Pour over ice and top up with tonic or try it in other gin based cocktails such as negroni. Place the strawberry basil leaves and sugar into a cocktail shaker and mash well with a cocktail muddler. Step 2 store in the fridge and stir every two days for three weeks. Its alcohol content falls right in line with other soda highballs around 8 percent abv 16 proof. A descendant of jenever the national spirit of the netherlands and belgium gin is made with juniper berries which give it a piney taste.
Pour in the gin and lemon juice cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Top up the cocktail shaker with ice and shake again. Shake for 20 seconds. This homemade strawberry gin is the perfect summer drink and can be ready in a matter of days. Mix the gin with the strawberries and caster sugar in a large bowl and pour into a 1 5 litre sterilised kilner jar.
Add half of the ice to the cocktail shaker and place the rest into a tall glass. The strawberry gin and tonic is a delightfully gentle cocktail. It s right in between the strength of beer and wine only this drink is far more interesting. The in on gin. In a cocktail shaker combine the strawberries gin lemon juice sugar syrup and egg white.
Strain into a chilled serving glass and garnish with a strawberry. Strain into a chilled serving glass and garnish with a strawberry. Add half of the ice to the cocktail shaker and place the rest into a tall glass. Pour in the gin and lemon juice cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Pour over ice and top up with tonic or try it in other gin based cocktails such as negroni.