Gin

Question 1

Bramble

Answer 1

Glassware: 14oz

Ingredients:
4-5 blackberries
12.5ml gomme (teaspoon of sugar)
25ml lime juice 
37.5ml gin
12.5ml creme de mure 
Top with soda

Method:
Muddle and churn

Garnish - lime, blackberry

Question 2

Chelsea sidecar

Answer 2

Glassware: martini

Ingredients:
50ml gin
12.5ml Cointreau
25ml lemon juice

Method: shake and strain

Garnish: lemon twist

Question 3

Death in the Gulf Stream - Ernest Hemingway hangover cure made in 1922

Answer 3

Glassware: 14oz

Ingredients:
50ml gin
25ml lime juice 
Pinch of sugar
3-4 dashes of bitters 

Method: stir

Garnish: lime peel

Question 4

Gimlet - made by the British navy to prevent scurvy in 1867, named after the corks used for the lime kegs

Answer 4

Glassware: martini

Ingredients:
37.5ml gin
37.5ml lime cordial
Lime wedge

Method: stirred

Garnish: lime wedge squeezed and dropped

Question 5

Gin fizz

Answer 5

Glassware: 14oz

Ingredients:
50ml gin
25ml lemon juice
12.5ml gomme 
Top with soda 

Method: shake, strain, top with soda

Question 6

Gin julep

Answer 6

Glassware: rocks

Ingredients:
12.5ml lemon juice
12.5ml lime juice
12.5ml gomme 
8-10 mint leaves
50ml gin

Method: muddle and churn while adding ice

Garnish: mint sprig

Question 7

Gin sling

Answer 7

Glassware: 14oz

Ingredients:
50ml gin
12.5ml Cointreau 
12.5ml lemon juice
Top with soda 

Method: shake and strain, top with soda

Garnish: lemon wedge squeezed and dropped

Question 8

Martini - a lot of different stories about where it came from, exact measurements and whether it is best shaken or stirred…appeared around the 1800s (Martini-Henry rifle, miners of Martinez)

Answer 8

Glassware: martini

Ingredients:
50ml gin
25ml dry vermouth

Method: stirred

Garnish: lemon twist, olive

(For dry martini, lessen vermouth)
(For perfect martini add equal measure of sweet vermouth to dry)
(For dirty martini add 12.5ml cocktail olive brine)