HENDRICK’S GIN UNVEILS PERFECTLY PECULIAR GIN COCKTAILS FOR YOUR SUMMER GARDEN PARTY

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 — While the summer temperatures can often be unbearable, deliciously light and refreshing cocktails can beat the heat! A Hendrick’s Gin & Tonic on a hot day is sublime, especially when served with our signature garnish: a slice of crisp cucumber. Looking to try something new? Whether enjoyed during happy hour or while relaxing poolside on a hot day, these five recipes will keep you cool during the warmer months.

Distilled and bottled in Scotland, Hendrick’s Gin is infused with the curious, yet marvellous duet of rose & cucumber. Delectably supported by no less than 11 of the finest botanicals from the four corners of the world (if the world had corners), Hendrick’s Gin mixes easily with a variety of juices, sodas and more to create exceptional cocktails.

Our summer selection of delightful drinks feature citrusy flavours, including grapefruit, lemon, orange and cucumber, specially selected to revitalise you in the baking heat of summer. From the sweet and simple to the magnificently whimsical, these cocktails are easy to make (each having no more than four main ingredients) and utterly divine to taste.

Hendricks’s Gin & Tonic
Cucumber Lemonade
Supersonic Hendricks’s Gin & Tonic
Salty Dog
Garibaldi Spagliato

Recipes, descriptions and images for each cocktail are below:

SUMMER 2018 RECIPES

HENDRICK’S GIN & TONIC

Sublime simplicity itself. There’s a good reason the Hendrick’s Gin and Tonic, with its

cucumber garnish, is so loved. Poetry in a balloon-style glass.

1 part (50mL) Hendrick's Gin
3 parts (150mL) tonic water
3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber

Combine all ingredients in a glass filled with cubed ice. Lightly stir and serve. Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber.

CUCUMBER LEMONADE

You cannot control the behavior of wasps at a picnic, you can however ensure you have a summer drink as azure in flavor as the summer evening is long. Cucumber Lemonade brims with naughty thoughts for summers yet to be.

2 parts (50mL) Hendrick's Gin
1 part (20mL) lemon juice
1 part (20mL) sugar syrup
2 parts (50mL) soda water
3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber

Combine all ingredients in a highball filled with cubed ice. Lightly stir and serve. Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber & 1 slice of lemon.

SUPERSONIC HENDRICK’S GIN & TONIC

A refreshing twist on the classic Hendrick’s Gin & Tonic, award-winning master mixologist Rich “The Cocktail Guy” Woods invented the Supersonic to include a bracing shot of espresso, which keeps this drink on its high-flying toes.

2 parts (50mL) Hendrick’s Gin
1/16 parts (1 bar spoon) sugar syrup
1 part (25mL) fresh espresso (left to go cold)
2 parts (50mL) tonic water
3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber

Combine all ingredients in a highball filled with cubed ice. Lightly stir and serve. Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber.

SALTY DOG

The Greyhound can be easily made, even in the blasting madness of a July sun, but it lacks a certain something. That certain something is the flavorsome contrast of a salty rim, once so configured, you have the wickedly naughty Salty Dog.

1 part (50mL) Hendrick's Gin
2 parts (100mL) pink grapefruit
1/4-part (15mL) sugar syrup
1 part (50mL) soda water
Grapefruit wedge

Rim the glass with salt. Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with cubed ice. Lightly stir and serve. Garnish with a thin wedge of pink grapefruit.

GARIBALDI SPAGLIATO

The Garibaldi is forged from the alliance of Campari from Northern Italy with oranges from the south. Spagliato means 'mistaken' or 'wrong', and you'd be pretty spagliato to miss out on the mesmerizing citric vitality of this Italian masterpiece.