Bramble

Tanqueray gin, lemon juice, sugar and blackberry liqueur are the main ingredients in the Bramble. Despite being a 1980's creation, today it's regarded as a modern masterpiece.

Bramble

Ingredients

  • 45ml

    Tanqueray Gin

  • 10ml

    Blackberry Liqueur

  • 10ml

    Simple Syrup

  • 20ml

    Lemon Juice

  • 1

    Lemon Wedge (Garnish)

  • 1

    Blackberry (Garnish)

0 units of alcohol per serve

Equipment

  • 1

    Rocks Glass

  • 1

    Ice Scoop

  • 1

    Jigger

  • 1

    Cocktail Shaker

  • 1

    Hawthorne Strainer

  • 1

    Tongs

Serves:
1

Method

  • Preparation
    1. Muddle the Blackberries in a Cocktail Shaker.
    2. Add the rest of the ingredients and shake with ice.
    3. Strain into a Rocks Glass filled with crushed ice.
    4. Drizzle Blackberry Liqueur.
    5. Garnish with a Blackberry and a Lemon Wedge
  • Alcohol content

    Alcohol content:

    15g per serve

Interesting facts

Despite being used in this modern classic, Blackberry Liqueur, is not as widely distributed as you may think. If you don't have it, then substitute it with a Raspberry Liqueur.

History of the drink

In the 1980's, Dick Bradsell a bartender at Fred's Club in London's Soho, invented the Bramble. Nothing in Dick's opinion is more British than a blackberry when it comes to making a British-themed drink. When he was a child he remembers wriggling through the brambles to reach the fruit that grows wild all throughout the UK.