Cocktail recipes for June

From a chilli twist on a honey-based cocktail to a Cherry Old Fashioned, we’ve rounded up the serves to make at home this month.

June will have us sipping on our home-crafted serves in the garden after a long day's work – just try to resist the refreshing concoctions below.

Scroll down to discover 10 serves you can create this June, and see here for May's round up.

Do you have a cocktail recipe you’d like featured in next month's round up? Email [email protected].

Mataroa's unique gin is mixed with bitters and fruit for this summery concoction.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Dry shake all ingredients. Add ice, shake for eight seconds and double strain. Top with the grated mastic. Garnish with basil leaf and a dehydrated strawberry.

This World Ocean Day (8 June), raise a glass to protect sea turtles with this cocktail created in partnership with Lost Years Rum. Bar chain Drake & Morgan has pledged to save one baby sea turtle hatchling for every cocktail sold.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake and double strain into a rocks glass with ice.

A long, zesty cocktail with light ginger warmth and tart raspberry flavour.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Add lime juice, raspberry, ginger syrup and bitters to the glass, and fill with cubed ice. Add a splash of sparkling water and stir well. Top with more Harrogate Spa Sparkling Water. Garnish with mint sprigs and lime wedge.

Spice up your happy hour with this shot of fire.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Measure and pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice. Shake vigorously. Salt rim half a shot glass with Tajín spice mix and strain liquid into the glass.

Complex, fruity and elegantly refined.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Add ingredients to your mixing glass, stir with a spoon, strain, and pour into a glass over ice.

*Make your own chamomile syrup by letting chamomile flowers rest in cold simple syrup for 24 hours.

The best way to make your Old Fashioned pop.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Add your ingredients into a mixing glass, add ice, and stir. Pour over ice cube into an Old Fashioned tumbler, and garnish with an orange twist and a cherry.

A classic G&T that is guaranteed to turn heads.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Build over lots of ice, and garnish with a slice of orange and a cinnamon stick.

Ginato Gin has created a refreshing cocktail with Prosecco suited to any occasion.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Combine all ingredients over ice in a large wine glass

Mix Grand Kadoo's Pineapple rum with Campari for a delicious on-the-beach serve.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Add all ingredients to an ice-filled highball glass, stir to integrate all ingredients and serve.

Penrhos Spirits is celebrating World Bee Day (20 May) for the third year running, with a delicious hot honey twist on a gin cocktail favourite, the Chilli Bee's Knees.

INGREDIENTS

METHOD

Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake very well with ice. Strain into a coupe glass for a deliciously honey-infused cocktail.

*(50:50 mix of honey and hot water, dissolve and let cool add 1 tsp of chilli flakes to taste)