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Recipes · Devon Distillery
DAPPA Espresso Cocktail

We love a cocktail at Devon Distillery and we thought we would pop some of our favourite recipes using Dappa here so that you can have a go at making your own Dappa cocktails.

The Cocktails

DAPPA Espresso

Ingredients
  • 50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
  • 1 shot of strong espresso
  • 10ml vanilla & raisin syrup*
  • 1 orange zest
  • ¼ cinnamon stick
Method

Muddle the cinnamon, orange zest and syrup. Add espresso and DAPPA, then shake hard with ice. Fine strain into a martini glass.

Garnish: Coffee bean

Christmas Spirit

Ingredients
  • 50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
  • 5ml Christmas syrup*
  • 2.5ml fresh clementine juice
  • Dash of Fee Bros orange bitters
  • Dash of Fee Bros aromatic bitters
Method

Stir with crystal clear blocks of ice until the right dilution is achieved. Serve in a small 100ml corked bottle alongside a rocks glass filled with a block of ice.

Garnish: Orange zest

Citrus Twist

Ingredients
  • 50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
  • 15ml clementine juice
  • 10ml lemon juice
  • 10ml Cointreau
  • 1 egg white
  • 1 spoon sweet mincemeat
Method

Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake hard. Strain back into your shaker and dry shake a second time to break down the proteins in the egg white. Fine strain into a chilled flute.

Garnish: 3 thinly cut orange rinds

Sweet Cinnamon

Ingredients
  • 50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
  • 4 wedges of clementine
  • 4 wedges of lime
  • 15ml cinnamon honey syrup*
Method

Muddle the clementine, lime and syrup. Add crushed ice, pour over the DAPPA and stir well. Top up with more crushed ice.

Garnish: Optional cinnamon shavings

The House Syrups

Several of these recipes call for a house-made syrup. They're easy to prepare in advance and keep well in the fridge — well worth making a batch.

*Syrup

Vanilla & Raisin Syrup

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 3 tsp chopped raisins
Add sugar and water to a pan and heat until almost dissolved. Split the vanilla pod and add along with the raisins. Bring to the boil, remove from the heat and leave to cool and infuse for a further hour. Fine strain, bottle and keep refrigerated.
*Syrup

Cinnamon Honey Syrup

  • 1 bottle of honey
  • ½ cup hot water
  • 1 cinnamon stick
Combine honey and hot water in a pan, stirring to mix. Break the cinnamon stick and add to the pan. Bring to the boil, remove from the heat and leave to infuse for an hour.
*Syrup

Christmas Syrup

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • Peel of 1 orange
  • Peel of 1 clementine
  • 1 tsp chopped raisins
  • Pinch of nutmeg
Dissolve sugar in water over a pan. Add all remaining ingredients and simmer on a low heat for 10 minutes. Bring to the boil, remove from the heat and leave to infuse for an hour. Bottle and keep refrigerated.

Have fun making your Dappa cocktails — and let us know your favourite!

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