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Your guide to easy DIY drinks to suit all occasions – even your lazy days.
Last Updated: 9 June 2017
A night out with your friends may hold plenty of surprises, and who knows; you might just catch a glimpse of your secret crush. But nothing beats a night of fun indoors with your mates and some cold ones. So if you in the mood to spice up your time indoors, why not make your own cocktails and the best part of it is: you get to control the amount of alcohol that will go into your DIY drinks.
Now you might be wondering where to start to get your spirits up (no pun intended), here are a few recipes you could use:
Cool classic: Gin Fizz
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Shake up the gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup, sugar and egg white (if using) in a cocktail mixer with a little ice and strain into a glass half-filled with ice cubes. Top up with the soda water and enjoy with your friends.
Gin & Mint
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Pour in the gin, and add mint and cucumber pieces in the bottom of a cocktail mixer or glass jug. Stir for a minute, squashing down the mint and cucumber with the back of a table spoon to bruise them well and release their juices. Strain into a tall thin glass or plastic tumbler containing a couple of ice cubes. Finally, decorate with mint and lemon and you ready to indulge in this delicious gin cocktail.
Lemongrass Fusion
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Slice the lemongrass and ginger into pieces and bruise them with the back of a tablespoon. Put them, and any juices from them, into a cocktail mixer with some ice, and add the gin and cordial. Shake well then strain into a glass or plastic tumbler with more ice in it. Top up with ginger ale. Decorate with a thin half-slice of lime and enjoy.
Apricot Passion
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Pour the gin over the apricot glaze in a glass with a little crushed ice in it, and stir very well until the apricot is more or less dissolved. Add the passion fruit juice drink and lime juice and stir further, add more crushed ice, then serve with a straw.
Bramble- Blackberry liqueur and gin
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Pour all the liquid ingredients into a thick tumbler half-filled with ice and stir gently. Finish by decorating it with a perfect blackberry or two.
When you are done trying out these easy to follow cocktail recipes, all that's left for you to do is have a jol with your tjommies and feel proud that you are now your own personal "Pro" Cocktail-mixer.
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By Garth Prins
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Images: Wikimedia Commons
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