through the homebrew collection.
I'm a frozen berries in the glass person and I won't be talked out of it.
Candeece
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