Recipes: Gin cocktails for that mid-week break

Gin is a favourite when it comes to cocktails. While we've all tried the classics - read: Negroni, Tom Collins, White Lady, French 75, Gimlet - gin is the ideal spirit when it comes to experimenting with flavours.

But this week, skip the regular and give fun gin drinks a shot:

The BT Signature Serve

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Ingredients
Beefeater Dry: 50 ml
Tonic water: 150 ml
Ice - cubes or hand-chipped
Wheel of lemon
Wheel of orange

Method
- Pour 1 part Beefeater Dry gin and add 3 parts premium tonic water in a gin goblet or a highball glass
- Add ice till the glass is half-full, then and add a wheel of fresh orange to complement the bitter orange notes found in Beefeater Dry
- Top up with more ice and finish with a wheel of lemon to complement the citrus botanicals in the gin, and for that fresh zing

White Lady

Ingredients
Beefeater Dry: 40 ml
Cointreau: 20 ml
Fresh lemon juice: 20 ml
White of one fresh egg (optional)*

Garnish
Lemon twist

Method
- Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker, fill with ice cubes and shake hard
- Strain (to remove ice chips) into a chilled stemmed cocktail glass
- Add a twist of lemon then discard the peel. *Pasteurised egg white may be used

Martini K-Ya
Glass: Cocktail / coupette

Ingredients
Beefeater Dry: 40 ml
Dolin de Chambery Dry Vermouth: 10 ml

Garnish
Thick rice cracker topped with mascarpone and a fine drizzle of runny honey. Lemon twist (optional)

Method
- Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass and stir together to chill and dilute to release flavours and aromas
- Strain into a chilled stemmed cocktail glass
- Garnish with lemon twist
- Serve with rice cracker with mascarpone and honey on the side on a small plate or board

(Recipe courtesy: Beefeater gin)

World Whisky Day: Give An Interesting Twist To Your Favourite Drink With These Recipes

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Whether you like your poison on the rocks or adulterated, you don't really need to wait for World Whisky Day to celebrate the smoothness and refinement of a good malt. But it's good reason to do so, nonetheless.

So this Whisky Day, we got the experts to share their favourite cocktail recipes.

From the cinnamon spice and caramel flavour of a whisky tiramisu to the sweet nuttiness of orgeat syrup and bitters in a new twist on a whisky sour, there's something for everyone.

Whether you like your poison on the rocks or adulterated, you don't really need to wait for World Whisky Day to celebrate the smoothness and refinement of a good malt. But it's good reason to do so..

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Ingredients:
Glenmorangie Original: 50 ml
Freshly squeezed lemon juice: 25 ml
Elderflower cordial: 10 ml
Orgeat syrup: 10 ml
Angostura Bitters: 1 dash
Garnish: Flamed orange zest

Method
- Take ice cubes in a cocktail shaker, add all the ingredients and shake
- Double strain into a glass and finish with flamed orange zest

(Courtesy: Glenmorangie)

Ingredients: Glenmorangie Original: 50 ml Freshly squeezed lemon juice: 25 ml Elderflower cordial: 10 ml Orgeat syrup: 10 ml Angostura Bitters: 1 dash Garnish: Flamed orange zest Method - Take ice c..

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Ingredients

Grant’s Family Reserve: 50 ml
Champagne:100 ml
Sugar Cube (soaked in bitters): 1

Method
- Take the sugar cube in a Champagne flute
- Add whisky and top with Champagne
- Garnish with a lemon twist

(Courtesy: Grant's Whisky)

Ingredients Grant’s Family Reserve: 50 ml Champagne:100 ml Sugar Cube (soaked in bitters): 1 Method - Take the sugar cube in a Champagne flute - Add whisky and top with Champagne - Garnish with a l..

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Ingredients
Monkey Shoulder: 50 ml
Aam Panna: 10 ml
Sugar: 5 ml
Lime: 15 ml
Glass: Old fashioned
Ice

Method
- Add all ingredients into an old fashioned glass
- Add crushed/cracked ice
- Mix thoroughly with a swizzle
- Top up the drink with more ice
- Garnish with a mango fan


(Courtesy: Monkey Shoulder)

Ingredients Monkey Shoulder: 50 ml Aam Panna: 10 ml Sugar: 5 ml Lime: 15 ml Glass: Old fashioned Ice Method - Add all ingredients into an old fashioned glass - Add crushed/cracked ice - Mix thorough..

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Ingredients
Glenfiddich 12: 60 ml
Dark chocolate sauce: 15 ml
Single cream: 15 ml
Gung Giri estate strong black coffee: 15 ml
Caramel syrup: 10 ml

Method
- Fill a shaker with ice. Pour in all of the ingredients and shake well
- Strain and serve straight up in a coupe glass
- Sprinkle with orange peel and cinnamon


(Courtesy: Angad Singh Gandhi, Brand Ambassador, Glenfiddich India)

Ingredients Glenfiddich 12: 60 ml Dark chocolate sauce: 15 ml Single cream: 15 ml Gung Giri estate strong black coffee: 15 ml Caramel syrup: 10 ml Method - Fill a shaker with ice. Pour in all of the..

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