Tom Collins

Rosemary Collins Recipe

Ingredients:

• 60ml Gin
• 30ml Lemon Juice
• 15ml Rosemary simple syrup
• Ice
• Club Soda 
• Optional: lemon wedge or slice

Equipment:

• Collins glass
• Jigger or Measuring cup
• Long handle spoon

Instructions:

1. Fill a Collins glass with one large ice block
2. Add the gin rosemary simple syrup & lemon juice into the highball glass
3. Top with soda water.
4. Stir gently with a long handled spoon
5. Garnish with a lemon peel curl and/or rosemary sprig
6. Relax and enjoy your amazing home made cocktail.
7. Note this recipe is a basic ratio to create a Tom Collins when using Botanikos simple syrups

Orange Collins Recipe

An interesting fact when contemplating the use of Genever: In 1862 a celebrity bartender by the name of Jerry Thomas produced the world's first cocktail and bartending book titled "The Bar-tenders Guide or How To Mix Drinks". In there appeared recipes based around four basic cocktail spirits being brandy, rum, whisky and not surprisingly, Genever the predecessor of London Dry Gin.

Below is a cocktail recipe replicating an original version of the 'Orange Collins', a classic in the era of Jerry Thomas. Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 75ml Oude Genever
• 15 ml Dry Orange Curacao Liquor
• 15ml Bitter Orange Simple Syrup
• 30ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 dashes Orange Bitters
• ice
• Olinda Sparkling water
• Orange Wedge

Instructions

1. Add 3-4 blocks of ice with all liquid ingredients to a cocktail shaker.
2. Close the shaker and shake for 10 seconds.
3. Pour the contents of the shaker into a Collins glass along with the ice
4. Squeeze an orange wedge over the glass and drop it into the drink.
5. Top up with sparkling water.
6. Serve with a long straw.

Blueberry Collins Recipe

Ingredients:

• 60ml Gin
• 30ml Blueberry Shrub
• 15ml Lemon Juice
• Soda Water
• Fresh Berries for garnish

Instructions:

1. 1. Fill a Collins glass with ice
   2. Add gin of choice, blueberry shrub and lemon juice to the glass
   3. Top the glass with soda
   4. Gently stir to mix ingredients and combine flavours
   5. Garnish with fresh berries

Note: this recipe is a basic ratio to create a Tom Collins when using Botanikos shrub flavours.