Yeah, you read that right. While so many brown spirits are taking center stage on these long, cold eves, we want to remind everyone about the joys of junipery gin this winter. While OF COURSE you are allowed to drink icy gin and tonics all year long, here are a few other ideas for a most favorite of clear spirits.

Warm Gin & Tonic

Ingredients:

1.5 oz gin (Try Peach Street Distillers Jackelope Gin!)

1 oz tonic syrup

.5 oz sugar syrup

Directions:

1. Pour gin, tonic syrup, and sugar syrup into a glass of your choice. Use a bar spoon to combine these ingredients.

2. Pour hot water over the top, tasting occasionally to see whether or not the ratio is right for you.

3. If you would like, you can then garnish this hot take on a gin and tonic with a lemon twist or an orange wheel.

OR, try splashing a wee bit of gin in your hot toddy or hot chocolate. We promise, it’s good!

Here’s a fun one called the Golden Purl…(why does that make us think of Greek gods or Pirates of the Caribbean?? Anyway…)

Ingredients

• 1 cup cider

• 1 tablespoon maple syrup

• 1.5 oz gin

• 2 dashes orange bitters

• Garnish: orange peel

Directions

1. Heat up the cider on the stove until hot, then stir in the maple syrup until it dissolves.

2. Pour into a mug, add the gin, and stir.

3. Top with the bitters.

4. Garnish with an orange peel.

5. Mmmm, sip slowly (it might be hot!) and let it warm your insides.

More info about Peach Street Distillers’ ginny gin gin:

“Hand-picked juniper berries from the high desert of Colorado’s western slope are infused in our Armangac Gin still to create the heart of our Gin series.

This is a grain based spirit of barley, wheat, and corn. After making vodka we pull some aside to make batches of gin.
After macerating the botanicals…
-lemon and lime zest
-coriander
-Angelica
-orris root
-cinnamon
-licorice root
-bunch of juniper berries
…we distill the botanicals in the still with the vodka.
Notes of lemon and lime are up front and easy to find.
Finishing in juniper makes it obviously gin.
The middle is filled with cinnamon and coriander for a bright spice that’s easy to drink on ice or in your favorite cocktail!”

We hope you’ll try some of these, and let us know in the comments what you thought!