We have a party planned for a week's time, and we have a lot of Gin. Apart from G&T, what else can I make up that's not going to involve buying lots of obscure mixers that are never going to get used up?
Bitter lemon 😉
Angostura works well, is inexpensive and goes a long way.
Otherwise gin is the basis for about a billion cocktails, stick to one's where you like the other spirits.
A big bowl of gin punch!
Negroni?
Martinis all round!
Pretty much any cocktail that uses gin.
Or, have a Navy themed party and just drink gin.
Homemade pimms, weirdly balsamic vinegar seems to be the ingredient to go from gin to pimms somehow, I base this on it being possible to make a pretty accurate non-alcoholic pimms with lemonade and a small amount of balsamic.
A Gimlet is a great cocktail. A nice cocktail time saver for anything that requires sugar syrup is to have a bottle of this in the house.
If you have gin left over after the party that you're not going to get through, then save it for making sloe gin.
Bramble
Homemade pimms, weirdly balsamic vinegar seems to be the ingredient to go from gin to pimms somehow, I base this on it being possible to make a pretty accurate non-alcoholic pimms with lemonade and a small amount of balsamic.
I'm going to go out on a limb here but the difference is going to be the bitterness of the gin. In your lemonade there's a lot of sweetness already so a cheap balsamic will (I'll take your word here) make it taste like pimms as the sharpness isn't exaggerated.
Add a decent measure of gin in and that sharp acidity will be very pronounced, so that means using good balsamic, which means ££££ for a small bottle and probably more expensive than the gin or real pimms.
But let's face it, anyone who thinks a lot of gin is a good idea for a party is going to have gallons of prosecco floating about, just stick it in that before getting everyone into the hot tub.
Get a bottle of Lillet Blanc and some blood oranges, superb martinis.
Make Rhubarb or Sloe gin
Ever been to Menorca?
Pomada is very nice. Easy too.
"White Cargo."
50:50 gin and vanilla ice cream.
Gin Martini?
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Gin Martini?
Grrr. It’s not a ‘gin martini’ it’s a Martini. The default is gin. Any other type of ‘martini’ is what needs to have the spirit specified.
Make Rhubarb or Sloe gin
In a week? You only read the thread title didn't you!
Grrr. It’s not a ‘gin martini’ it’s a Martini. The default is gin. Any other type of ‘martini’ is what needs to have the spirit specified.
Gin-based Martini, then. Was it ambiguous?
Shaky Pete’s ginger brew
This turbo shandy is Hawksmoor’s most popular cocktail.
50ml lemon juice
35ml gin (we use Beefeater)
50ml ginger syrup (whizz peeled ginger in a blender with a basic sugar syrup)
Ale, to top (we use Fuller’s London Pride)In a heavy-duty blender (a NutriBullet would be ideal), blitz the lemon, gin and syrup with five ice cubes. Pour into a beer glass and top with ale.
Imagine the chunder after one too many White Cargoes.
didnthurt
Ever been to Menorca?
Pomada is very nice. Easy too.
We have, it is, so we buy xorigeur gin by the case
Pour it down the drain 😉
Negronis are popular when I host. Equal mix of gin, Campari and red vermouth. I always have mine as a long drink with plenty of tonic. Most guests have their first without tonic but subsequent ones with.
It takes ages to get the red sick stains off the paving stones.
If you have a few bottles of it why not put a decent curl of different citrus peels in some? OH did a bottle of orange and a bottle of grapefruit gin and it's a nice change without adding fruit juice to a G&T.
Homemade punch, pour all the dregs of alcohol from all the bottles in the house into a bowl, add something to make it a nice colour then add some lemon, lime etc.. for the exotic look
People will drink pretty much anything if its free, by the end of the night the punchbowl will have been used by someone as an ashtray with fag butts in it and drunk people will still drink from it and wont care
Have great memories of 90's parties with homemade punch, very drunk people deciding to snort lines of english mustard mixed with vinegar!
Imagine the chunder after one too many White Cargoes.
A mate of mine was once violently and voluminously sick after one too many Mississippi Mudslides. This was at TGIs in the US where the glass is like a goldfish bowl and they hand-pour the liquor.
I've never quite been able to look at Vienetta since.
