Lilac Gin & Tonic
Serves: 1 delightful cocktail
Tastes like: A combination of sweet smelling spring flowers and really amazing summer day with friends in a glass.
Recommended Liquor: Aviation Gin or Plymouth Gin – a solid London Dry Gin that doesn’t overpower the lilac but instead elevates it’s flavor.
Ingredients:
2 ounces Gin
Juice of half a lemon
4 ounces tonic water (Fever Tree Mediterranean tonic or preferably one without corn syrup)
1.5 ounces lilac simple syrup (or sweetened to taste)
Ice
Garnish: dehydrated lilac flowers & dehydrated lemon wheel
Directions:
Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into your new highball glass and then put the squeeze lemon in the cup and muddle to release zest.
Fill the glass with ice.
Add two ounces gin.
Pour 4 ounces tonic water over top.
Finish with 1.5 ounces lilac syrup (or to sweetened to taste).
Give the cocktail a quick stir before serving.
Float a few lilac blossoms and the dehydrated lemon wheel on top of the cocktail and let the flavors soak in.
Enjoy
Notes: Amounts are recommendations NOT rules, have fun, play with the taste and find what you like. I tend to prefer more salt than sweet. This cocktail plays to the sweet side a bit so use the citrus as a means to curb the sweetness if that is what you prefer.