Gin Garden

Gin has always been good friends with elderflower but it is less well known that it also gets on with cucumber, try a slice next time in your G & T. This recipe combines the two flavours with a refreshingly fruity and light creation.

• 1/4 cucumber, peeled and chopped
• 12.5 ml Elderflower cordial
• 50 ml Gin
• 25 ml quality apple juice

Muddle the chopped cucumber and elderflower cordial in a cocktail shaker to release all the cucumber juices and flavours. Then add the gin, apple juice and some ice and shake vigorously to chill. Double strain into a chilled Martini glass. Can be decorated with cucumber slices on the rim.

Creating a sublime cocktail

Cocktails can range in quality from the sublime to the terrible, but what is it that makes a really really good cocktail? A drink that when you sip it teases your taste buds and leaves you eager for more?

Cocktails are in the majority of cases a combination of sweet, sour, salt, and bitter tastes. For example a mojito combines sweet and sour and a negroni combines bitter and sweet. It is the perfect balancing of the tastes that leads to a really superb drink. It can be surprising how little adjustments can make a big difference to the finished result, just a ml one way or another can be the difference between good and great!

The Mobile Cocktail Company: We're coming to the end of another busy summer, pl...

We're coming to the end of another busy summer, plenty of big parties where our cocktails have been very well received! As normal we've added some new cocktails to our selection so as well as the big favourites our customers can try some new flavour combinations.One of our favourite drinks this summer has been the Cucumber Martini. A delicious combination of fresh cucumber, Skyy Vodka, Elderflower and cucumber syrup this is a perfect refreshing summers drink.

We're coming to the end of another busy summer, plenty of big parties where our cocktails have been very well received! As normal we've added some new cocktails to our selection so as well as the big favourites our customers can try some new flavour combinations.One of our favourite drinks this summer has been the Cucumber Martini. A delicious combination of fresh cucumber, Skyy Vodka, Elderflower and cucumber syrup this is a perfect refreshing summers drink.  

Beginning of the season

With the new outdoor bar season just about to start we're busy thinking about and trying delicious new cocktail recipes. Last years big favourites were the Mojito as always and the Spicy 50. This year we've got a feeling that our gin and guava cocktails mixed with a few secret ingredients are going to be big. Also perhaps we'll keep those Mojitos fresh with the addition of fresh rapsberries and perhaps a dash of Chateau Monet framboise liquer - Don't tell the purists!!

Gin Garden

Gin has always been good friends with elderflower but it is less well known that it also gets on with cucumber, try a slice next time in your G & T. This recipe combines the two flavours with a refreshingly fruity and light creation.

• 1/4 cucumber, peeled and chopped
• 12.5 ml Elderflower cordial
• 50 ml Gin
• 25 ml quality apple juice

Muddle the chopped cucumber and elderflower cordial in a cocktail shaker to release all the cucumber juices and flavours. Then add the gin, apple juice and some ice and shake vigorously to chill. Double strain into a chilled Martini glass. Can be decorated with cucumber slices on the rim.

Did you see Gordon Ramsays Ice Sculptures at Christmas??

Our very own ice sculpture Mark Gibb was featured on Gordon Ramsays Christmas programme. Live sculpting a Christmas tree and reindeer.