Cocktails

Pour it bold

Three classics, each with a twist from the jungle.

Draft recipe

Curry Leaf Tonic

Highball glass

Elderflower tonic and cracked green cardamom balance the gin’s warm, herbal botanicals. A slapped curry leaf sprig and a thin lime wheel finish it.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Tygerassa Gin
  • 4 oz elderflower tonic, chilled
  • 2 green cardamom pods, lightly cracked
  • 1 small sprig fresh curry leaves
  • 1 thin lime wheel

Method

  1. Drop the cracked cardamom pods into a highball glass and fill it with ice.
  2. Add Tygerassa Gin, top with elderflower tonic and stir once.
  3. Slap the curry leaf sprig between your palms to release its aroma, and tuck it in with a thin lime wheel.
Draft recipe

Coconut Negroni

Rocks glass

The whole Negroni is washed with virgin coconut oil, so it turns silky and round, and the bitter edge softens without losing its bite.

Ingredients

  • 3 oz coconut fat-washed Negroni (prep below)
  • Mandarin orange peel
  • Toasted coconut chip (optional)
Prep firstCoconut fat-washed Negroni (makes 8 drinks)
You need
  • 8 oz Tygerassa Gin
  • 8 oz Campari
  • 8 oz sweet vermouth
  • 3 oz virgin coconut oil
Steps
  1. Warm the coconut oil until it has just melted.
  2. Combine it with the gin, Campari and vermouth in a wide, sealed container and shake well.
  3. Rest at room temperature for 4 hours, shaking now and then.
  4. Freeze overnight, lift off the solid coconut fat, and strain the Negroni through a coffee filter into a clean bottle. Keep it in the fridge.

Method

  1. Stir the washed Negroni with ice until well chilled.
  2. Strain over one large cube in a rocks glass.
  3. Express the mandarin peel over the drink and drop it in. Add a toasted coconut chip on the rim if you like.
Draft recipe

Saffron Gimlet

Coupe glass

A silky Gimlet with a few threads of saffron laid on the foam. As it sits, their gold bleeds slowly across the top of the drink.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Tygerassa Gin
  • 3/4 oz fresh lime juice
  • 3/4 oz simple syrup
  • 1/2 oz egg white (or aquafaba)
  • 3 to 4 saffron threads

Method

  1. Shake the gin, lime juice, simple syrup and egg white hard without ice for 15 seconds.
  2. Add ice and shake again until well chilled.
  3. Double strain into a chilled coupe and let the foam settle for a moment.
  4. Lay the saffron threads gently on the foam and serve. The yellow bleeds outward as the drink sits.

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