Broken Heart Spirits are not only great to drink straight, with ice or your choice of mixer, but they also work brilliantly in a range of delicious cocktails. Take a look below at some of the staff favourites for some inspiration. Our team love creating cocktails and playing with unique flavour profiles, so if you have any recommendations then we would love to hear from you. You never know you might see your creation on our menu at the Gin Garden!
Pure Love
45ml Original Gin
30ml orange juice
30ml lemon juice
30ml sage syrup
Top with Brut
Shake first 4 ingredients.
Double strain into a coupe.
Top with bubbles.
Garnish with an orange twist or a crystalised sage leaf.
Red Snapper
45ml Navy Strength
30ml lemon juice, 4 dashes Worcestershire sauce and 4 dashes hot sauce
Tomato juice
Garnish with juniper berry & black peppercorn sprinkle, green olives, and rosemary
Stir down spirit, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce and half a glass of tomato juice.
Add ice then garnish.
Queenstown in Bloom
45ml Queenstown Edition Gin
10ml elderflower vermouth
20ml rosewater syrup
90ml grapefruit juice
Soda water
Pour first 4 ingredients into a tumbler.
Mix together, then top with ice and soda.
Garnish with thyme sprig and fresh flowers.
Vesper Martini
45ml Vodka
15ml Original Gin
10ml Vermouth Blanc
Lemon twist to garnish
Stir down over ice to dilute.
Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish.
Dark & Stormy
45ml Spiced Rum
15ml lime juice
Ginger beer
Garnish with rosemary stalk
Mix ingredients in a Collins glass.
Top up with ice, ginger beer and add garnish.
Rhubarb Gimlet
60ml Rhubarb Gin
30ml lime juice
30ml sugar syrup
Shake all ingredients hard with ice.
Double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Garnish with dehydrated lemon.
Negroni Noir
30ml Pinot Noir Gin
30ml Vermouth Rouge
20ml Campari
150ml tonic water
Stir down ingredients over ice in a wine glass.
Garnish with an orange slice.
The Quincident
45ml Quince Gin
30ml lemon juice
15ml jasmine syrup
60ml pineapple juice
Mediterranean tonic
Drizzle of Bella -Wild Plum Elixir
Add first 4 ingredients to a Collins glass.
Top up with ice and tonic.
Top with drizzle of Bella and garnish.
Barrel Old Fashioned
45ml Barrel Aged
1 bar spoon of raw sugar
2 dashes of orange bitters
Orange wheel and rosemary garnish
Stir down ingredients over ice.
Strain over a big ice cube in a tumbler.
Garnish with rosemary sprig and/or rosemary.
Autumn Sparkler
30ml Quince Liqueur
45ml apple juice
20ml lemon juice
90ml Prosecco / to top up
Garnish with a cinnamon stick
Pour over ice into a wine glass.
Garnish with a half cinnamon rim or cinnamon stick and pear or quince slice.
Irish Coffee
45ml Whisky
30ml espresso
Hot water
Cream to top
In an Irish coffee mug add first 3 ingredients.
Shake cream to top.
Garnish with 3 coffee beans.
Apple Sparkler
45ml 0% Botanical Spirit
20ml sage syrup
90ml apple juice
Tonic water
Pour over ice into a wine glass.
Top with tonic water.
Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and a fresh flower.
Mulled Bella
Peels from 1 orange, 1 lemon, 1 lime
100g caster sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup Bella
3 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, 2 bay leaves
Nutmeg, 1 star anise
1/2 tsp vanilla
750ml Red Wine
250ml Bella
Peel the fruits
Add sugar to large saucepan over medium heat
Add all fruit peels and 1/4 cup of orange juice
Add cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaves and 10 gratings of nutmeg to the pan with vanilla
Stir in just enough Bella to cover the sugar
Simmer until sugar completely dissolves, then bring to the boil for 4-5 mins to create a syrup
Turn heat to low and add the bottle of wine, 250ml of Bella and star anise
Let simmer for 5 mins before serving
This recipe serves approx 6 drinks based on a 150ml pour. Garnish with a cinnamon stick or dehydrated orange slice and enjoy!