Take your G&T up a notch by adding a splash of cold espresso

By Georgina Torbet Published April 10, 2025

Hendrick’s Gin — Andrea Grujic (@by__dre)

We’re still happily vibing with the classic G&T for National Gin & Tonic day, and I am always on the lookout for ways to upgrade my favorite drink. Hendrick’s Gin has some fun suggestions, incorporating ingredients like cold espresso coffee of using distinctive gins to add a bit of extra flair to this classic drink.

Oasium & Tonic

Ingredients:

1 part Hendrick’s OASIUM
3 parts tonic water
Cucumber slice for garnish

Method:

Recommended Videos

Build in a highball glass over ice, and garnish with a slice of cucumber to create this refreshingly curious G&T with NEW Hendrick’s OASIUM.

The Hendrick’s & Tonic

Ingredients:

1 part Hendrick’s Gin
3 parts Premium Tonic Water
3 rounds of Cucumber
Cucumber to Garnish

Method:

Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with cubed ice and lightly stir. Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber and serve. There’s a good reason the Hendrick’s & Tonic, with its cucumber garnish, is so loved. Try the refreshing cocktail and experience the wonder of its rose and cucumber essence for yourself!

Supersonic Gin & Tonic

Ingredients:

2 parts Hendrick’s Gin
1 bar spoon Simple Syrup
1 part Fresh Espresso (left to go cold)
2 parts Premium Tonic Water
Cucumber to garnish

Method:

Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with cubed ice and lightly stir. Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber and serve for a curious Hendrick’s twist on this classic G&T.

Hendrick’s Grand Cabaret & Tonic

Created by Hendrick’s Gin East Coast Ambassador, Erik Andersson

Ingredients:

2 parts Hendrick’s Gin Grand Cabaret
5 parts Premium Tonic*
Cucumber for garnish

Method:

Build in a highball glass over ice and garnish with cucumber slices. Hendrick’s Grand Cabaret & Tonic is a fruitier variation of the classic G&T

*For a Cabaret & Sonic, replace half of the tonic with club soda.

Georgina Torbet

Georgina Torbet is a cocktail enthusiast based in Berlin, with an ever-growing gin collection and a love for trying out new…

Food & Drink

Give your gimlet a herbal twist with this vodka cocktail

Ghost Hill Organic Vodka

The Gimlet is one of those cocktails that is so simple and such a classic that it's easily overlooked. Whilst I lean toward a Gin Gimlet (and I have strong feelings like it should be made with fresh lime juice and sugar syrup rather than a pre-made lime cordial), you can also experiment with different spirits such as the also popular Vodka Gimlet.

The simple recipe is ripe for experimentation though, and especially when you are working with vodka, you have a lot of leeway to incorporate other ingredients to add more interest and unique personality to your drink. This recipe from Ghost Hill Organic Vodka showcases the smooth and clean notes of the spirit while also allowing space for the other ingredients to shine -- not only lime juice and simple syrup, but also the addition of sage leaves for a more herbal note.

Food & Drink

Snoop Dogg wants you to put gin in your Bloody Mary

Still G.I.N. by Dre and Snoop

Plenty of celebs have their own tequila brands, but it's rarer to see interest in gin. Hip hop legends Dre and Snoop are on it though, with a recent launch of their own ultra-premium gin -- and one of the brand's recipe suggestions is a controversial one that I'm hugely in favor of.

The recipe from Still G.I.N. by Dre and Snoop, which, as its name suggests, is a gin from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, is an alternative to the Bloody Mary which you'll sometimes see called a Red Snapper. It replaces the vodka with gin, which is a change that I love -- I find that the sharp, juniper notes of gin do a great job cutting through the thickness of the tomato juice, and help to add a pungent, almost herbal quality to the drink.

Food & Drink

Up your American single malt whiskey game with Minden Mill’s single estate whiskey

Minden Mill has a new American single malt whiskey perfect for Scotch drinkers

Minden Mill

As if you needed a reason to get into American single malt whiskey, the distillers at Minden Mill Distilling just announced the release of Minden Mill American Single Malt Whiskey. Made from locally sourced ingredients near the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the Nevada desert, this is about as far away from Scotland as possible. Yet, you won't find many American single malt whiskeys that taste more like their counterparts from across the pond.
Minden Mill American Single Malt Whiskey

This terroir-driven whiskey is made with 100% estate-grown barley malted on-site. It's mashed with M1 yeast and water from the brand's well outside the distillery. It's distilled in dual, all-copper Forsyth stills crafted in Speyside, Scotland. It's matured for five years in a combination of Oloroso sherry, ex-bourbon, and American oak as well as re-charred wine and sherry butts. All in climate-controlled barrelhouses designed to mimic the temperature and humidity found in Speyside.