Cocktails

Ingredients: 5-6 strawberries (frozen or fresh)⁣ 5-6 basil leaves⁣ 30mL Ginger Ale Syrup⁣ 30mL vodka (optional)⁣ Soda or sparkling water⁣ Lime for garnish⁣ Method: Put strawberries and basil in the bottom of a glass – but save a bit back for garnish. Add syrup and vodka (or just syrup – this works well without the vodka too!), then muddle it all together with a rolling pin. Add ice, then top up with soda water and stir. Garnish with strawberries, basil and lime.

Ingredients: 30mL Raspberry & Lemon⁣⁣ Syrup 30mL gin⁣⁣ 10mL lemon juice⁣⁣ Soda or sparkling water⁣⁣ Frozen raspberries⁣⁣ Lemon, Rosemary⁣⁣ Method:Put syrup, gin and lemon juice in a glass. Add ice and raspberries. Top up with soda water and stir.⁣ Garnish with raspberries, lemon slices, and rosemary (or whatever herbs you have handy in the garden). Cheers!

Ingredients: 45ml Hendricks Gin 60ml Hibiscus Soda Syrup 10ml Lemon Juice 10ml Honey or Honey syrup Cucumber, thinly sliced length-ways 1x Pinch of Chilli Fresh mint & lemon twist garnish Crushed ice Method: Wrap cucumber around outside of a rocks glass. Fill with crushed ice. Build ingredients over ice. Garnish with mint and lemon. Recipe thanks to Charley Noble.

  Ingredients: 15ml Six Barrel Soda Co. Celery Tonic 30ml Absolut vodka 120ml Tomato juice 10ml Lemon juice
 ¼ teaspoon horseradish sauce 
Hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce to taste Dill pickle garnish Cucumber, Celery, Lemon garnish Method:Fill a tall glass with ice and set aside. Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker along with ice, and shake gently. Strain into the glass. Garnish. Recipe thanks to Pickle & Pie, Wellington.