If you were lucky enough to get Craft Gin Club’s February 2023 Gin of the Month box and try Mulberry Creek Tonic in our stunning Perfect G&T (find the recipe here!) then your next port of call needs to be this gin-credible Honey Lemon Highball.

A beautiful mix of gin, honey and Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon, it’s a mouthwatering lemon cocktail that’s easy to make at home and ideal for enjoying through spring and summer - it’s just as delicious at any other time of the year too!

The rich juniper-forward base of the gin works so well with Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon’s gorgeous blend of bitter citrus flavours, all of which are augmented by a soft sweetness and gentle tangy fizz. The sweet, fragrant honey then rounds everything off wonderfully.

Finished with slices of fresh lemon and a sprig of mint, it’s simply divine. Give it a go…

Honey Lemon Highball

50ml gin
2 tsp honey
20ml lime juice
75ml Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon
Mint and fresh lemon, to garnish

Add your gin, honey and lime juice to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a highball glass over ice and top with Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon. Garnish and enjoy.

What makes Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon so special?

For us here at Craft Gin Club HQ, that answer has to be the remarkable quality and flavour of not only Mulberry Creek Tonic, its sugar-free edition and their Bitter Lemon but also their brand-new Ginger Ale, which works fantastic with craft gin too in cocktails like our Floradora.

We put the same question and more to Mulberry Creek’s Lee Fretwell in July 2021 (when we included Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon in Craft Gin Club’s July 2021 Gin of the Month box) to find out more about these special mixers.

Here’s what he had to say:

Q: What makes Mulberry Creek mixers perfect for summer celebrations?

A: The delicate balance of natural flavours across our range, from luscious lemon to sophisticated quinine bitterness, instantly delights – they bring a sense of effervescent cheer to long-awaited celebrations with friends and family.

Q: What makes Mulberry Creek special?

A: Mulberry Creek was born out of a desire to offer premium mixers that have genuine environmental credentials, at an affordable price. We set out to lovingly craft mixers from the absolute best ingredients, and present them in a package that doesn’t ‘cost the earth’.

Q: How do you go about making your range environmentally friendly?

A: Being situated in the heart of England and using local suppliers wherever possible means that we’re able to source the highest-quality ingredients while minimising our environmental impact from the distribution chain. We also use aluminium cans, which use 90% less energy to recycle than glass bottles do – and can be recycled infinitely.

The only question left is which gins go with which Mulberry Creek mixer?

The experts at Craft Gin Club have been experimenting with Mulberry Creek's delicious range and have come up with the perfect simple serve suggestions for each one.

Mulberry Creek Ginger Ale

Mulberry Creek Ginger Ale is a great companion to punchy spiced gins. When you combine the two, you get a mixed drink with gently warming flavours, perfect for chilly winter nights. It also complements darker spirits and ones aged in wood, like dark rums or barrel-aged gins. Ginger combined with notes of oak, cinnamon and caramel? Yes, please!

Here is our perfect gin and Mulberry Creek Ginger Ale serving suggestion:

50ml spiced gin
200ml Mulberry Creek Ginger Ale
Lime, to garnish

Add the gin and Mulberry Creek Ginger Ale to a glass with lots of ice. Stir, garnish and enjoy!

Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon

Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon, crafted with quinine, is robust enough in terms of taste to stand up to flavoured gins. Thanks to its sophisticated bittersweet notes, it also works exceptionally well with Campari or Aperol as a low-ABV pre-dinner aperitif.

Here is our perfect gin and Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon serving suggestion:

50ml orange gin
200ml Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon
Orange, to garnish

Add the gin and Mulberry Creek Bitter Lemon to a glass with lots of ice. Stir, garnish and enjoy!

Mulberry Creek Sugar Free Tonic

Prefer a tipple with a dryer flavour? Mulberry Creek Sugar Free Tonic is just the thing for you – this variation on their flagship recipe takes sugar out of the equation, leaving you with a sophisticated, subtly bitter mixer. It’s just the thing to enjoy with a traditional London dry gin – the straightforward notes of juniper and quinine form a classic pairing. This sugar-free tonic also works well with alcohol-free gin alternatives, which many top distillers are now creating – together they form the ultimate midweek mocktail.

Here is our perfect gin and Mulberry Creek Sugar Free Tonic serving suggestion:

50ml London dry gin or alcohol-free gin
200ml Mulberry Creek Sugar Free Tonic
Fresh citrus slices, to garnish

Add the gin and Mulberry Creek Sugar Free Tonic to a glass with lots of ice. Stir, garnish and enjoy!

Mulberry Creek Tonic

Mulberry Creek Tonic is remarkable because it’s so versatile. The subtle hint of bitterness from quinine, balanced with full-bodied, elegant citrus notes, brings out the best in every gin, as well as other light spirits like vodka. We found this tonic works especially well with American-style gins with botanical-forward profiles, and that’s precisely why we paired it with the Modern Love Gin in Craft Gin Club’s February 2023 Gin of the Month box.

You can find our perfect gin and Mulberry Creek Tonic serving suggestion right here!