7 BEST GIN COCKTAILS (and How to Make Them with 10 Ingredients!) - VOL. 1

Make BETTER cocktails in less than 90 mins: https://bit.ly/cocktail-workshops The Best Gin Cocktails as voted by YouTube subscribers, Redditors and Facebook fans! I compiled a list of 25+ of the most popular gin cocktails and asked for everyone's input - to vote for their personal favourite GIN Cocktail. There were over 250 respondents to the survey resulting in the Best Gin Cocktails list! Given the number of responses received, I decided to create a mini-series for The Best Gin Cocktails. This is Vol. 1. INGREDIENTS LIST FOR ALL 7 GIN COCKTAILS: - Gin (London Dry, Old Tom) - Maraschino Liqueur - Creme de Violette - Creme de Mure - Champagne / Sparkling Wine - Lemon Juice - Simple Syrup (1:1) - Soda / Seltzer - Basil - Raspberry Syrup - Egg White Here are the top 7 gin cocktails based on these votes. ---AVIATION--- The most searched cocktail on the internet back in 2013. The Aviation has been printed in numerous cocktail books – many of which excluded the Creme de Violette, as this liqueur was largely unavailable in the states until recent years. INGREDIENTS - 60mL London Dry Gin (2 oz) - 22.5mL Fresh Lemon Juice (¾ oz) - 15mL Maraschino Liqueur (½ oz) - 1 Barspoon Crème de Violette ---TOM COLLINS--- The Tom Collins would be one of the most well known of the Collins’, made using a sweeter style, Old Tom gin. The collins cocktail is a great base to create variations by adding complimentary components and flavours such as elderflower, lychee and other fruit flavours in the form of fresh fruit, syrups and liqueurs. Some collins’ recipes call for a dash or two of bitters but I usually omit this. INGREDIENTS - 60mL Old Tom Gin (2 oz) - 22.5mL Fresh Lemon Juice (¾ oz) - 15mL Simple Syrup (1:1) (½ oz) - Soda ---BASIL SMASH--- In the mid 2000s a German bartender create the Basil Smash – a herbaceous gin sour recipe. INGREDIENTS - 60mL Gin (2 oz) - 22.5mL Fresh Lemon Juice (¾ oz) - 22.5mL Simple Syrup (1:1) (¾ oz) - 2-3 Sprigs of Fresh Basil ---BRAMBLE--- In 1984, London Bartender, Dick bradsel