UK Finalists' Recipes

 

There were some amazing cocktails produced throughout the UK Regionals, we’ve listed them for you here:
 

GLASGOW WINNING COCKTAILS: 

All Things Nice, Ally Turnbull        

  • 50ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey Vodka
  • Ginger
  • Honeycomb
  • 25ml Lemon
  • Gomme
Muddle ginger add 42BELOW Manuka Honey Vodka, add other ingredients and shake. Serve in a martini glass rimmed with dried crush honeycomb and garnish with a sugar nest.
 

Blushing Lady, Roseanne Ross

  • 40ml 42BELOW Pure
  • 25ml lime
  • 25ml gomme
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • Bunch corriander
Muddle, shake with ice, served in a red pepper with coriander garnish.
 

Peas to Meet You, Meesh Reilly        

  • 50ml 42BELOW Pure
  • Mushy peas
  • 25ml lime juice
  • 25ml gomme
  • 3 slices of green chilli
Muddle peas and chilli, add remaining ingredients and shake well. Strain into a chilled sugar rim rocks glass and garnish with a trumpet of shoestring chip

BELFAST WINNING COCKTAILS:

Unnamed Cocktail - Hayden Lambert

  • 50mls 42BELOW Pure
  • 50mls homemade tomato puree
  • 25mls Passion fruit puree
  • 15mls freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 10mls Sugar syrup
 

Blushing Lady - Lisa McCarron

  • 50ml 42BELOW Pure
  • 10ml fresh lemon
  • 20 fresh white grapefruit
  • 15ml pomegranate juice
  • 10ml orgeat syrup
  • Dash rose water

Holy Water - John O’Reily

  • 50ml 42BELOW Pure
  • 10ml 42BELOW Passionfruit
  • Spoon gooseberry conserve
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 50ml Aspall cider
  • 2 dashes peach bitters
 

BRIGHTON WINNING COCKTAILS:

Christmas in New Zealand, Paul de Newtown

  • 35ml 42Below Passionfruit vodka
  • 10ml 42Below Manuka Honey vodka
  • 5ml Organic light runny honey
  • 5 Coffee beans
  • 4 Cloves
  • 3 Cardamom pods
  • Orange zest
Pour into a large Brandy balloon and blaze stirring honey until dissolved.
 

Lilikoi, Rachael Miles

  • 25ml 42Below Passionfruit vodka
  • 25ml Fairfield Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
  • 12.5ml Apricot Brandy
  • 3 Dashes peach bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lemon snap
 

What’s the Score Feijoa, Tom Noviss

  • 37.5ml 42BELOW Feijoa vodka
  • 12.5ml Xante Pear Cognac
  • 1/3 Avocado
  • Squeeze Lemon
  • Dash of Vanilla Gomme
  • The Foam
  • Vanilla & Chilli Gomme
  • Fresh Pink Grapefruit
  • Egg white
  • Gelatine
  • 42BELOW Passionfruit Vodka
Muddle avocado, add other ingredients, shake and strain into a martini glass. Top with foam, garnish with slice chilli and dehydrated Campari rim.
 

BRISTOL WINNING COCKTAILS:

Mainland Sour, Milton Haworth

  • 50ml 42BELOW Feijoa vodka
  • 20ml fresh pineapple juice
  • 20ml fresh lemon juice
  • 10ml sugar syrup (2:1 ratio)
  • 1/2 an egg white
  • 3ml Bitter Truth Celery Bitters
Shake and fine strain into empty sours glass. Garnish with thin slice of celery
 

Runcible Buck, Harry Glockler

  • 42ml 42BELOW Feijoa vodka
  • 10ml Poire William
  • 15ml Bramley & Gage quince
  • Ginger Ale
Put four ice cubes and two squeezed lemon wedges in a sling glass, add other ingredients except Ginger Ale and stir. Top with ginger ale, garnish with a physalis, cherry, pinapple leaf and star fruit.
 

Japanese Feijoa Infusion, Sarah Messamer

  • 50ml of 42BELOW Feijoa
  • 10ml of ginger cordial
  • 15ml of lychee liqueur
  • Add a drizzle of green tea + some infused leaves
  • A few drops of lemon juice
  • Lemon Peel
  • Shake and double strain in a frosted coupette.
 

CARDIFF WINNING COCKTAILS: 

Bittersweet Symphony, Christos Kyriakides

  • 40ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey vodka
  • 12.5ml Grapefruit liqueur
  • 4 Lemon Verbena leaves
  • 1 Barspoon Mascarpone cheese
  • 5ml Orange blossom honey
Shake and strain into a Martini Glass, garnish with a floating lemon wheel with a sprig of lemon verbena.
 

Poor Man’s Manuka, James Hitchens

  • 50ml 42BELOW Pure vodka
  • 50ml Cranberry reduction
  • 12.5ml Laphroig
  • 1 Barspoon of runny honey
  • 25ml Lime iuice
  • 1/3 of a Cuban cigar
Combine the first 5 ingredients and shake with the smoke from the cigar. Serve long and burn with absinthe and orange.
 

Fiery Feijoa, Jonty Dexter

  • 40ml 42BELOW Feijoa
  • 20ml St Germain Elderflower Liqueur
  • 15ml Lemoncello
  • ½ Birdseye chilli
Stir ingredients over ice and strain into an Absinthe washed Martini glass. Garnish with a Lemon twist discard.
 

EDINBURGH WINNING COCKTAILS:

Bao Lattitude, Joey Medrington

  • 25ml 42BELOW Pure Vodka
  • 25ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey Vodka
  • 20ml Pineapple juice
  • 20ml Organic Ginger beer
  • 25ml Lime
  • Dash Angostura bitters
  • 1 Egg white
Shaken and strained into a coupette, garnish with atomized barrel aged bitters.
 

4-2 The Floor, Metinee Kongsrivilai

  • 50ml boiling water
  • 1tsp Jewellen Apple Tea
  • 12.5ml Lemon Juice
  • 12.5ml Gomme
Stirred and poured over dry ice, spritz with Absinthe.
 

Nutter Butter, Paul Graham

  • 50ml 42BELOW infused with Peanut Butter
  • 30ml Banana and cinnamon puree
  • 12.5ml Lemon Juice
  • 1tsp Honey
Shake and strain into a tea cup, garnish with 3 banana slices.
 

LEEDS Winning Cocktails:

The Bumbles, James Hill

  • 40ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey vodka
  • 20ml Barenjager,
  • 1 dash of Angostura bitters
  • 10ml Lemon juice
  • 50ml Passionfruit juice
Shaken and served in a honey pot over crushed ice, garnished with a honey stirrer
 

The Green Monster, Adam McKenna

  • 50ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey vodka
  • 25ml Lemon Juice
  • 12.5ml Elderflower Cordial
  • 2 barspoons Absinthe Sugar
  • 1 Egg White
Shake, strain and garnish with Star Anise
 

Tea & Milk, James Coston

The Tea

  • 30ml 42BELOW Passion Vodka
  • 15ml British Lemon Juice,
  • 5ml Cointreau

The Sugar

  • 25ml British Runny Honey

The Milk

  • 25ml of 42 Below Passion Vodka,
  • 20ml Rhubarb liquor,
  • Dash of Yorkshire Rhubarb Bitters,
  • 15ml simple syrup
  • 60ml Semi Skimmed Yorkshire Milk
Strain The Tea ingredients through a Yorkshire Tea Bag into a Boston Glass, dispose of the tea bag, then add honey, shake & strain into three old floral teacups. Shake and strain The Milk ingredients into a small floral milk jug. Serving with high tea.
 

LIVERPOOL WINNING COCKTAILS:

My City: Bitter & Sweet, Pedro Hunter

  • 25ml Tate and Lyle golden syrup gomme
  • 50ml 42BELOW Kiwi
  • 10ml Giffard rhubarb
  • 20ml Lemon juice
Throw together old style into two massive mixing jugs, strain into big stemmed martini glasses
 

Cherry Bitter Foam

  • 6 dashes cherry bitters
  • 2 barspoons Maraschinio juice 25ml egg white
  • 5ml cranberry juice
Shake till you get a foam, then spoon on top of previous liquid. Garnish with a nice picture of liverpool a cherry and a jobseekers allowance application form.
 

Six o'clock Fizz, Neil Sutton

  • 75ml 42BELOW Passionfruit
  • 2 sachets Pickled ginger
  • 50ml Sav Blanc
  • 25ml Lemon juice

Shake and strain into a soda siphon

  • Grapefruit Foam
  • 50ml Grapefruit juice
  • 2 egg whites
  • 32.5ml gomme
Combine and shake hard
 

Passion for Vodka, Laurie Gardner

  • 40ml 42BELOW Passionfruit
  • 20ml Giffard Pomplemousse
  • 20ml Fresh lemon juice
  • 5ml Gomme
  • 1 Dash orange bitters
Shake and double strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an orange zest
 

MANCHESTER WINNING COCKTAILS:

Pea-wi Juice, Adam Binnersley

  • 40ml 42 BELOW Kiwi
  • 10ml Apple liqueur
  • 42 Peas 
  • Dash of Gomme
  • Squeeze of Lime
  • 50ml Pressed Apple juice
  • 4 Mint leaves
Blend all ingredients until smooth, strain off the froth and stir in a Boston glass to chill. Serve straight up in a martini glass, garnished with a pea pod.
 

21st Century Bloody Mary, Greg Adams

  • 2oz 42BELOW Pure infused with bacon
  • 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
Stir and strain into a martini glass with a celery salt rim
Top with tomato, basil and garlic foam and garnish with a slice of tomato and celery cutlery.
 

1942 Knickerbocker Sunday, Joannes Vagoethem

  • 30ml 42BELOW Pure
  • 10ml Amarula
  • 10ml Vanilla Syrup
  • 2 Barspoons of vanilla ice cream
  • 20ml Milk
  • 10ml Double Cream Shake
Shake and strain in a Hershey's chocolate coated sling glass. Garnish with whipped cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, chocolate wafer and chocolate dust.
 

NOTTINGHAM WINNING COCKTAIL:

Morning After Martini, Rob Wodd

  • 42ml 42 BELOW Pure vodka
  • 5ml 42 BELOW Manuka Honey vodka
  • 5ml 42 BELOW Passionfruit vodka
  • 10ml Cointreau Spirit of Citrus
  • 10ml Pure Yuzu juice
  • 10ml (808) Trading Co. Sweet Maraschino syrup
  • 3 zests of Pink Grapefruit
  • 6 drops of Buttered Toas
Shake and strain into a martini glass.
 

WEST LONDON WINNING COCKTAILS:

42 Blazer, Danny Winter

  • 40ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey
  • 20ml Benedictine
  • 20ml Lemon juice
  • 10ml Clove infused gomme
  • 10ml Gomme
  • 2 Blackberrys
  • 1 Orange twist
  • 1 Lemon twist
  • 1 Earl Grey tea bag
Add ingredients to large brandy balloon and blaze. Pour into a teapot with tea bag and dilute with warm water.
 

Red Router, Stuart Fritz

  • 50ml 42BELOW Feijoa
  • 12.5ml Mandarin Nepoleon
  • 25ml Lemon Juice
  • 25ml Beetroot
  • 1 spoon Homemade Thai Basil sugar syrup
  • 1 Cooked beetroot
Muddle the beetroot and add all other ingredients, shake and strain.
 

The Pineapple Starfish, Bex Almquist

  • 50ml 42BELOW Pure
  • 20ml Pineapple juice
  • 10ml Lime juice
  • 5ml Coco Lopez
  • 5ml Gomme
Muddle 1 star anis and 2 chunks of pineapple, pour in remaining ingredients, shake and strain into a coupette. Garnish with a star anis and orange twist discard.
 

EAST VS WEST LONDON WINNING COCKTAILS:

42 Blazer, Danny Winter

  • 40ml 42BELOW Manuka Honey
  • 20ml Benedictine
  • 20ml Lemon juice
  • 10ml Clove infused gomme
  • 10ml Gomme
  • 2 Blackberries
  • 1 Orange twist
  • 1 Lemon twist
  • 1 Earl Grey teabag
Add ingredients to large brandy balloon, blaze then pour into a teapot with teabag and dilute with warm water.
 

Red Router, Stuart Fritz

  • 50ml 42BELOW Feijoa
  • 12.5ml Mandarin Nepoleon
  • 25ml Lemon Juice
  • 25ml Beetroot
  • 1 Spoon Thai Basil sugar syrup (homemade)
  • 1 Cooked beetroot
Muddle the beetroot and add all other ingredients, shake and strain.
 

The Pineapple Starfish, Bex Almquist

  • 50ml 42BELOW Pure
  • 20ml Pineapple juice
  • 10ml Lime juice
  • 5ml Coco Lopez
  • 5ml Gomme
Muddle 1 star anise and 2 chunks of pineapple, pour in remaining ingredients, shake and strain into a coupette. Garnish with a star anise and orange twist discard.
 

THE EAST

Play of the Day, Andy Mil

  • 42BELOW Feijoa
  • Vanilla bitters
  • Coffee bitters
  • Cloves
  • Cinnamon
Set alight blue blazer style, serve in a rocks glass on a 'rugby pitch' with an ipod playing Jonny Wilkinson's winning drop kick from the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
 

The Devil You Don't, Julian de Feral

  • 50ml 42BELOW Feijoa
  • 25ml Orange & Carrot cordial
  • 20ml Golden Devil Syrup
  • 15ml Lemon juice
  • 5ml Sugar syrup
  • 2 Dashes Peychaud bitters
  • 150ml Water
Heat gently, pour into a toddy glass. Garnish with a carrot stick and a lemon.
 
 
 
 
 

 

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