I’m lying on the sun lounger in my garden, sipping a cocktail, watching the bees visiting the clover and feeling less guilty about not mowing the lawn. It’s nearly summer holidays here, but I feel that awful pressure to get stuff done before the kids’s break up. But just like the kids, I need to wind down and my brain has been protesting, so yesterday I caved in….
I think the bees would approve of this cocktail – honeyed fizz with a fruity, brambly kick.
This is a lovely, refreshing, fruity without being sickly cocktail, so if you’re sickening of Pimms or tiring of G and T, I think this could be your perfect summer drink. The natural sweetness of the Appletiser Apple and Blackcurrant and the honey perfectly balance the bitterness of the gin and lemon.
Blackcurrant Gin Fizz
- 50ml gin
- 25ml lemon juice
- 1 tsp honey
- Apple and Blackcurrant Appletiser
- Fill a tumbler glass with crushed ice
- Pour the gin over the top
- Mix the lemon and honey together, add to the glass and stir
- Top with Apple and Blackcurrant Appletiser
- Decorate with a slice of lemon and bramble
You could have this as a short drink or a long one. I liked mine over lots of ice, it was a great cooler after gardening. It would make a sophisticated cocktail served over less ice in a martini glass too.
I love a refreshing Limoncello Collins!
I don’t drink alcohol, but I love Summer Fruits and any blackcurrant drinks. My partner loves a mojito though.. he’s the drinker.
minty mojito
Strawberry-Lemon Mojitos
bloody mary
I like pina coladas….(and getting caught in the rain)…haha!
I love Pina Colada and Pimms and lemonade
Pimms is my ultimate summer drink
Champagne cocktail!
Martini
long island iced tea
I love the new pimms strawberry
martini
a delicious mojito
Gin lemonade!
A simple Gin and Tonic with a frozen slice of lemon in
A refreshing Mojito !!
My all-time favourite, not matter which season, is Flying Kangaroo, but in summer I also really like Caipirinha as it’s so refreshing and a little zingy.
Oh I say this looks a bit delicious and I don’t even like gin. I like advocat and lemonade (old skool!)
I love gin!
Tequila Sunrise
I love that recipe – love a g&t but it’s nice to put a different spin on it in the summer
pimms x
Got to be Pimms!
I love a strawberry daquari made with fresh strawberries
Fat Frog
Has to be pimms 🙂
Long Island Iced Tea for me
I like a nice Pimms and lemonade on occasion but my favourite drink is definitely a gin and tonic
Pimms
Pimms
Limocello and Prosecco is my current tipple!
An old fashioned Pimms with lemonade.
Pimms and Lemonade!
Strawberry dacquiri
pimms and sour lemonade xx fab giveaway x
I love a Pimms and lemonade
PIMMS!
Margarita!
Pimms and lemonade
I think it would have to be Mojito’s in the sunshine…. Ahhhhhh
Pimms and homemade lemonade
Pimm’s. Made properly.
pimms and lemonade by far
Gin and Tonic
mojito
Mojito
I love a raspberry mojito – lovely twist on the original!
I love Pimms 🙂
love iced tea
got to be pimms
I love a mojito 🙂
Strawberry Daquiri
Pimms as long as it has plenty of fresh fruit and cucumber and a twist of borage leaves (basil and Mint can do at a pinch)
Strawberry dacquiri
Oooh I’d have to say a “Miami Vice” which is an awesome cocktail that we had in Dominican on our honeymoon! Well, we had all kinds of cocktails to be honest!
A woo woo
Cuba Libre in a tall glass
I love Gin & Tonic
Long Island Ice Tea
I’m a Strawberry Daiquiri girl through and through, could drink a bucketful of it, so utterly thirst quenching!
Mojito
A French Martini!
Caiprinha
I love a Long Island Ice Tea with plenty of ice!
Pina Colada is my favourite.x
Lemonade spritzer
cannot beat a Pina Colada – with an umbrella of course
Pimms and lemonade..yum!
Sex on the beach
mojito
i love a cheeky vimto
Not sur if its a cocktail but I love Sangria
strawberry daiquiri
A virgin mojito
Nice Long Island ice tea
French martini!
G and tea for me
Gina and tonic, sorry to be boring
Tom Collins
Gin and elderflower with soda.
Apple, elderflower & mint sparkle – non alcoholic and really refreshing 🙂
Long island iced tea, although I can’t have too many at once as they are very alcoholic!
A nice cold pimms
Oh boy. . gotta be Pimms but made with tonic instead of lemmmingaid. It has more of a punch we find. . Pimms time yet?
A passionfruit mojito
Mojito
Mojito all the way!!!!
Love a nice pina colada with proper coconut cream! Delicious
Tequila sunrise xx
Pimms
Pimms 🙂
Pina Colada
Love a nice cold Long Island Iced Tea
white russian
A Tom Collins!
I like pimms
Strawberry Daiquiri. x
Rum Punch
A blue lagoon x
A Pimms with all the trimmings, or a mojito
Pina colada
Got to be a mojito
bucks fizz
Kirsch Royale
Tequila Sunrise – love the colour
Aperol Spritz! Yummy!
I love Woo Woo
Mojito
pina colada
Pimms and lemonade Its my fav summer drink!
Cocoa Spicce: Captain Morgan, Malibu and lemonade
pimms with lemonade
A G & T with strawberry rather than lemon
Strawberry Daiquiri – but I do like to try lots of different ones from time to time.
Long Island Iced Tea!
Has to be Pimms!
I’ve never been a huge fan of cocktails but there is something lovely about sitting outside in the evening sun enjoying a refreshing beverage after a hard slog in the garden
pimms for me with loads of fruit and ice
Has to be my pina coladas xx
I love Pina Colada x
I love a classic Mojito
Got to be a Pimms and lemonade, first sign of summer for me
I love ‘An Afternoon in the Woods’ – it’s got Earl grey tea in it.
A long island ice tea
A Jellybaby or Purple Rain.
virgin mohito…as I’m pregnant at the moment!
Long Island Ice Tea
Tequila Sunrise
It would be a Kir Royale for me.
Harvey Wallbangar
pina coladas
I love martinis
Pimms with all the trimmings!
Long island iced tea
Long vodka, delicious!
Mojito
Has to be Pimms for me x
Pina Colada
harvey wallbanger
mojito
Daquiri!
I love a mojito x
Its got to be a Cosmopolitan 🙂 Love them x
Mojitos. they are so refreshing!
Long Island Ice tea 🙂
Mojitos!
i like archers and lemonade
Has to be Mojito
I like Pimms
I like a Bellini in the summer
Pimms xx
Pimms
Anything with PIMMS in it 🙂
I love a raspberry daiquiri 🙂
Rum and coke
Long Island Iced Tea
Peach Bellini
gin and orange (BEST)
Cinzano and tonic for me with ice and a slice
Mojito
Prosecco with some elderberry sirup or liquor
A lovely strawberry daiquiri
tequila sunrise lots of ice and a straw
I am a little bit fond of a daiquiri!
Piña colada is my favourite summer cocktail
frozen strawberry daiquiri !
I love strawberry daiquiris
Gin Sling
Pina colada
I like a nice Bucks Fizz
Cosmo
I like strawberry daiquiris, but I’d be game to trying other varieties of berries or fruit. I bet a mango and kiwi daiquiri would be amazing.
Mojito
A Mojito,it’s so refreshing,you have to watch how many you have as they tend to go down rather too easily,I speak from experience !
Pina colada 🙂
i dunno if this counts but my summer drink is sangria 🙂
Mojito.
Ooo its got to be a refreshing Mojito 🙂
pina colada
For me you can’t beat a large G&T in a very tall glass with loads of ice and some raspberries!
My favourite is raspberry daiquiri made with crushed ice
A Strawberry Daquari
A nice mojito
An Eldderflower Collins, without doubt!!! 🙂
Blood orange bloody mary x
Pimms
Strawberry daquari
Pimms and lemonade
Raspberry Mojito
Lidl pimms and lemonade and anything else I can find to throw in
I love a crushed ice / frozen strawberry daiquiri
Pina colada – the taste of summer!
Cherry Daiquiri
pimms , of course
Pimms and lemonade is my favourite summer tipple.
Pimms
ramos gin fizz!
I don’t drink and it isn’t that easy to find many good no alcohol cocktails! x
Pimms for me
PIMMS & LEMONADE WITHICE AND A SLICE OF LIME
purple rain
Pina Colada
mojitos yum
Gin and the new Rose j2O
Martini – shaken, not stirred of course! 😉
I love the frozen cocktails that you can buy especially the raspberry vodka sorbet which I add fresh raspberries to 🙂
Anything fizzy and pink.
I love Pina Colada
Margaritas
I don’t drink alchol but I love orange juice with lots of ice. My grown up daaughter loves white russian though!.
Bellini
strawberry daquiri
A French Martini
purple rain
purple rain
Pimms and Lemonade
Mojito!
I can’t resist a Strawberry Daiquiri.
Pina Colada
Strawberry-Lemon Mojitos
I’m a pina colada girl
Shandy either Guinness or Export
pina coladas
Mojito!
Strawberry daiquiri
Yummy pina colada 🙂 x
A long PImms – I love the stuff
Mai Thai! Brings back so many memories. Xx
Has to be a strawberry woo woo for me 🙂 x
long island tea!!!
Cosmopolitan
Mint Mojito
its got to be pimms
I love a Mojito!
It would have to be the cosmopolitan cocktail
Love a Colorado cooler
PINA COLADA
I love a strawberry daquiri
Kelly Ellen Hirst
Pimms 🙂 add loads of fruit and you can convince yourself its good for you!
strawberry daiquiri
Martini
Strawberry Daiquiri
Strawberry Mojito
i love a classic pimms
Mojito is just so refreshing
Starwberry Daiquiri (only if really strawberries though!) is indulgent
Pina Colada!
A mojito
Mojito
Limocello and Prosecco, yum 🙂
Pina Colada
Mojito
Wine spritzer
pimms
strawberry dacheris
Vodka and tonic
I love a Mojito, so refreshing!
I normally just drink appletiser but I do like the occasional woowoo 🙂
Lovely Mojito
Tom Collins!
Apple Martini
Mint mojito
A kir royale but with pink cava & strawberry puree (fresh from the garden strawberries of course!)
VODKA & RUSSIA TONIC
Long Island ice tea
Mojito!
A strawberry mojito
Elderflower Fizz
I love woowoo’s
I love Pimms with lots of summer fruits
Long island iced tea
Starwberry Daiquiri
Spicy Virgin Mary on the rocks
strawberry daiquiri. fruity and fresh every time.
mojito
I love a Blue Lagoon. Lots of ice and so refreshing xx
I love Pimms’n’ anything! plus ice…
pimms
I love a blue lagoon on a nice warm summer evening
Mojitos! 🙂
Strawberry-Lemon Mojitos
Pimms is my fav
Definitely Pimms x
Pina Colanda, think I need a re-vamp.
I love strawberry daiquiri
oh i do enjoy a nice Strawberry Daquiri
A raspberry frozen mojito 😀
Mojitos are nice and refreshing in Summer
Margarita is my favourite
Mojitos
Mojito, refreshing, love the mint
Anything with strawberries!
Cosmo!
Strawberry Daiquiri
never had a drink like this as i only drink a small cider.
I love a strawberry daiquiri made with my lovely home grown fruit:-)
pina colada
appletini!
St Clements with lots of crushed ice
pina coladas are my favourite. x
Caipirinia is my fave, I think that’s how you spell it 🙂
Kir with ice is my favourite
pimms xx
I can’t say no to a Pimms
Strawberry Mojitos
Woo Woo!!
I love a woo woo
mojito
I love Pina Colada. In fact I like anything with Pineapple and Coconut in it.
I love a Pina Colada, reminds me of sunshine holidays 🙂
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