Gosling’s cocktails

Gosling’s Gold and Black Seal are great for rum cocktails so we’ve collected a few from some leading UK bartenders to give you inspiration when it comes to trying new flavours in your mixed drinks.

Dark ‘n Stormy Twists

By Ashleigh Cilliers, Hyde & Co, Bristol

Tropical Tempest

Ingredients

10ml Lime Juice

30ml Pineapple & Chilli Syrup*

Top Soda

Float 50ml Gosling’s

Method

Build in a highball over ice before floating the Goslings on top. Garnish with a lime wedge

* Pineapple & Chilli Syrup: Heat 250g of pineapple juice (optionally strained through a coffee filter to clarify it) with 125g of caster sugar and a good pinch of crushed red chilli flakes (I use 2.5g). Stir until fully dissolved and warmed through. Leave to cool before straining out the chilli flakes.

Storm in Queen’s Park – a mashup of a classic D & S and a Queen’s Park Swizzle

50ml Gosling’s

8ish Fresh Mint Leaves

20ml Lime Juice

10ml Simple Syrup*

Crushed ice

Top Ginger Ale

8-10 dashes The Bitter Truth Old Time Aromatic Bitters (on top)

Method

Build all ingredients except the bitters and ginger ale in a highball. Churn with a spoon, top with ginger ale and finish with 8-10 dashes of The Bitter Truth Old Time Aromatic Bitters. Garnish with a handsome mint sprig.

Seal of Approval – a reworked version of one of the specials Hyde & Co Head Bartender Asia di Martille (insta – @woody_stir) created recently.

30ml Gosling’s

25ml Passionfruit Liqueur

25ml Cooled filter coffee

5ml Demerara syrup (or to taste)**

Method

Add ingredients to a mixer and stir before straining into a stemmed cocktail glass.

** Demerara syrup: Combine 1 part (by weight) boiling water with 2 parts demerara sugar and stir until fully combined.

Goslings DNS Twist Recipes

By Chellsea Dagger, Yard and Coop, Manchester

IRN Storm

125ml Iron Bru

20ml lime juice

50ml Goslings Black Seal rum

Method

Stir the Iron Bru and lime juice together over ice and float 50ml goslings in top. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Storm-a-rhu’in. 

30ml Goslings Black Seal rum

20ml Rhubarb liqueur

25ml lime juice

125ml Jamaica ginger beer

Method

Shake the Goslings rum, rhubarb liqueur and lime juice over ice.   Fill a tall glass with cubed ice and pour 125ml of old Jamaica ginger beer over the ice.  Float the rum & rhubarb mixture, garnish with rhubarb and lime.