Gin cocktails recipes: Hepple gin English favourites

If you venture down to the secret garden, you're sure to be in for a (boozy) surprise...

(Hepple gin)

From now until September, The Goring Hotel’s beautiful secret garden will be home to a living moorland hillock of heather, juniper and wild flowers surrounded by a mini forest of botanicals…all of which is actually a gin bar in disguise.

Award-winning spirits brand Hepple Gin, have created a one-off living bar and gin safari, bringing the soul-restoring Northumberland moors to the five star hotel. The Goring Gin Garden is the place to hide out this summer and enjoy an exclusive gin cocktail, which has been especially created by the Hepple team who are brining the wildness of the north to a corner of Belgravia and a gin experience like no other.

Northside Collins

Hepple Gin stirred with chocolate mint, lemon balm and apple juice topped with soda water. Garnished with sprigs of chocolate mint and lemon balm from the garden.

50ml Hepple Gin
50ml Soda water

Add to pre batch mix of:

50ml chocolate mint/lemon balm tea
50ml cloudy apple juice
5ml citric acid  (made by adding 10g sachet to 100ml water)
10ml sugar syrup
Stirred in a highball glass with ice

Hepple 75

Hepple Gin, elderflower and strawberry syrup and lemon juice crowned with sparkling wine

25ml Hepple gin
15ml elderflower and strawberry syrup 
15ml lemon juice
125ml sparkling wine

Strawberry syrup is made with one cup of strawberries and one cup of sugar left for 24 hours. Add elderflower cordial in a two to one ratio (2 strawberry syrup to 1 elderflower). Ingredients stirred over ice, strain into champagne flute and top up with sparkling wine. Garnish with slice of strawberry.

Cosmopolitan Daisy

Hepple Gin shaken with fresh raspberry syrup, citrus liqueur and lemon juice.

50ml Hepple Gin
10ml Triple Sec

Pre Mix:

15ml Raspberry syrup
15ml Lemon juice
Combine pre mix, Hepple Gin and Triple Sec
Shake on ice
Garnish with fresh raspberry 

Raspberry Syrup: 1 cup of frozen raspberries to 1 cup of sugar left for 24h then add equal amount of lemon juice.

A gin-inspired menu has been specially created by The Goring’s Executive Chef Shay Cooper in collaboration with Hepple founder Valentine Warner. Together they have devised an exciting range of canapés, light bites and dishes, to provide expert food and drink pairings to the gin