Longer days, sunny skies: change your summer cocktail with these gin cocktail recipes. Above, the Melontini, gin and Midori melon liqueur.
August 2007
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Summer Gin Cocktail Recipes
Gin Drink + Fresh Fruit = Fresh Ideas
Summer can be tough: There are friends to see, beaches to visit and food to be grilled. All those tasks can be stressful, so so take the edge off with a gin drink—not the regular old vodka or rum cocktail. These summer gin cocktail recipes are courtesy of Martin Miller’s Gin.
Aloha
- 1 ounce gin
- ½ ounce crème de cassis
- 1 ounce pineapple juice
- Shake with ice and strain into a
martini glass
- Garnish with a pineapple wedge
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Gin Mojito
- 2 ounces gin
- 1 ounce lime juice
- 8-10 mint leaves
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- Splash simple syrup
- Apple juice
- Muddle mint and sugar in glass; add
everything else but the apple juice;
fill with crushed ice; add the apple
juice
- Garnish with mint sprigs
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Melon-tini
- 1 ounce gin
- 1 ounce Midori melon liqueur
- 1 ounce white cranberry juice
- Shake with ice and pour into a
martini glass
- Garnish with watermelon and
honeydew melon balls arranged on
a toothpick or a skewer
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Soho Sunset
- 1 ounce gin
- 1 ounce white peach liqueur
- 1 ounce orange juice
- 1 ounce cranberry juice
- Shake with ice and strain into a
chilled cocktail glass
- Garnish with an orange wedge
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North Sea Breeze
- 2 ounces gin
- 3 ounces lychee juice
- 3 ounces grapefruit juice
- Garnish with a lime wedge
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Very Berry Martini
- 2 ounces gin
- 3/4 ounce crème de cassis
- ½ ounce grenadine
- Shake with ice and strain into a
martini glass
- Garnish with fresh berries on a
skewer
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