Easy Pink Gin Spritz Recipe — Sugar & Cloth (2024)

FAQs

How do you make pink gin at home? ›

All you need is a bottle of Sipsmith London Dry Gin, a heaping pile of sloe berries (if you struggle to forage in your area, they're often sold online), and a large, sealable glass jar. After infusing for several months, add a dose of simple syrup to sweeten, and voila: you've got homemade pink gin to be proud of.

Modern Pink Gin

The pink color in this spirit derives from infusion of red and pink produce, spices, or bitters – or even added coloring and sweeteners. Popular ingredients like strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, grape skins, rose petals, and red currents, can add color as well as fragrance and flavor to a pink gin.

This easy Pink Gin Spritz has just three ingredients: Great Glen Light & Zesty Highland Gin, Schweppes Pink Soda and Craft Gin Club's Pink Gin Spritz co*cktail Syrup.

Try Pink Gin with soda or Fever-Tree tonic and a slice of pink grapefruit. Pour liquids into a glass over ice, carefully stir together.

Combine gin, triple sec, single cream and rose syrup in a co*cktail shaker, with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with dried rose petals. A Pink Gin and Prosecco co*cktail - fizzy, fruity and fabulous!

The primary three ingredients used in the majority of gins are juniper, coriander and angelica. Even though these are the most popular, there are hundreds of flowers, roots, fruits, berries and nuts that are used to create a palate for each gin that makes it distinctive.

Gordon's Premium Pink Distilled Gin contains 1.8g of sugar per 25ml serve or 7.2g per 100ml. Beefeater London Premium Pink Gin contains 4.6g of sugar per 100ml, which is 1.15g per 100ml.

Pink gin is normal gin that has been flavoured with fruits. It's similar to normal gin as it has no added sugar and contains the same alcohol by volume. However, red or pink fruits like strawberries, raspberries or red currents are added.

How to Tell a Fizz from a Spritz. Spritzes don't contain citrus. If there's acidity, it comes primarily from wine. Spritzes are generally built and stirred over ice – much like the brandy and gin fizz, but very unlike the silver, golden, or Ramos Gin Fizz.

Bright Night Pink Gin, which looks like summer sunset and tastes like strawberry sherbet makes a delicious Gin Spritz. This co*cktail is a refreshing, summery cold drink!

How many standard drinks is a pink gin spritz? ›

Contains 1.5 standard drinks per serve.

Pink gin liqueurs with lemonade or soda

Sometimes the bitterness of the quinine in tonic doesn't work so well with a sweeter liqueur. So why not try lemonade instead or soda to let the flavours show through.

However, nowadays when we hear of 'pink gin' we think more of those dry gins that are actually flavoured and infused with red fruits during or after the distillation process. This imparts a sweeter, fruitier flavour into the gin.

The answer is yes – gin is a great sipping spirit!

Nowadays, when producing pink gin, the base gin is distilled in the same way as your original gin, but after distillation, the gin will be infused with red or pink fruits, or bitters like the original recipe. Colouring and sweeteners can also be added at this stage to lift the fruity notes.

Back in the day, 'pink' gin was actually a traditional dry gin served with the addition of angostura bitters to give it a pink colour. Pink gin has a unique colour, yet often has no added sugar and the same amount of alcohol as regular gin.

Empress Gin, which boasts an indigo hue in the bottle, changes to a pretty lavender pink when acid, in the form of citrus or quinine, is added.

The secret colour changing magic comes courtesy of nature, usually thanks to an ingredient called the Butterfly Pea Flower (cl*toria Ternatea), which enables colours to change from a deep blue to a pink with the addition of an acidic mixer such as Tonic.