Name: Opal
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 15 ml Triple sec; 37.5 ml Orange juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1.25 ml Orange flower water

Ingredients

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz

Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

¹⁄₂₄ fl oz

Fee Brothers Orange Flower Water

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Opal contains 188 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
17.58% alc./vol. (35.16° proof)
21 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Peter M Premium Member 2y

Gin + orange + a light perfume-y floral note. A little sweet, but not too much, imo. Well-balanced, but might need to adjust sugar when using fresh oranges, depending on your oranges. @Simon, this seems like one that could be added to the Breakfast/Brunch category?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Thanks, Peter. I've added it to the breakfast/brunch category.

ian roberts 2y

This one is really nice and refreshing, took the sugar out as originally a little sweet for my taste

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Perfect afternoon cocktail. Orange Flower Water adds a nice hint of floral, but not overpowering Used organic, tree ripened oranges as it makes a huge difference in the sweetness of the cocktail. Did dial back the sugar syrup by half to compensate for the orange juice.

Chris Dimal 3y

Made it more carefully with better oranges, now I get the point of this drink. Botanical and hard (alcoholic) orange juice with a beautiful, floral finish. Definitely deserving the 4.5 rating.

Chris Dimal 3y

Hmm, it's extremely orangey, and not in such a good way. Super floral. I tried my best to measure my orange blossom water to 1.25ml, maybe it still went too far.

Michael Mayday 4y

Supremely sweet in taste and appreciation. Added about 4-5 drops of orange blossom water as a rough guesstimate of what 1/24th of an oz is.

As G.M. Genovese notes, strong creamsicle taste to it. Would recommend you stick with Beefeater or a similar gin so you don't overwhelm flavors. Very good drink overall and will be making it again.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 4y

Interesting drink. Orange creamsicle tones with the herbal backbite of gin. Well-balanced overall, but I'd try it again dialing back the orange blossom water (1.25 ml = 16 drops for me) to a dash (8 drops). But that's just my taste. I feel like this recipe as is would be appealing to folks who are wary of gin and/or obsessed with orangey flavors. (8 Jun 2022, 1:21p)