Name: Shaky Pete's Ginger Brew
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 60 ml Lemon juice; 60 ml Ginger syrup; 120 ml British bitter ale

Shaky Pete's Ginger Brew
Jump to

Serve in a Rum barrel mug or pint glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
2 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 oz	Monin Ginger Syrup
4 oz	British bitter ale

Read about cocktail measures and measuring

How to make:

Blitz BLEND the first three ingredients with two ice cubes for ten seconds. Fine strain into chilled glass and TOP with beer. See Origin for Pete's original homemade ginger syrup.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

British bitter ale - Cereals containing gluten

Review:

Imagine a ginger-flavoured shandy with a kick – pretty much describes this gin-laced lemon and ginger-flavoured beer-tail.

View readers' comments

History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2012 by Pete Jeary (aka Shaky Pete) at Hawksmoor, Seven Dials, London, England. Pete's original recipe calls for homemade ginger syrup made by blending 1 kg ginger (peeled and chopped), 1 kg caster sugar and 500ml water fine strained into bottles. Pete uses London Pride beer.

Nutrition:

One serving of Shaky Pete's Ginger Brew contains 305 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
5.82% alc./vol. (5.82° proof)
16.6 grams of pure alcohol

More Modern cocktails

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Join the discussion

Showing 1 comment for Shaky Pete's Ginger Brew.
See discussion in the Forum

Please log in to make a comment

G. M. Genovese

6th July 2023 at 10:24

I used Ford's Gin, homemade ginger syrup, and the local Yards Philly Pale Ale (4.6% abv). This is addictive. Maybe a touch sweet, but quite a superb soft drink. (6 Jul 2023, 6:23a)

1

reply

See discussion in the Forum