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Lotus Cocktail

Name: Lotus Cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 7 fresh Mint leaves; 60 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 30 ml Lychee juice drink; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
7 fresh	Mint leaves
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
1 fl oz	Lychee juice drink
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

Garnish: Mint leaf

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Martini glass

Method:

Lightly MUDDLE mint (just to bruise) in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

20.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2001 by Martin Walander at Match Bar in London, England.

Review

This violet coloured drink may have an unlikely list of ingredients but tastes better than they might suggest.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.72 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Bols Blue Curaçao 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$14.99 $0.15 per cocktail Bols Blue Curaçao image

Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$14.99 $0.15 per cocktail Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) image

$3.02 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Angela Knox 3y

Its a good cocktail, but I would prefer a more forward lychee taste; I may try adding some kwa fei

Alejandro Chaves 5y

Still sweet, swweeeeeetttt. Everyone liked it though.

Matthew Clisby 6y

Flavour is nice and looked attractive but way too syrupy for me

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Agreed. The recipe should have said lychee juice rather than lychee syrup. Thanks to your comment, now corrected.

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