Festive Cocktail Recipes from Bombay Sapphire

Hosting Christmas this year with no clue what to do for drinks? Fear not, Bombay Sapphire have you covered with their scrumptious cocktails to please your friends and loved ones for Christmas.

Mulled Collins

Ingredients:

50ml Mulled Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru Gin* 20ml Fresh Lemon Juice 25ml Monin Sugar Syrup Soda Water

Method:

Mix first three ingredients in a highball glass, and half fill with cubed ice Top up two thirds with soda water, and add more fresh ice Mix and then garnish with a lemon wheel

Clementine Spiced Mule

Ingredients:

50ml Bombay Sapphire Gininfused with clementines* 25ml Fresh Lime Juice 15ml Monin Ginger Syrup 15ml Monin Cinnamon Syrup Ginger Beer

Method:

Mix all ingredients, apart from the ginger beer, in a highball glass, and fill two thirds with cubed ice Top two thirds with ginger beer and fresh ice Garnish with a lime wedge

Elevated serve: Wrap a kitchen towel around the cube ice and, using a rolling pin, brake up the ice into smaller shards. For a final touch, grate fresh cinnamon on top of the drink before serving.

*Clementine Infused Gin:  Peel 2 clementines (removing as much pith as possible) and infusing in 250ml gin. Leave to infused for a minimum of 2 hours.

Festive Negroni

Ingredients:

30ml Bombay Sapphire infused with coffee and raspberries* 30ml Martini Rosso Sweet Vermouth 30ml Bitter aperitif (e.g. Martini Riserva Bitter/Campari)

Method:

Mix all three ingredients in a mixing glass and fill with cubed ice Stir to integrate the flavours Strain into a rocks glass filled with cubed ice Garnish with raspberry fruit leather**

*Coffee and raspberry infused Bombay Sapphire: For a Negroni batch 15g coffee beans and 100g raspberries – leave to infused for five hours (more for a more intense infusion), then strain into a bottle. **Raspberry fruit leather: Separate the beans from the raspberries. Weigh the raspberries and blend with 20% sugar until it makes a paste. Spread on a baking sheet, place in the oven and cook on the lowest setting (approx.. 50 degrees for approx. 5 hours). Allow to cool, then cut or tear into shapes.

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