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Welcome to Cocktails with GinHere you will find the world’s most popular and easy to make cocktails with gin.
If you are looking for cocktails with gin, you are at the right place! If you are here for martini recipes, you are not at the right place. Although gin is the base ingredient for martini cocktails, we have a whole page dedicated to martini recipes. Click here to go from Cocktails with Gin to the Martini Recipe Guide.
Dating from 17th century Holland, gin is believed to be the base ingredient of the most popular cocktail recipes in the world. It is further said to be the most widely used spirit for making mixed drinks. There are many varieties of gin. London Dry gin (aka English or Dry gin) is the most versatile of these and we suggest, if you have to choose one, to go for this one. Interestingly enough London Dry gin does not necessarily come form London – it’s rather a name for the style of making it.
TIP: Check out our Cocktail Mixing Guide for an explanation of some of the terms used on this page.
ABBEY COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Martini Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Maraschino cherry on a cocktail stick.
BELMONT COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Martini Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass.
CLOVER CLUB COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Shake the ingredients the glass. You may need to shake it a bit more than usual for the egg to mix with the rest of the ingredients and the sugar to dissolve if you are not using sugar syrup. Garnish:Usually none, but a lemon twist draped over the side of the glass works well.
DUBONNET COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Low ball Preparation:Build the ingredients over ice in the glass. Garnish:Lemon slice or twist
SINGAPORE SLING* Arguably the most famous and widely drank gin cocktail of all time. This cocktail was created in 1914 by Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. It remains highly popular to this day. Add freshly squeezed orange juice as a variant to the lemon juice.
Ingredients: Glass:Highball Preparation:Squeeze the juice into the glass. Add the gin, brandy, sugar and ice. Stir and top up with soda water to taste. Garnish:In-season fruits. Serve with a straw.
COCKTAIL GIN FIZZ* A classic cocktail with gin dating from the early 20th century. Ingredients: Glass:Highball Preparation:Shake the ingredients without the soda water and strain into the glass. Top up with soda water to taste. Garnish:Lemon wheel
Great refreshing cocktail. BARTENDING TIP: Shaking gin givea it a cloudy texture. When mixing gin with other clear ingredient, rather stir than shake it to leave the mixture clear.
BRONX* The Bronx cocktail (or “Cocktail Bronx” as it’s sometimes called) is in essence a dry martini with orange juice. A delicious alternative if a dry martini is a bit too heavy for you. Another classic from the 1930’s.
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled. Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Orange twist
As the name suggests this cocktail originates from the Bronx in New York. INTERESTING FACT: You will come across many cocktail recipes with sloe gin as it’s base ingredient. Sloe gin is different from normal gin so don't confuse the two. MILLIONAIRE’s COCKTAIL This is a variation on the sweet martini. Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Lemon twist
A gin cocktail fit for a millionaire! PARADISE COCKTAIL This is a popular pre-dinner drink. Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:None usually, but why not put an orange wheel in?
MAIDEN’s PRAYER
Ingredients: Glass:Martini Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:None usually, but why not put an orange wheel in?
The drink is said to have been invented for ladies with broken hearts. It soothes the ache. GIMLET Another quick and easy gin cocktail. Lacking a bit of personality though. Ingredients: Glass:Lowball or martini Preparation:Stir the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Twist of lime
MILLENNIUM
There are about as many variations of this cocktail as there are years in a millennium. Here is Cocktail Mixing Master’s version.
Ingredients: Glass:Highball Preparation:Build the ingredients over ice in the glass. Garnish:Usually none
There are about as many variations of this cocktail as there are years in a millennium.
PINK GIN This is the American version of a true British invention. Ingredients: Glass:Martini Preparation:Stir the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Twist of lemon peel or simply ungarnished
JOHN COLLINS* If you use Old Tom gin in this drink, it becomes a “Tom Collins”. Old Tom is very difficult to get hold of though. Ingredients: Glass:Highball Preparation:Shake the ingredients (without the soda water) and strain into the ice filled glass. Top up with soda water. Garnish:Lemon wheel
BLUE ARROW Bright blue drink. A real eye catcher. Ingredients: Glass:Cocktail Preparation:Shake the ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice and strain into the glass. Garnish:Serve ungarnished
PARADISE COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Orange twist (optional).
PINK LADY
Ingredients: Glass:Martini Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Maraschino cherry on a cocktail stick.
POLO COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Orange twist (optional).
ROSELYN COCKTAIL
The Roselyn cocktail can pass as a variant on the classic dry martini.
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Stir the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Lemon slice.
Replace the grenadine syrup with orange juice to make a Jupiter Cocktail.
THANKSGIVING COCKTAIL
Enjoy this one while you wait for the turkey to finish.
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Shake or stir the ingredients and strain into the glass. Garnish:Maraschino cherry on a cocktail stick or lodged on the rim of the glass.
UNION JACK
Ingredients: Glass:Martini Preparation:Shake the ingredients and strain into a glass. Garnish:Usually none
WHITE LADY
Also known as a Delilah, Chelsea Side-car and Lillian Forever. This is essentially a Side Car made with gin instead of brandy. A drink invented by Henry MacElhone in London in 1919.
Ingredients:Ice cubes Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:shake the ingredients and strain into the glass
Garnish:Not necessary. One variation suggests star anis.
A variation to this drink is to use white peppermint liqueur instead of gin. You can also add 1 part egg white and 0.5 parts sugar syrup to fancy it up.
YALE COCKTAIL
Ingredients: Glass:Martini, chilled Preparation:Stir the ingredients and strain into the glass.
*Cocktails marked with an * are official International Bartenders Association (IBA) cocktails with gin. In some cases the recipes here do not correspond exactly with that of the IBA.
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