Cocktail Recipes

Check out some of our favourite cocktails that you can make with The Open Grove's Distiller's Blend Some you will have heard of, some will sound mad, all will be delicious. Now go get that shaker... 

The Open Grove Old Fashioned with ice and orange peel beside an orange and a bottle of Distiller’s Blend

The Open Grove Old Fashioned

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distillers Blend
  • 7.5ml demerara syrup
  • 2 dashes chocolate bitters
  • Orange peel, to garnish

Method

Stir with ice, then strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with orange peel.

The Open Grove Daiquiri

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distillers Blend
  • 20ml lime juice
  • 15ml demerara syrup

Method

Shake with ice and strain into a Nick & Nora glass. Serve without a garnish.

The Open Grove Daiquiri in a stemmed glass beside fresh limes and greenery
The Open Grove Mojito with mint and ice beside limes and a bottle of Distiller’s Blend

The Open Grove Mojito

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distillers Blend
  • 20ml lime juice
  • 10ml simple syrup
  • Soda, to top
  • A handful of mint
  • Mint, to garnish

Method

Build in the glass over pebble ice. Top with soda, more pebble ice and a mint garnish.

Mai Tai

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 25ml lime juice
  • 20ml orgeat
  • 10ml dry curaçao
  • Lime wedge, to garnish

Method

Shake with pebble ice, then strain over fresh pebble ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Mai Tai over crushed ice with a lime wedge garnish beside a fresh lime
Jungle Bird cocktail with ice and a pineapple garnish beside fresh pineapple

Jungle Bird

Ingredients

  • 45ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 15ml Campari
  • 25ml pineapple juice
  • 15ml lime juice
  • 10ml simple syrup
  • Pineapple wedge, to garnish

Method

Shake with ice and strain over fresh cubed ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

Distiller’s Daiquiri

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 25ml Distiller’s Syrup (recipe below)
  • 25ml lime juice
  • Coriander oil, to garnish

Method

Shake with ice and serve in a coupe without ice. Garnish with coriander oil.

Distiller’s Syrup

  • 60g mango
  • 30g passion fruit
  • 150g sugar
  • 2 handfuls coriander

add all the fruit to a container and cover with sugar. Refrigerate for 24 hours to allow the sugar to draw out the liquid and form a syrup, then strain and bottle.

Distiller’s Daiquiri in a coupe beside a bottle of The Open Grove and fresh coriander
Lime being squeezed over a Caipirinha beside a bottle of The Open Grove

Caipirinha

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 10ml simple syrup
  • a whole quartered lime
  • Lime wedge, to garnish

Method

Place the quartered lime in a rock glass, press with a muddler then add rum and syrup followed by ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Rum Runner

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 15ml banana liqueur
  • 10ml crème de mûre
  • 30ml pineapple juice
  • 15ml lime juice
  • 7.5ml grenadine

Method

Shake with ice and serve in a tall glass over pebble ice.

Rum Runner in a tall glass with raspberries beside limes and a bottle of The Open Grove
Open Top cocktail in a stemmed glass with a strawberry garnish beside fresh strawberries and lime

Open Top

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 20ml lime juice
  • 10ml peach liqueur
  • 10ml wild strawberry syrup

Method

Shake with ice and serve in a Nick & Nora glass.

Dark Grove Espresso Martini

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove
  • 25ml fresh espresso (speciality dark roast for mixing)
  • 10ml Velvet Falernum
  • 10ml demerara syrup
  • 10ml coffee liqueur
  • 3 coffee beans, to garnish

Method

Shake and garnish with three coffee beans.

Dark Grove Espresso Martini in a stemmed glass beside a bottle of The Open Grove and greenery
Piña Colada in a stemmed glass topped with a cherry

Piña Colada

Ingredients

  • 60ml The Open Grove
  • 60ml pineapple juice
  • 30ml cream of coconut
  • 10ml lime juice
  • 1 barspoon brown sugar
  • A pinch of xanthan gum
  • Pineapple frond and maraschino cherry, to garnish

Method

Blend together with ice. Serve in a highball glass and garnish with a pineapple frond and maraschino cherry.

Open Season

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove
  • 10ml orgeat
  • 10ml passion fruit syrup
  • 7.5ml falernum
  • 15ml lime juice
  • Grated nutmeg, to garnish

Method

Shake and serve over pebble ice. Garnish with grated nutmeg.

Open Season cocktail over crushed ice beside a bottle of The Open Grove and greenery
Strawberry Mojito with ice and mint beside strawberries and a bottle of The Open Grove

Strawberry Mojito

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 25ml lime juice
  • 10ml strawberry & mint syrup
  • A splash of soda, to top
  • Mint and strawberry, to garnish

Serving instructions

Top with a splash of soda and garnish with mint and strawberry.

Classic Daiquiri

A second Daiquiri specification, using simple syrup rather than demerara syrup.

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 25ml lime juice
  • 15ml simple syrup

Serving instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a Nick & Nora glass. Serve without a garnish in a frosted glass.

Classic Daiquiri in a stemmed glass beside a bottle of The Open Grove and ferns
Dark n Stormy in a tall glass with ice and ginger garnish beside ferns

Dark n Stormy

Ingredients

  • 50ml The Open Grove Distiller’s Blend
  • 20ml lime juice
  • 10ml ginger syrup
  • Ginger ale, to top
  • Candied ginger, to garnish

Serving instructions

Top with ginger ale and garnish with candied ginger.