This is sort of a super grown-up way to have booze for breakfast! The Cold Brew and Gin cocktail is pretty straightforward. Coffee, gin, some sort of glass, some ice, and perhaps a lemon accent.

Full disclosure – I don’t like coffee, much less cold brew, but adding gin makes it so much better. You don’t even have to make cold brew yourself! See, now this cocktail is a time saver, too.

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Cold Brew and Gin Cocktail

The Cold Brew and Gin cocktail pairs coffee and gin, with some pops of flavor.

Ingredients

1.5 Oz. Gin
1.5 Oz. Cold brew coffee
.75 Oz. Simple syrup
Lemon tonic to taste
Lemon peel as a garnish

Instructions

Add your gin, cold brew, and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake it up.
Pour your cocktail into a rocks glass.
Add lemon tonic to taste, and garnish with a lemon peel.

How to modify your caffeine and gin cocktail.

The easiest way to make this to your taste is to change how much lemon tonic you use. Full disclosure – the Fever Tree lemon tonic is POTENT and tart. A tiny bit goes a really long way!

You could skip that altogether and simply use a tonic water or soda for some bubbles. If you want that lemon flavor, consider using fresh juice.

Could you make this drink hot? I suppose if you nixed the cold brew and used hot coffee? Again – not a coffee drinker – so I have no idea how this would turn out.

If you are a fan of combining caffeine and gin, you should also try these “afternoon” gin cocktails:

The Cuba Libre with gin

The Cubata

Cheers!