The Bramble is a fantastic creation but depends on having a bottle of blackberry liqueur (crème de mûre) handy. If you’ve just been blackberry picking, but haven’t yet made your liqueur, this is just the job. Similar flavour profile, a tad less sweet, and with an intense, inky hue from the blackberries – the fresh version.

Fresh Bramble cocktail

Cocktail

servings

Nicely balanced, intensely coloured cocktail with gin, fresh blackberries (brambles) and lemon. A Bramble for when you’re missing the blackberry liqueur (crème de mûre).

Ingredients

40ml gin
30ml fresh squeezed lemon juice
1⁄2 cup / small handful of fresh blackberries
1 teaspoon damson gin (ideally) or sugar syrup

Directions

Shake all ingredients with ice for a good 20 seconds until the blackberries break down fully
Fine strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with more blackberries