Blackberry Tom Collins cocktail
This blackberry Tom Collins recipe was one of our first recipe posts back in 2008. It’s fun to see how our photography and garden has changed over the years! This drink is basically a blackberry version of the classic Tom Collins cocktail, similar to a blackberry bramble. 
Blackberry Tom Collins Cocktail
This Blackberry Tom Collins recipe post is dedicated to Miss Kaweah, the sweet and lucky black lab that gets to hike, romp and swim in Colorado’s outrageously amazing wilderness. She’s at a summer puppy camp now, enjoying a little break away from her parents. Jen Yu and Jeremy of Use Real Butter. Everyone knows that Jen’s super duper fine photography skills keep us drooling over her delicious Asian dishes and picture perfect sweet desserts.
So when they decided to take some time out during their California trip to stop by our place, it was time to finally meet them face to face, to let them know EXACTLY what we thought of them after some good eats and intoxicating cocktails. We all just squealed out our greetings, hugged and held back a little tears (well, Diane did).Jen & Jeremy are the real deal: they’re smart, fun, funny, totally down to earth, sincere , loving and one of the best couples we’ve met.
We ate so much food during this visit ! For the beverages we made lots of Vietnamese iced coffee and an awesome cocktail which is basically a Blackberry version of a Tom Collins. The blackberries have been fantastic lately in one of our favorite markets, so this has been a regular beverage right now. Thanks to Modern Beet for getting us started on these blackberry cocktails.
Cheers!
-Todd and Diane
Start with blackberries
Lime juice & sugar
muddle, muddle, muddle
add ice, gin, and soda water
stir & garnish
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Blackberry Tom Collins Cocktail
Ingredients
- 3 large Blackberries
- 1/2 ounce (15ml) fresh Lime Juice
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) Sugar or 1/2 oz. simple syrup, or to taste
- 2 ounces (60ml) Gin
- 3-4 ounces (90-120ml) Club Soda
Instructions
- Put blackberries in a highball glass, add lime juice, and sugar (or simple syrup) and muddle (you know, smash it all together with a pestle or something similar).
- Add ice, then pour in gin and club soda. Stir, garnish with a couple cut blackberries if you’d like, and enjoy.
I realize I am about a year behind the 8 ball, but I am drinking this right now and really enjoying it! I made it with Hendrick’s gin (yum…..) and it;s quite the tasty summertime treat. My one tweak is that I added about a few more squeezes of lime juice (~1/4 more of a lime) than recommended, which I would recommend to others trying it out for the first time (but maybe taste the original first…).
Ahhhh—no fair! I only got one hour of them and you got five! You’re right though: They are an absolutely treasure. I’m glad you treated them right! There should be more of them in the world. 🙂
Love your last picture of figs. We have two trees of them that will require quite a bit more heat until the fruit is ripe, but we’re just starting to get some good, reasonably priced ones in our market. The other day I got some light green and yellow striped ones called a Candystripe. Not as tasty as our favorit Black Mission but absolutely lovely.