Name: Minty Mellow Yellow
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 fresh Mint leaves; 30 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 10 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Honey and water syrup

Minty Mellow Yellow
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Glass:

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
2 fresh	Mint leaves
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of float small mint leaf or peg to rim.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice).
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Inspired and originally created using Monkey 47 Experimentum 2y06 Gin. Honey and mint notes in the gin are amplified in this bijou sour with monastic herbal liqueur complexity.

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History:

Created in March 2022 by yours truly at the Clocktower in Rye, England.

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Alcohol content:

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

12.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Calvin Grant

4th May at 05:03

Fabulous. I used Tanqueray and leaned in on the honey and mint. Plus that newfound elusive bottle of Chartreuse. Shout out to Donovan!

G. M. Genovese

18th July 2025 at 01:27

I made this with St. George Valley Gin and Strega. The mint in my garden had medium-small leaves, so I used 7 not 2. Still not enough mint flavor. I did very much enjoy the drink, but a fruity gin is NOT the way to go. I will revisit this.

Florian Ruf

15th May 2025 at 15:04

I tried to rebuild this cocktail, sorrily without the special Monkey gin. A mint and lemon zest decoration and the use of pure honey made a really good and not to sweet cocktail.

Carol Chessis

1st February 2023 at 10:27

Can I sub yellow chartreuse for Strega?

Simon Difford

2nd February 2023 at 11:36

Just tried and quite different and also a tad sweeter with Strega - I'd cut the sugar back a tad. Also quite different when made with regular Monkey 74 verses Experiementum 2y06.

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