Bramble Cocktail Recipe

This bramble cocktail recipe is scrumptious! The blackberry brandy nicely complements the gin and lemon, which makes it refreshing and the perfect cocktail to sip on your patio or veranda. (Or even at your kitchen table.)

This bramble recipe is fun and results in the perfect sipping cocktail!  I love how refreshing it is.  The lemon and crushed ice make you want to smack your lips after every sip.  And once you do take a sip, that’s when the gin and blackberry brandy say hello to your taste buds.

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Helpful tips

• Because this cocktail is served with crushed ice, I prefer to mix the ingredients in a shaker and pour them over the ice, rather than mixing them in the glass with the ice; I personally find crushed ice messy to work with. Mine always falls out of the glass
• Since the blackberry brandy is added after the main pour, it’s fun to serve it to your guests in a side car (a separate shot glass), so they can pour it over the crushed ice themselves, satisfying their inner mixologist
• Although I typically advocate using the best liquor you can afford in your cocktails, especially in cocktails that are basically alcohol like the martini or Manhattan, when mixing the bramble, it’s fine to use a mid-level gin, like Bombay Sapphire
• Start with a sour to sweet ratio of 2:1 and if that’s not sweet enough for you, add simple syrup to get closer to a ratio of 1:1

How to make the bramble cocktail recipe

Pre-step

Get a cocktail shaker, fill it halfway with ice and take out a measuring glass and your glassware.  After measuring out the ingredients, pour them into the shaker.

Cut two thin lemon wheels for garnish.  I chose not to use fresh blackberries in this cocktail because they weren’t in season and didn’t want to pay $6.00 for less than a pint of the fruit.  But fresh blackberries are an awesome garnish in this cocktail.

Step one

Gather the ingredients – Gin, blackberry brandy, lemon and simple syrup.

Step two

Measure four ounces of gin.

Step three

Measure 2 ounces of fresh lemon juice (almost a whole lemon, which yields about two ounces of juice).

I always make my own simple syrup and you should too.  It’s easy and less expensive than buying premade.

How to make simple syrup

• Place 1 cup water and 1 cup white sugar in a sauce pan.
• Turn heat on medium and bring to a boil.
• Lower to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes until all the sugar granules have melted.
• Cool and pour into a storage jar or bottle.  Many years ago I bought a bottle of pre-made simple syrup and I reuse it over and over.

Step four

Measure 1 ounce simple syrup.

Step five

Heap the glasses with crushed ice.  Cap the shaker and shake for 15 seconds.  Strain the bramble cocktail recipe into the glasses.

Measure ¾ ounce of blackberry brandy PER cocktail.

Step six

Pour the blackberry brandy over the ice and place a lemon wheel in each glass.

Let’s see how different the bramble looks in the thinner, taller rocks glass.

I hope you enjoyed this bramble cocktail recipe.

And as always, may all your dishes/drinks be delish!

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