Name: Cloister
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 15 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Cloister
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Chartreuse and gin-laced Daisy with grapefruit and lemon juice, that (as it says in the 1971 Playboy Bar Guide, is "perfect for an autumn sundown."

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Variant:

Cloysters

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Thomas Mario's 1971 Playboy's Bar Guide.

CLOISTER
1½ ozs. gin
½ oz. grapefruit juice
¼ oz. lemon juice
¼ oz. yellow Chartreuse
Shake well with ice. Strain into prechilled cocktail glass. A competitive kind of drink, perfect for an autumn sundown.
Thomas Mario, 1971

Nutrition:

One serving of Cloister contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
21.51% alc./vol. (21.51° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Frederic D.

26th August at 00:12

A very good drink indeed, with a great balance between all ingredients. Both Chartreuse and grapefruit juice can overwhelm in a drink, but here they combine harmoniously to make something better than the sum of its parts. I found that the Gin came closer to the fore as the drink warmed up.

John Hinojos

9th October 2022 at 00:10

This was excellent. Liking our cocktails on the dry side, we left out the sugar syrup as our grapefruit is tree ripened and sweet. Wonderful for a pre-dinner cocktail with a nice cheddar, vegetables, tart apple slices, and whole grain crackers. Perfect for an autumn evening.

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