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Born from hospitality, our spirits are crafted with complex, well-balanced flavour profiles, designed to create incredible drinking experiences.
Let us guide you through a selection of our favourite classic cocktails, along with simple instructions on how to make them. This guide will help you get the most out of our spirits when entertaining guests at home.
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Gin & Juice
The secret behind Gin & Juice, apart from excellent Gin, is juice with texture. In this example we are juicing cucumber in a centrifuge. All sorts of fruits and veggies are welcome; apples, carrots, celery to name a few.
50 ml Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin
100 ml centrifuged and improved cucumber juice
How to improve juice: add a little freshly squeezed lemon juice and gomme (2 parts sugar, 1 part water = thick sugar syrup) and a touch of salt. The lemon juice can be substituted for citric acid.
In a highball glass add add ice to the top, pour in Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry and add more ice. Pour over centrifuged and improved cucumber juice. Serve instantly.
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Elderflower Collins
The creator of the Collins family is credited to John Collins, who worked at Limmer's Hotel, Conduit Street, London. The Elderflower Collins is a light, popular version that is refreshing all year round.
50 ml Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin
30 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
20 ml elderflower cordial
5 ml gomme (2 parts sugar, 1 part water sugar syrup)
Top with soda water
Pour all ingredients apart from soda in a shaker and add lots of ice. Shake and strain over new ice in a tall glass of choice.
Top up with soda water. Garnish with a flower if in season - or a lemon wheel.
Glass: Highball or tall glass of your choice
Garnish: A lemon wheel or seasonal flowers
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Perfect Lady
Created 1936 by Sidney Cox, a bartender at the Grosvenor House, London. Balanced right, this is a delicious complex sour with texture.
50 ml Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin
20 ml Crème De Peche
25 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
5 ml gomme (2 parts sugar, 1 part water sugar syrup)
1 egg white
Pour all ingredients in a shaker, add the egg white last. Dry shake and then add lots of ice and shake again. Strain into a sours glass. Garnish: None.
Dry shake helps to bind ingredients and create texture in the drink.
Glass: Sours glass
Garnish: None
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Negroni
There is much dispute regarding both the recipe and origin of this “love or hate cocktail”! We choose to believe (we might be leaning in favour of it since we are in the gin business ) the 1934 version from World Drinks and How to Mix Them: Camparinete : 1/2 jigger gin, 1/4 Italian vermouth, 1/4 jigger Campari - served with a twist of lemon peel. There is an equal parts recipe published in 1929 called Campari Mixte, which is clearly a Negroni. You can also find stories about two different counts with “Negroni” as a surname that dates earlier and these stories are much more romantic. And might or might not be true. Whether you are an equal part person or twice as much gin - the Negroni can be pre batched for ease of serving it to your friends!
40 ml Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin
20 ml Sweet Vermouth (such as Noilly Prat)
20 ml Campari
Pour Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin, Sweet Vermouth and Campari over lots of ice in a mixing glass and stir. Strain over new ice and garnish with an orange wedge or lemon peel.
Glass: Rocks glass
Garnish: Orange Wedge or Lemon peel
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Dry Martini
A well made Dry Martini is our founders favourite drink. We recommend that you prebatch your martinis and store them in the freezer for an incredibly delicious, silky Dry Martini with the correct temperature. It also means you do not need ice and can serve many, consistently alike Martinis at once – since you just pour them out from the bottle.
10 parts Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin
1 part Dry Vermouth such as Noilly Prat
Pour Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin andDry Vermouth over lots of ice in a mixing glass and stir. Strain into a chilled martini glas/coupette. Garnish with an olive.
Glass: Martini glass or Coupette
Garnish: Olive
Pre-batched Dry Martini Preparation
The martini should be prepared as a pre-mixed martini in the gin or aquavit bottle.
From a 500 ml bottle:
Remove 50 ml Gin from the bottle, add 45 ml Dry Vermouth such as Noilly Prat or Dolin. Replace cap on bottle, gently twist the bottle a couple of times and place in freezer at least 3 hours before serving. The Martini can be kept for months like this in the freezer.
To serve: Pour the pre-batched Martini in a martini glass or coupette, garnish with an olive.
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Swedish Spring Punch
A Swedish twist on a Russian Spring Punch – a cocktail created by Dick Bradsell in London in the 1980s.
50ml Almqvist Destilleri Rejmyre Akvavit
25ml Freshly squeezed lemon juice
20ml Gomme with seasonal berries (raspberries or lingonberries, for example)
Top up with Champagne
Pour aquavit, lemon juice, and fruit sugar in a shaker. Add lots of ice. Shake and strain over new cubed ice in a highball glass. Top up with Champagne. Garnish with seasonal fruit.
Glass: Highball
Garnish: Seasonal
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Bloody Mary
The Bloody Mary was invented by Pete Petoit, Bartender at Harrys Bar Paris in 1921. He later became Captain of Bars at the St Regis Hotel, New York and the original drink that contained vodka, was substituted for gin and called The Red Snapper.
50 ml Almqvist Destilleri Rejmyre Akvavit
20 ml Lemon Juice (around ½ a freshly squeezed lemon)
20 ml Spice Mix (alternatively 6 dashed of Worcester Sauce, 3 dashes of Tabasco, pinch of salt, pinch of pepper)
120 ml Tomato Juice
Trow or turn/roll all ingredients in a shaker, strain into a frozen sea salt rimmed Hi ball, over new ice.
Glass: Frozen Highball
Garnish: Lemon Wedge
To make Spice mix blend the following ingredients: Tabasco, Worcester sauce, Salt, pepper. Optional: Dijon mustard and horseradish.
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Gin and Tonic
Follow our recipie for a perfectly balanced Gin and Tonic. When making drinks that contain few ingredients, the balance is often harder to get right. Remember to use lots of ice to get the correct temprature and balance. Try it with our Rejmyre Akvavit for a Swedish twist that is equally delicious!
50 ml Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin
125 ml Indian Tonic Water
Add lots of ice into a highball glass. Pour over Almqvist Destilleri Nordic Dry Gin. Add more ice cubes. Top up with Indian tonic water.
Glass: Highball
Garnish: Lemon Wedge
Substitute Nordic Dry Gin for Rejmyre Akvavit for Akvavit and Tonic.
PRODUCTS
Well-balanced spirits with texture
At our distillery, we meticulously distill and bottle high-quality spirits. Using our hand-operated copper pot still, housed in the centuries-old Reijmyre Glassworks, we focus on crafting liquids with balance and rich texture.