Don’t waste the soaked fruit. There are lots of ways to use this. Add it to your cranberry sauce for Christmas Day (strictly for the grown ups!), use it to top vanilla ice cream or even on porridge for a festive brunch. Add it to microwave chocolate fudge or use it in my fruit tea loaf recipe (skip the soaking in tea stage). I’ve started seeing fresh cranberries these last couple of weeks, so this is the perfect time to get your Cranberry Gin started, if you don’t happen to have some in the freezer from last Christmas! After at least three weeks, you can strain the gin off through a muslin-lined sieve into a measuring jug or bowl.

Beefeater Gin: Pernod Ricard’s flagship gin brand is Beefeater. The brandlaunched strawberry-flavoured Beefeater Pink in 2018and further expanded its portfolio with the debut of a new blood orange-flavoured gin. Rimmer: Bloody Mary and Caesar lovers should outfit their bar with a handy rimmer for salting and sugaring glassware. Either way, we have taken a standard (and perfectly tasty) G&T recipe and made it even more delicious and festive with the addition of cranberry juice and fresh cranberries. Jump to:Soda Water: we suggest using premium Fever Tree Club Soda. You could also use sparkling water from your own Soda Stream machine. Or you can nix the adding the tonic water and have a bottle of tonic water and a bottle of soda water on the side, allowing guests to add the sparkler of their choice after they pour their drink. 🥃 What if I don't like gin? It’s fruity, and not only a touch sweet, but also, with a definite hit of cranberry bitter. The vanilla adds just the merest hint of mellow creaminess to it, barely discernible.

It's very festive. Red cranberry juice, the juniper flavor of the gin... this drink screams "Christmas." Smooth and crisp. The gin blends so well with the cranberry juice and it’s so smooth you won’t even notice so sip responsibly!

Recipe

For garnish, I like to add an orange slice (or an orange twist if I feel fancy), a sprig of fresh rosemary, and a few fresh cranberries. I know that many of you have been following all the alcohol infusions I’ve been making this past year or so. By now, you should all be pros at it (if you weren’t before), and there probably isn’t anything left for me to teach you! This cranberry gin recipe is the result of a happy accident that showed me way to make Christmas liqueurs faster and better than the traditional recipes I had used in the past. cranberry juice – I like to opt for just the classic cranberry juice, but you could try a blend if you want to shake things up. Cranapple would be a great option! What is a good mix with gin? From my testing gin tends to go well with fruit juices. You can do pineapple and orange for a fruity and tropical version. Or if you like something more tart you can mix with grapefruit juice. Experiment with different juices and see what you like best.

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Use it for a gin and tonic. I find it better to use a conventional tonic water rather than one with lots of extra flavourings. Ingredients you’ll need to make our festive Gin and Cranberry Juice recipe. Travel to Taste the World’s Best Gins