In lieu of Gin Day (yes, that is a real thing) on the 13 June, Ruairi Giles – owner of The Bonneville, a French restaurant & cocktail bar in Hackney – has put together a list of the best gin cocktails to accompany you this summer.
Gin actually has a pretty cool heritage and has been a key ingredient for some of the most classic cocktails. Favoured for its unique taste, gins history began in London, and was hailed as a much purer and versatile spirit than its Dutch equivalent.
After the rise of the so-called ‘American Bars’, gin was discovered to be the perfect accompaniment for cocktails, and is in fact designed to be mixed hence why there are probably more gin cocktails than any other spirit.
Here are five of the best Gin cocktails to look out for this summer:
Tom Collins
Ingredients:
25ml Lemon juice
25ml Sugar syrup
50ml Gin
Soda water
Shake with ice and strain over ice, top with soda. Garnish and serve.
The Clover Club 
Ingredients:
20ml Sugar syrup
50ml Gin
20ml Lemon
4-6 Raspberries
20ml Egg white
Mix and shake to foam. Then shake with ice. Strain and serve.
The White lady
Ingredients:
50ml Gin
20ml Triple Sec
20ml Lemon
5ml Sugar Syrup
20ml Egg White
Shake with ice in a mixing glass then strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with orange zest.
Corpse Reviver No2
Ingredients:
50ml Gin
20ml Triple Sec
Absinthe
20ml Lillet Blanc
20ml Lemon
Egg White
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass; drop in a cherry and spray/dash absinthe.
The Last Word
Ingredients:
50ml Gin
20ml Green Chartreuse
20ml Maraschino
20ml Lime
Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with lime zest.
Watch Ruairi make some of his favourite gin cocktails here: https://youtu.be/qbZvgGRjzMo
