Cucumber-Aloe Cocktail

Ingredients

• 0.3 cup aloe juice 
• 2 teaspoons chartreuse liqueur 
• 0.3 cup hendrick's gin 
• 12 small shiso leaves fresh
• 6 tablespoons tonic water 

Equipment

• wooden spoon

Directions

1. Using a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon, crush and mash cucumber and shiso in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add gin and mash again. Fill shaker halfway with ice cubes.
3. Add tonic, aloe, and Chartreuse. Stir to blend well. Fill 2 Old Fashioned glasses with ice; strain cocktail into glasses.
4. Bon Appétit