A Cocktail For The Weekend: Tuesday Night Dinner's Blueberry Bramble

By Amy Cavanaugh in Food on Sep 1, 2012 4:00PM

We stopped in to Tuesday Night Dinner's bar pop-up at Hearty this week, and noshed on stuffed jalapeños, spicy popcorn, and Old Bay-dusted fries. For libations, we started with the Spicy Mezcal, above, which combined grapefruit, jalapeño simple syrup, and mezcal, before moving onto the Blueberry Bramble, which stole the show.

We didn't hesitate to pull our journalism card on this one, and emailed Tuesday Night Dinner to ask for the recipe. Make it for whatever long weekend celebrations you have planned.

Blueberry Bramble
Tuesday Night Dinner’s Cocktail Collaboration between Lori Crosthwait and Jeremy Leven

Ingredients:
1 part Gin (We used Citadelle Gin, produced in France; it's technically a London style gin. However, it has a rather unique distillation process, with additional botanicals, and smaller batches prepared at one time)
1 part Fresh squeezed lemon juice
1.5 parts blueberry syrup

Jeremy’s Blueberry Simple Syrup
Ingredients:
1 lb. blueberries
2 ½ cups simple syrup
Handful of basil

Directions:
1. Bring syrup to a boil and turn off heat.
2. Pour syrup over blueberries and whole basil (leaves and stems).
3. Let steep for 25 mins. Remove basil. And let cool.

Directions:
1. Add ice, gin, and lemon juice to shaker tin. Shake until chilled.
2. In a tall collins glass, pour the blueberry syrup first.
3. Add ice to fill the glass.
4. Slowly pour the strained gin and lemon juice into the glass. It's worth noting that the slow pour keeps the blueberry and gin/lemon from mixing right away, which looks pretty and gives you a chance to taste them somewhat separately. Best enjoyed with a straw for that effect. Then you can stir it together and it's like a grownup blueberry lemonade.