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Rosy Deacon

Name: Rosy Deacon
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Pink grapefruit juice

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur
1 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Rosy Deacon contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
18.39% alc./vol. (36.79° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

ROSE DEACON
Cocktail Glass Shake
¾ oz Gin
¾ oz sloe gin
1 oz grapefruit juice
Sugar to taste
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Review

Your choice of sloe gin will greatly influence this gin laced grapefruit sour which can tip from bone dry to slightly sweet.

Variations/similar cocktails

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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Jeremy Harrold 2y

Fruity with a perfect ’tang’ from the grapefruit. Enjoyable.

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