Featuring two of easytalk’s favorite North Carolina seasonal releases, 1000 Cheers, from David Bowen, is a tropical holiday-spiced twist on a classic gimlet. The Hackney Distillery’s 1000 Piers Winter Tide Gin provides a backbone of hibiscus, orange and cranberry, and the concentrated Cheerwine Holiday Punch brings the tropical notes of pineapple and ginger to the mix.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces 1000 Piers Winter Tide Gin
- ounce freeze-concentrated Cheerwine Holiday Punch
- .5 ounce lime juice
Freeze-concentrated Cheerwine Holiday Punch
- 12 ounces Cheerwine Holiday Punch
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake hard for 15-20 seconds.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe.
Freeze-concentrated Cheerwine Holiday Punch
- Empty 12 ounces of Cheerwine Holiday Punch into a wide-mouthed freezer-safe container, cover and freeze until solid (alternatively, freeze in ice cube trays).
- Place a cheesecloth-lined strainer over a measuring cup and place the frozen punch cubes into the strainer.
- Place on the counter to thaw.
- Once 4 ounces of concentrated syrup has collected, discard the remaining ice, bottle the syrup, and store it in the fridge for up to a week.
