Check out our ultimate cocktail guide for you to hone your cocktail making skills. Now we want to crank it up a notch! We have recently had a thing for brine-y, pickle-y, savoury things so why not in cocktails? For World Cocktail Day in May, we've developed and adjusted a few drinks for you if you want to try something slightly different.

First up is a take on a martini to ease us in, using Kuemmel (caraway liqueur) - it has a slightly sweet but noticeably caraway note, perfect to be sipped very cold. Serve with a lemon peel to add a citrus kick on the nose.

Here is our SEASIDE STREAK:

Ingredients

 *Did you know, we just won Gold Outstanding at the International Wine & Spirits Competition - only 22 gins worldwide received that honour! 

How to Make

Stir with ice in a mixing glass/pint glass/wide glass, then strain into a coupe/martini glass. Garnish with a lemon peel.

Next up my personal favourite, I have played with it many times over the last few weeks and just yesterday found my perfect version. I am using dill pickle juice, just from an ordinary dill pickle jar from the supermarket, and it's just divine.

It is the DIRTY BRIGHTON WEEKENDER:

Ingredients

How to Make

Shake all ingredients with ice, then double strain (use both a hawthorn strainer as well as a sieve) into a chilled Nick & Nora glass (or any nice glass you like, really).

Serve with a cucumber twist/strip, or perhaps a pickle. LUSH!!

Finally, for all of you fans of bitter drinks out there, we have created a Seaside twist on a Negroni. I infused our Pavilion Strength with a Nori sheet (I used one sheet for about 250ml gin) and let it infuse for about a week - to be honest, next time I'll infuse for less time, perhaps 3 days, that should absolutely suffice. Here is our NORI NERGONI:

Ingredients

How to Make

Stir with ice in a mixing glass/pint glass/wide glass, then strain into an ice filled (or maybe you have one of those fancy mega ice cubes?) tumbler. Add a wedge of orange to give it a citrusy twist. Enjoy!

HAPPY WORLD COCKTAIL DAY!

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