Cocktails

  When we tasted the new Lavender & Rosemary Hot Honey from our friends at Apostle Hot Sauce, the cocktail inspiration started flowing! Here's our recipe for a Spicy Bees Knees... Ingredients: 20ml Lemonade Soda Syrup 10ml Hot Honey 15ml lemon juice 60ml dry gin Ice Method: Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with a scoop of ice Shake for 10-15 seconds, then pour into a coup through a sieve Garnish with a slice of fresh orange or lemon

Make this refreshing and zingy cocktail with our Cola Six Soda Syrup... Ingredients: 30mL Rye whiskey 30ml Cola Six Syrup Angostura Bitters Fresh lemon (or lime) Soda water Method: Over ice, add the whiskey, Cola Six syrup and bitters. Top up with soda water. Squeeze over the fresh lemon juice and add the lemon itself to the glass.

Local cocktail legend Peter Lowry at The Library has kindly shared the recipe for 'Through the Looking Glass' - a classic champagne cocktail, brightened up with a fruity, floral twist... Ingredients: 10mls Southward x The Library Bramble Gin (or sloe gin) 15mls Six Barrel Hibiscus Soda Syrup  10mls tangelo liqueur (or Cointreau)   Chocolate bitters (or Angostura bitters) Sugar cube Prosecco  Orange rind  Method: Dash bitters on sugar cube and place in the bottom of your glass Add gin, Hibiscus syrup and tangelo liqueur  Top up with prosecco Garnish with orange rind

  Arborist are featuring our Elderflower Soda Syrup in their Wellington On A Plate cocktail this year. They've kindly shared the recipe with us... Ingredients: 45mls Bond Store Kawakawa Gin 20mls Lemon Juice  20mls Sugar syrup  Handful of cucumber  8 mint leaves Six Barrel Elderflower Soda Syrup Soda Water Ice Method: Muddle cucumber, mint and lemon juice in Boston shaker Add gin, sugar syrup and ice, then shake Pour over ice in tall glass Top up with Six Barrel Elderflower soda (mixed 1 part syrup to 5 parts soda water) Garnish with mint and cucumber