Game of Thrones is back (finally!) and we’re ever so excited here at 186 Portobello Road. Us ‘Gin Maesters’ (sorry) have spent The Winter creating a range of Game of Thrones-inspired drinks that even Robert Baratheon would be proud of and will have you drinking like a Khaleesi at your home-viewing party.
Each cocktail is prepared with ingredients straight from a Tyrell’s potions cabinet and served in vessels fit for the true Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, whoever they might be.
Valar Morgulis
Ingredients:
50mls Portobello Road Gin
3 dashes of absinthe
20mls lemon juice
100mls tonic water
sprig of rosemary, sprig of lavender
Method: Shake all the ingredients except the tonic and double strain into a drinking horn packed with crushed ice. Top with the tonic water. How to serve? Dripping with blood on a bed of broken flowers, of course.
Winter is Coming
Ingredients:
50mls Portobello Road Gin
5mls limoncello
25mls Grand Marnier
Juniper berries, cassia bark & nutmeg
Method: Set alight, toss from flaming cup to flaming cup and then fling into a large warmed brandy balloon and serve with a flame bright enough to keep a White Walker at bay.
Kissed By Fire
Ingredients:
50 mls Portobello Road Gin
200mls tomato juice
one bottle of dark ale
the contents of one whole egg
pinch of cayenne pepper
A Generous slug of Tabasco Sauce
Method: Pour the mixture from one cup to the next with a little crushed ice and then strain the whole thing into a blown dragon egg and serve on a bed of fire.
The Lion & The Rose
Ingredients:
35mls Portobello Road Gin
25mls Abor Gold wine (any Sauternes will suffice)
1 spoon Rose’s lime marmalade
1 individual drop of rose water
20mls egg white
Method: Shake & strain into a Dragon goblet and garnish with a rose.
Mother’s Mercy
Ingredients:
25mls Portobello Road Gin
17.5mls crème de cacao blanc
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
25mls full fat milk
12.5mls Cocchi Americano
Method: Blend the whole lot with a little ice and then pour into a pomegranate-molasses ‘blood stained’ milk bottle.