Count down the days to the 25th with a Christmas gin cocktail! This year, we’re keeping things botanical with Beefeater London Dry Gin. The sweet and spiced flavour is made for festive sipping. So what better than to pour it into a holiday cocktail?!
Here’s our favourite gin cocktail recipes to make this Christmas.
Give hot chocolate a gingery, gin upgrade with this ultimate holiday cocktail, flavoured with gingerbread 🎄
Stir the gin, hot chocolate and gingerbread syrup in a mug until combined. Then spray with whipped cream and your favourite festive toppings.
Try this fruity twist on a classic Hot Toddy, flavoured with sweet peach and raspberry. Perfect for keeping cosy on a cold Christmas night ❄️
Add the gin, cordial and honey to hot water in a mug. Garnish with a slice of fresh ginger.
This one’s great to make for a crowd – discover more big batch gin cocktails.
Keep warm this winter with this Gin Margarita. A spiced take on the classic Marg.
Pre-chill a coupe + rim with cinnamon / mixed spice salt. Combine all ingredients to a shaking tin + fill with ice. Shake & fine strain into a pre-chilled Coupe or Rocks glass. Garnish with a toasted cinnamon stick & lime wedge.
When the holiday period is in full sing, there’s one cocktail we loved stirring up.
This classic martini has been given a festive twist with Lillet Blanc and fresh juicy redcurrants so that showstopping celebratory feel.
Put the gift wrapping on ice! 🎁 Instead, serve yourself a fruitful Beefeater Pink and Tonic, garnish with strawberries, rosemary and all the Winter berries you desire 🍓🍒
Built in a Copa / Highball glass – Beefeater Pink followed by ice + tonic. Garnish with strawberries, rosemary & star anise.
Beefeater Pink Strawberry spin on the classic Bramble cocktail 🍓 The addition of vibrant pomegranate gives crisp fruitiness that balances out citrus notes. Perfect for those December nights ❄️
Add all ingredients to a shaking tin. Shake hard with ice and strain into a chilled rocks glass over crushed ice. Serve with a biodegradable or reusable straw. Garnish with blackberries, strawberries, cranberries & mint – dusted with icing sugar.
Raise your glasses and toast to Christmas with a festive take on a classic Mimosa. Sip on Beefeater London Dry, served with spiced Clementine and topped with bubbles 🥂🍊
INGREDIENTS
○ 20ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
○ 30ml Spiced-Clementine Juice
○ 15ml Triple Sec
○ Top with 60ml Champagne
Combine all ingredients (except Champagne) to a mixing tin/glass & stir with ice. Strain into pre-chilled flute + top with Champagne.
Take two festive favourites, mulled wine and the French 75 and combine them create Christmas in a glass 🎄🍷
INGREDIENTS
○ 20ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
○ 15ml Mulled Wine
○ 10ml Lemon
○ 5ml Plymouth Sloe
○ 5ml Sugar (2:1)
○ 40ml Champagne
Combine all ingredients (except Champagne) into a shaking tin. Fill with ice, shake hard + strain into a flute. Top up with Champagne. Garnish with orange peel, cinnamon + rosemary.
A Negroni makes the perfect pre-dinner cocktail. A delightful infusion of bitter zest and Christmas spice, serve your guests this classic Italian aperitif with a festive twist 🍊⭐️
INGREDIENTS (Single serve)
○ 25ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
○ 25ml Sweet Vermouth
○ 25ml Bitter Aperitif
Combine the ingredients in a rocks glass and stir. Then add cinnamon stick, clove studded orange peel & Star Anise to drink.
Got time? Why not pre-batch for more flavour?
Toast spices gently in a pan to release aromas – add to a kilner jar followed by specified ingredients (multiply proportion by how many serves you require). Once infused, add water to dilute to optimal taste. Fine strain into a sealed bottle / container & store.
Best shared together. If you’re seeking something more fruitful, sip on a glass of Christmas sparkle with a Beefeater Pink Gin Fizz 💕✨
INGREDIENTS
○ 40ml Beefeater Pink Gin
○ 20ml Cream Sherry
○ 25ml Lemon
○ 10ml Sugar (2:1)
○ 1 x Egg White (medium egg)
○ 40-50ml Soda
Add all ingredients to a shaker tin – shake without ice to emulsify the egg white, then shake hard with ice before straining into a fizz glass.
At last a moment to yourself.. Sit back and sip on a cool and creamy White Russian, reinvented with our original Beefeater London Dry Gin.
INGREDIENTS
○ 30ml Beefeater London Dry Gin
○ 25ml Kahlua
○ 5ml PX Sherry
○ 15ml Cream
Combine all ingredients into a mixing tin/glass – Stir with ice and strain into a small tumbler with a single large cube of ice. Garnish with coffee beans + grated nutmeg.
Get more recipes to make this Christmas including our favourite winter gin cocktails and collection of festive drinks. You can also shake up our favourite non-alcoholic Christmas drinks with Beefeater 0.0.
