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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