#gin buck

Spring is here, colourfully dotting the gardens with gorgeous blooms. The sun is out, shining warmly enough on afternoons, and thus one fancies a light and bright tipple, like this beautiful Grapefruit Buck, particularly refreshing after a potter in the Veg Patch!

Ingredients (serves 1):

4 ice cubes

half a small, ripe pink grapefruit

45 millilitres/1 1/2 fluid ounces (3 tablespoons) London Dry Gin

chilled ginger beer (like Bundaberg's), to top

Place ice cubes in a tall or Collins glass.

Cut thin slices from the grapefruit halve, to garnish.

Thoroughly squeeze the juice of the grapefruit halve, and strain into the glass.

Add London Dry Gin, and give a gentle stir with a bar spoon.

Top with chilled ginger beer, and garnish with grapefruit slices.

Beautifully refreshing on a very warm Spring day, this Gin Buck is a simple cocktail that allows the spirit to shine as brightly as the sun! Happy Friday!

Ingredients (serves 1):

8 ice cubes

45 millilitres/1 1/2 fluid ounces herbaceous botanical gin (like Wild Burrows)

1/2 small, ripe lemon

chilled ginger beer (like Bundaberg's), to top

Place ice cubes in a Collins glass.

Pour gin over the ice.

Thoroughly squeeze the juice of the lemon halve, and pour over the gin and ice. Give a gentle stir with a bar spoon.

Top with chilled ginger beer.

There was once a summer some years ago when my mom and I stumbled along this little gem, looking for a new cocktail—and yes, of course it became our No. 1 9-1-1 drink (there’s also one called Fuzzy Eddie, but we’ve never tried it yet)

Gin Buck

Juice of half a lemon [about 3/4 ounce]

2 ice cubes [I used 4 because it's an old book and they are smaller now]

1 teaspoonful of Simple Syrup

2 ounces Gin

Ginger ale

Place lemon juice, ice cubes, Simple Syrup and Gin in an 8-ounce glass and fill with ginger ale.