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Cloysters

Cloysters

3.8 12 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Gin
1/2 oz Chartreuse Yellow
1/2 oz Pink grapefruit juice
1/4 oz Lemon juice
1/6 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
4 drop Grapefruit bitters
1/4 oz Chilled water

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

20.8% alc./vol. · 1.8 standard drinks · 208 calories

History

A complex, gin-based cocktail with a subtle monastic influence.

This drink likely originated around 2007 in New York City. It may be named after the Pokémon character "Cloyster", and it is a gin-forward variation of the Cloister cocktail, which dates to approximately 1970.