Name: Blood Sage
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 fresh Sage leaves; 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Blood orange juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

Blood Sage
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
3 fresh	Sage leaves torn
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Blood orange juice
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Vegan egg white alternative

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare sage leaf for garnish.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice).
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with sage leaf.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Sage combines wonderfully with gin and orange in this well-balanced sour.

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History:

Adapted from a drink created by Ryan Magarian, Seattle, USA.

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Angela Knox

10th March 2022 at 23:52

Used 5ml homemade sage syrup and 10ml sugar syrup - but then again. I have a sweet tooth and love sage

Joseph Murray

3rd March 2022 at 23:35

Followed the recipe exactly though I wasn’t sure about not dry shaking egg whites so ice-shook for a long 35 seconds. Came out luxuriously silky smooth, sweet-but-but-not-too-sweet. Fuchsia with pink foam, which delighted the wife. No sage flavor so maybe I need to ball the leaves before muddling next time.

Simon Difford

18th April 2023 at 05:31

You could muddle sage leaves but if you tear them, use good ice and shake vigorously, then there is no need to muddle the leaves first.

Joseph Murray

17th April 2023 at 22:30

Was there muddling involved in this before or am I misremembering? Just got a bag of blood oranges and this is number one on my list…

G. M. Genovese

2nd February 2022 at 20:43

A lot to like in this drink. Quite flavorful, if arguably a bit intense. Suggests more sweetness than it really has. The aftertaste is relatively dry. The color I got was more fuchsia than the light orange in the photo. (2 Feb 2022, 3:43p)

Patricia Baker

21st January 2024 at 01:27

I was just about to comment that my cocktail had a much pinker hue than the photo shown! I wonder if the cocktail in the photo was made without blood orange juice.

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