As we continue to celebrate Heritage Month, it’s the perfect time to share a fresh and earthy Flowstone Gin cocktail with friends and family.
September marks the beginning of Spring and it’s also Heritage Month so we have ample reasons to cheer. What better way than with a refreshing cocktail crafted in the place where human life began, right here in the heart of our beautiful country?
Try these delicious spring cocktails and raise a toast to friends, family and better days.
Dirty Donga Martini
Ingredients:
60ml Flowstone Bushwillow Gin
Vermouth
2-3 skewered pimento olives, to taste
Truffle-oil mister, to finish
Ice
Method:
Add your gin and vermouth to taste before stirring over ice and decanting into your martini glass, add olives for the iconic finish. Then mist the top of the cocktail with just one or two fine sprays of truffle oil.
The Greyhound
Ingredients:
60ml Flowstone Marula Gin
120ml grapefruit juice
1 tsp simple syrup
Ice
Method:
Add 3-4 ice cubes to a cocktail shaker. Pour gin, grapefruit juice, and (optionally) 1 teaspoon of simple syrup into the shaker and shake well.
If you want your Greyhound Cocktail without ice, which is the classic method, pour it into a martini or cocktail glass and serve. If you prefer ice, pour over a small glass half-filled with ice.
The Gimlet
Ingredients:
70ml Wild Cucumber gin
50ml lime juice, freshly squeezed
50ml simple syrup
Lime wheel
Ice
Method:
Add the gin, lime juice and simple syrup to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Pair it with your favourite meal, Serve and enjoy!
Sustainably hand harvested, with evocative names including African butterfly bush (Buddleja salviifolia), blinkblaar-wag-'n-bietjie (Ziziphus mucronata), iNhliziyonkhulu (Dombeya rotundifolia), and raasblaar (Combretum zeyheri) among others, they make Flowstone Gins the perfect choice for a spring heritage cocktail.
Buy the Flowstone range of gin online at www.flowstone.co.za as well as Makro and Takealot. To connect with Flowstone, visit Facebook at @FlowstoneGin and Instagram @flowstonegin.
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