East Coast Distillery

Raspberry Collins

simon burrows — Mon, 29 May 2023 20:19:32 +0000

A refreshing sweet twist on the classic.

What you will need

50ml Raspberry Gin
25ml lemon balm sugar syrup
10ml Lemon Juice
A few raspberries
Soda water or prosecco
Ice
Cocktail Shaker or Jar with a lid

What to do:

Pop all the ingredients, bar the soda water into a cocktail shaker or jar
Shake, shake it
Strain into your ice filled glass
Top with soda water or prosecco, if you are feeling extra fancy.
Garnish with a few raspberries

We made our sugar syrup with 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water and 1 cup of fresh lemon balm leaves. Pop in a pan and gently bring to the boil. After a minute the sugar should be dissolved. Take off the heat and leave for 30 minutes and then pour through a sieve. It will keep in the fridge once cool for a week and is nice just with soda water too for a refreshing drink.

Enjoy

ChinChin!

Marjorie’s Mojito

simon burrows — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:58:38 +0000

A refreshing (and dangerously innocent) tasting cocktail replacing Mint with Basil to compliment the earthy plum sweetness.

What you will need (2 servings)

Ice
Plum Gin (Plum and I)
Sugar syrup (50:50) hot water and sugar dissolved and left to cool
Basil leaves
Soda Water or Prosecco
Lime Juice

What to do:

Muddle a handful of basil leaves in a highball glass
Fill glass three quarters full with ice
Add 50ml Plum Gin
Add 25ml Sugar Syrup
Add a dash of lime juice
Top up with Soda water or Prosecco

Enjoy

ChinChin!

Espresso Martini

simon burrows — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:58:02 +0000

The perfect pick me up or very simple yet eye catching cocktail to make for friends and family.

The longer you shake this one the thicker that signature crema layer will be.

What you will need (2 servings)

100ml Coffee Vodka Liqueur
50ml simple sugar syrup
50ml cold espresso coffee (if you like that extra caffeine)
Ice
Cocktail shaker or a jar with lid
Coffee beans to garnish
Two martini style glasses

What to do:

Add the Liqueur, sugar syrup, coffee and ice to your shaker or jar
Shake for as long as you can wait. (The longer you shake the better it will be)
Strain into your glasses
Wait for that lovely crema layer to settle
Add three coffee beans to garnish

Enjoy

ChinChin!

Summer Love-15 Cocktail

simon burrows — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:22:50 +0000

Summer Love-15 Cocktail

Our Summer Love-15 Cocktail, it evokes the flavours of strawberries and cream, made using our Strawberry and Raspberry Gin and locally produced @shakenudder milkshake.
Share a tray with friends, kick back and enjoy the summer.

Ingredients (1 serving)

50ml Afternoon Tea Gin
25ml Fresh Lemon Juice
50ml Shaken Udder strawberry or vanilla milkshake
Cream Soda
Strawberries and cracked black pepper

Method:

Pour the Gin and Lemon juice into a Cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake to cool.
Strain into a mixing glass and stir in milkshake of choice.
Add to glass, top with cream soda and garnish with strawberry slices and a crack of black pepper.

Easy Peasy!

ChinChin!

Chocolate Negroni

simon burrows — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:50:54 +0000

Chocolate Negroni

This chocolate version of the classic Negroni really releases the orange notes in the Campari Bitters with that rich, sweet Vermouth a perfect partner to the classic juniper and citrus in the gin.

Enjoy in company

Ingredients (1 serving)

30ml Tide’s Fortune Essex Dry Gin
25ml Punt E Mes or other Vermouth
30ml Campari Bitters Liqueur
8ml Creme de Cacao
6 drops Chocolate Bitters
Lemon or Orange and dark chocolate the garnish

Method:

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice filled Old Fashioned Glass or tumbler.

Easy Peasy!

ChinChin!

Juliet & Romeo

simon burrows — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:12:01 +0000

Juliet & Romeo

This is our take on the original Juliet & Romeo. We have switched out the mint for rose geranium for an extra sweet touch.

Ingredients (1 serving)

50ml Tide’s Fortune Elder Pear Dry Gin
15ml Sugar Syrup
Juice of two limes
Small pinch of salt
3 Slices of peeled cucumber
6 Rose geranium leaves (or mint of basil)
Ice

Method:

Mash cucumber in cocktail shaker and then add other ingredients. Shake and strain into chilled glass.

ChinChin!

Pink Passion Negroni

simon burrows — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:05:13 +0000

Pink Passion Negroni

What could be more romantic than our take on the classic Negroni. Substitute pink gin for our naturally fruity Elder Pear Dry Gin and use a pink vermouth. We really love Lillet Rose in this one with its berry, orange blossom and grapefruit aromas.

Love is…

Ingredients (1 serving)

50ml Tide’s Fortune Elder Pear Dry Gin
35ml Lillet Rose
15ml Aperol
Juice of half a Passion Fruit
Pink Grapefruit and fresh basil to serve
Ice

Method:

Place the Gin, Lillet rose and Aperol in a glass with a handful of ice
Add the juice from half a passion fruit
Stir until the glass feels cold
Garnish with a wedge of grapefruit and a basil leaf

ChinChin!

Gin Old Fashioned

simon burrows — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:58:08 +0000

Gin Old Fashioned

Ingredients (1 serving)

50ml Tide’s Fortune Essex Dry Gin
20ml sugar syrup (equal parts sugar and water heated and dissolved and left to cool
3 drops of Orange Bitters
Ice cubes
One large ice cube
Orange Peel
Old Fashioned or short whisky glass
Boston Glass or Manhattan Cocktail shaker
Stirrer
Strainer

Method:

Prepare a big ice cube in advance using a plastic beaker or large plastic ice cube mould.
Mix the Orange Angostura Bitters, sugar syrup, and gin in a glass or cocktail shaker half filled with ice.
Stir vigorously 12 times and strain into a short old-fashioned glass over a large ice cube
twist the orange peel over the drink and add to the glass.
Put your feet up and have rest.

ChinChin!

Cupid’s Hope Cocktail (Valentine’s Day)

simon burrows — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:21:20 +0000

Cupid’s Hope Cocktail (Valentine’s Day)

A cocktail for those who like something well balanced. The Rosemary sugar syrup offsets the sweet pear juice perfectly for a romantic long drink.

Ingredients (1 servings)

50ml Tide’s Fortune Essex Dry Gin
50ml Fresh pear juice
25ml Lemon juice
25ml Rosemary sugar syrup
Crushed Ice
Rosemary sprig to garnish
(Optional) A heart ice cube made with raspberry purée and freeze dried raspberries

Method:

To make the sugar syrup dissolve equal parts of caster sugar and water over a gentle heat.
Blanche two sprigs of Rosemary in hot water for 30 seconds
Remove the leaves and add to the sugar syrup
Blitz with a stick blender and strain into a small glass or jug.

Making the drink

Fill a tall glass with crushed ice
Mix the Gin, Pear Juice, Lemon Juice and sugar syrup in a cocktail shaker (no need to shake) and pour over the ice
Add a sprig of Rosemary to garnish and show your love with romantic ice cube or a heart shaped slice of lemon or apple.

Truly scrumptious x

Red Snapper

simon burrows — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:19:09 +0000

Red Snapper

The gin version of the classic Bloody Mary

Ingredients (1 servings)

50ml of Tide’s Fortune Gin
100ml tomato juice
25ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
6 dashes Tabasco
3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
2 pinches celery salt
2 pinches ground black pepper
1 stick of celery

Method:

Use some lemon juice to wet the rim of a glass and then dab with the black pepper and celery salt
Fill the glass with ice
Add all the all other ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into your glass
Garnish with the stick of celery

Enjoy!