Blackberry Bramble
Take advantage of all the sweet blackberries this season with this sweet and tangy blackberry bramble cocktail recipe! It's a gorgeous summer cocktail made with fresh lemon juice, your fave gin, a little blackberry simple syrup, and fresh berries. Top it with bubbly ginger beer and enjoy it ice cold!
Servings: 2 cocktails
Calories: 155kcal
Ingredients
Blackberry Simple Syrup:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup blackberries fresh or frozen
Blackberry Bramble
- 4 ounces gin
- 2 ounce lemon juice
- 4 ounces blackberry simple syrup or créme de mûre
- Ginger beer or soda water for topping
- Lemon slices and fresh blackberries for garnish
Instructions
Blackberry Simple Syrup:
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add the water, sugar, and blackberries.
- Bring the simple syrup to a simmer and let simmer until the sugar completely dissolves. Bring the temperature to low and continue to extract that blackberry flavor for another 5 minutes.
- Strain the blackberries from the simple syrup using a fine mesh sieve and let it cool completely in a heat safe container.
Blackberry Bramble:
- In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake together the gin, blackberry syrup, and lemon juice and strain into two cocktail glasses filled with crushed ice.
- Drizzle ½ ounce of blackberry simple syrup over the top of the cocktails. Top with the ginger beer and garnish with a lemon slice and blackberries.
- Enjoy cold!
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 155kcal | Carbohydrates: 110g | Protein: 1g | Sodium: 39mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 103g