Gin Jam

Gin Jam

Gin Jam


Here is the next instalment for my 1man1drink cocktail recipe's for you the reader to mix up and enjoy. I recently designed and published this drink for cocktail of the month in a local magazine called DV8.
This weeks featured spirit will be Gin, a favourite of mine due to its fragrant nose and its versatility as a base spirit in any cocktail recipe. This is a simple, unique, crowd pleasing drink.

Ingredients - 35ml Plymouth Gin, 15ml Plymouth Sloe Gin, 1 teaspoon Blackcurrant Jam (home-made or not), 1/4 of a lime, soda, 1/2 teaspoon sugar.

Method - Add the Plymouth Sloe and Plymouth gin into your mixing glass. Add the teaspoon of blackcurrant and stir it in till separated. Now add the sugar and lime juice, fill your mixing glass up with hard ice, attach your tin and shake vigorously till ice cold.
Prepare a rocks glass, or and empty jam jar with crushed ice, strain the ingredients of your mixing glass over the crushed ice leaving enough room for a dash of soda. Once dashed crown the drink with crushed ice. Garnish the drink with a Lime wedge and a smidgen of blackcurrant jam.


Tasting notes -  The Gin Jam should ultimately be a dry drink with a bitter edge and have a sweet finish to it. Depending on the amount of jam you use the gin should be the predominate ingredient standing out. Again this is a very refreshing summertime drink but also an easy drink to replicate at home. Add some muddled blackberries or raspberries to variate, the drink also works well with vodka.   


Calorie count - (roughly) 160kcal