🌈 Some cocktails refresh. Others surprise.

Sanz Cocktails · Jun 28, 2025 Jul 01, 2025

Some cocktails refresh. Others surprise. And then there’s PRIDE, which is also celebrated. Yes, you read that right.
This isn’t just a pretty drink — it’s a liquid flag served in a highball glass.
A layered recipe that says:
“Here I am. This is me. And look how well I mix.”

If you work behind the bar, you know what it means to serve a drink that not only looks great, but tells a story.
This cocktail doesn’t care for labels… except the ones on the bottles.

🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE:

Glass: Clear highball – so the layers can shine.
Method: Layered – which means the drink is built directly in the glass.

Ingredients:

45 ml gin infused with Butterfly Pea Flower
22.5 ml Aperol
60 ml fresh pineapple juice
22.5 ml lavender syrup by Sanz Cocktails (yes, lavender — and yes, it’s amazing)
Ice and a sprig of fresh mint to garnish

❗Do not stir. Do not shake. Just build.
Like all things that matter.

Step by step: layering magic

Grab your highball glass.
Fill it to the top with ice.
Slowly pour the ingredients in this order:
- First, the Sanz lavender syrup
- Then, the Aperol
- Followed by the pineapple juice
- And lastly, the blue gin (spoiler: it’ll float like a cloud)
Don’t stir it. Let the gradient speak for itself.

How to infuse your gin like a modern-day alchemist

Blue gin? What sorcery is this?

Not sorcery — just Butterfly Pea Flower, an Asian blossom that turns your gin a vibrant blue and reacts to acids by changing colour.
Science meets aesthetics in one beautiful bottle.

Here’s how to do it:

700 ml quality gin
2 teaspoons of dried Butterfly Pea Flower
Let it infuse for 2–3 hours at room temperature
Strain and bottle it.
Boom: your blue gin is ready to wow.

🎥 Scared of layering? We get it…

→We break it down step by step on our YouTube channel: 📺 LAYERED COCKTAILS | Recipe + Tips
Yes, there’s a trick to it — and we’ve spilled it all.

❤️ Because mixing isn’t just shaking

This cocktail goes beyond taste. It’s a toast to the freedom to be, to love, to express.
A drink that celebrates the fact that every person is unique — just like every great blend.

And in cocktails, as in life, that’s liquid gold.

If you’ve got a bar, add it to your menu this Pride Month (or keep it all year, why not?).
If you’re at home, share it with someone who makes you feel like yourself.

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