Happy Friday everyone! I hope you had a great week. Is everyone excited for Easter? We are going to a brunch at a wine bar on Sunday, so I am excited for that!

Today, I wanted to share with you one of my recent obsessions: The Cucumber Rickey Cocktail.

I have this cocktail book sitting on my bar cart, and I had honestly never used it, so I decided to open it one night and see what I could make with ingredients I had on-hand. I found this really interesting gin cocktail that looked good, so I gave it a try. Note: I am not a big gin person, so even if you don’t like gin, you will probably like this drink.

The first time I tried it, I was shocked! It tasted so good – I was mad at myself for never opening this book until now. It is so refreshing and it really doesn’t even taste like gin. I would be careful though because each drink does have 2 shots of gin – I limit myself to just one of these 🙂

Cucumber and Gin Summer Cocktail

Print Recipe

Course Drinks

Servings 2 drinks

Ingredients

4 shots of gin (6 oz)
1½ oz lime juice
6 slices cucumber (plus a couple more for garnish)
1 handful mint leaves
diet ginger beer

Instructions

Add the mint leaves, cucumber, and lime juice to the cocktail shaker.
Muddle the ingredients in the cocktail shaker until thoroughly crushed.
Add the gin and ice to the shaker and shake vigorously for 10 seconds
Strain mixture into pint classes containing large cubes of ice, top with ginger beer an garnish with remaining cucumber slices and mint leaves.