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Bitter Bramble

Bittersweet (e.g. Negroni) · Summer

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Ingredients

1 2/3 oz Gin
5/6 oz Lemon juice
1/2 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
1/2 oz Red bitter liqueur

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

  1. 1 SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice
  2. 2 DRIZZLE bitter red liqueur over the cocktail (which will bleed through ice as it sinks).

Flavour profile

17.1% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 197 calories

History

A bitter version of the contemporary Bramble cocktail.

This drink, created in November 2022 by Juan Jose Orellano Peñalver during a Bar Academy in the Caribbean, is a variation on Dick Bradsell's Bramble. It demonstrates how to make classic cocktails. Juan Jose's initial recipe specifies Arbikie Kirsty's Gin and serving over cubes or a block of ice.

Created by Juan Jose Orellano Peñalver