Garden Kitchen Sink Gimlet

August 31, 2015

Garden Kitchen Sink Gimlet

Garden Kitchen Sink Gimlet
This boozy gin cocktail uses up an abundance of mint, cucumber, and blackberries—it's summer in a highball.Matt Taylor-Gross

This boozy gin cocktail uses up an abundance of mint, cucumber, and blackberries—it's summer in a highball.

Garden Kitchen Sink Gimlet
This boozy gin cocktail makes use of an abundance of blackberries, mint, and cucumber—it's summer in a highball glass.
Yield: makes 4 cocktails
Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 cups mint leaves
  • 1⁄2 cup blackberries, plus more for garnish
  • 2 cucumbers, sliced into thin rounds
  • 8 oz. gin
  • 7 oz. fresh lime juice
  • 2 oz. creme de cassis

Instructions

  1. Muddle mint, blackberries, and cucumbers in a cocktail shaker; add gin, lime juice, cassis, and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice and garnish with blackberries and mint.

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