4 exiting gin cocktails you can make to celebrate World Gin Day

If you were looking to wind down this weekend by putting your cocktail kit to use, we've got the perfect recipes for you to get you started. To mark World Gin Day on June 12, we've put together cocktail recipes that—quite appropriately—use gins from around the world. 

Monkey Mai Tai

• 40ml Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin
• 10ml velvet falernum
• 10ml dry curaçao
• 10ml orgeat syrup
• 10ml overproof rum
• 20ml lime juice
• Mint sprig

Add the Monkey 47, velvet falernum, curaçao, lime juice and orgeat into a shaker with crushed ice and shake lightly (about three seconds). Pour into the glass and float the rum over top. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Beefeater Fresh Martini

• 45ml Beefeater Gin (Dry or 24)
• 10ml Lillet Blanc
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• Orange twist

Add all ingredients into mixing glass. Add ice and stir until chilled. Fine strain into glass. Garnish with orange twist and serve.

Malfy con Arancia e Miele Sour

• 50ml Malfy con Arancia
• 15ml lemon juice
• 15ml blood orange juice
• 20ml honey 
• egg white
• 3 drops cardamom bitters
• orange wedge

In a cocktail shaker, shake the first five ingredients without ice to create a foamy texture. Then shake with ice and strain into a chilled glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge.

The Kyoto Distillery Apple Custard

• 50ml The Kyoto Distillery Edition G
• 15ml apple juice
• A few drops vanilla extract
• Dehydrate apple slice

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain and pour into a chilled glass. Garnish with the apple slice and serve.

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