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Eye Candy

Name: Eye Candy
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Fresh ginger; 12 fresh Mint leaves; 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 30 ml Soda water

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Ingredients
3 slice	Fresh ginger root (thumbnail-sized slice)
12 fresh	Mint leaves
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

Garnish: Mint sprigs bouquet

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Method:

MUDDLE ginger in base of shaker. Add next 5 ingredients, shake with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with a splash soda and briefly stir.

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:

17 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created at Touché Lounge and Restaurant in Miami, USA.

Review

Given the name, the pressure's on for how this (perhaps not appropriately named) cocktail is presented. Beyond the name, this gin-laced ginger-spice forward cocktail has a citrusy elderflower supporting act.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

St Germain Elderflower Liqueur 200ml - makes 13 cocktails
$14.99 $1.15 per cocktail

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$14.99 $0.20 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

$3.41 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 13 cocktails.
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Chris Dimal 2y

Messed up with not enough simple syrup, so I tried putting my crystallised jar over some warm water to attempt to melt the sugar. Failed, so I just put a few scraps in and hoped for the best. Did not turn out to well, tasting more candy-like, with the sugar dominating all the other components (except the mint). Still pleasant, but I would love to return to this drink with a fresh batch of proper simple syrup.

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