Cocktails Featuring
Botanivore Gin
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Vesper
3 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz St. George All Purpose Vodka
1/2 oz Lillet Blanc
Stir all ingredients with ice to chill (or shake à la 007), then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a thin peel of lemon.Recipe: classic
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Spanish Gin & Tonic
2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
4 oz elderflower tonic
Fill a large goblet or wine glass 3/4 full of ice. Add gin, top with tonic, and stir gently. Garnish with grapefruit slice, fresh mint, and edible flowers—or as you like. Just make it pretty!Recipe: variation on a classic
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Gin Fizz
2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz club soda
1 oz fresh lemon juice
3/4 oz simple sryup
1 egg white (about 1/2 oz)
Dry shake (no ice) all ingredients except the club soda for about 10 seconds. Add 3 or 4 ice cube then shake again vigorously. Pour club soda into a Collins glass, then double-strain contents of shaker into the glass.Recipe: classic
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BEE’S KNEES
2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
3/4 oz honey syrup
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
Shake all ingredients with ice, then strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.Recipe: updated classic
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California Negroni
1 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz Greenbar Grand Poppy Liqueur
1 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz fresh grapefruit juice
1/4 oz Bar Cart Cocktail Co. Spring Bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice in a mixing glass until well chilled, at least 10 seconds. Strain into a cold, ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with matchstick pieces of grapefruit peel and an olive branch.Recipe: Katie Blandin Shea, Bar Cart Cocktail Co.
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The Botanist
1 ½ oz St. George Botanivore Gin
½ oz St. Germain
½ oz lemon juice
¼ oz simple syrup
2 mint leaves
1 cucumber slice
Shake all ingredients with ice, then strain into a rocks glass with 3 large ice cubes. Garnish with a lemon wheel and mint sprig.Recipe: Wil Schultz, Merchants, Nashville
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California Citrus Vesper
3 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz St. George California Citrus Vodka
1/2 oz Lillet Blanc
Stir all ingredients with ice to chill, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a thin peel of orange.Recipe: variation on a classic
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Bijou
2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz Chartreuse
3 dashes Regan's #6 bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon peel.Recipe: classic
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Floradora
1 1/4 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
3/4 oz St. George Raspberry Brandy
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz ginger syrup
1/2 oz raspberry gum syrup
seltzer
Measure all ingredients except seltzer into mixing tin. Add ice, then shake and double-strain into an ice-filled Collins glass. Fill with seltzer, swizzle, and garnish with a long lime twist.Recipe: Waldorf-Astoria original adapted by Erik Carlson, Bastille, Seattle
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CLOVER CLUB
1 1/2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1/2 oz St. George Raspberry Liqueur
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1/4 oz simple syrup
1 egg white
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker, top with ice, shake for ~30 seconds. Strain into fresh shaker, discard ice, and shake vigorously again for 15–20 seconds to build up a nice froth. Strain into a chilled coupe glass, garnish rim with orange zest.Recipe: Tyler Ridgeway, Khong River House, Miami Beach
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Botanical Smash
2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
9 leaves fresh herbs
1/2 tsp superfine sugar
seltzer water
We like a combo of mint and tarragon for this one. Muddle herbs with sugar, then shake with gin and ice. Strain into a fresh glass filled with ice, top with seltzer water, and garnish with a whole leaf of each herb.Recipe: variation on a classic
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Dorflinger
2 oz gin (we prefer Botanivore)
1 oz St. George Absinthe Verte
1 dash orange bitters
Stir gin, absinthe, and bitters with ice until well chilled, then strain into a cocktail glass.Recipe: classic
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Peas and Spank You
2 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz muddled sweet peas
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz simple syrup
2 dashes Fee Brothers Celery Bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice, then serve on the rocks garnished with a spanked mint leaf.Recipe: St. George Spirits
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SINGAPORE SLING
1 oz St. George Botanivore Gin
1 oz Benedictine
3/4 oz Cherry Heering
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1/4 oz fresh pineapple juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice, then strain into a Mason jar filled with ice. Top with 2 oz soda, mound with crushed ice, and garnish with a lemon wheel.Recipe: Julian Cox, Short Order and Bestia, Los Angeles
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