Bitter Bramble

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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 2⁄3 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
5⁄6 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄2 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1⁄2 oz Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Fresh strawberry

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice. DRIZZLE bitter red liqueur over the cocktail (which will bleed through ice as it sinks).

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 6/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

Just as billed, a bitter version of the contemporary classic Bramble.

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History:

A riff on Dick Bradsell's classic Bramble created in November 2022 by Juan Jose Orellano Peñalver during a Bar Academy in the Caribbean to showcase how to make classic cocktails. Juan Jose's original recipe calls for Arbikie Kirsty's Gin and a serve over cubes or a chunk of block ice.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Bitter Bramble contains 197 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 17.05% alc./vol. (17.05° proof)
  • 17.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Chris Dimal’s Avatar Chris Dimal
29th March 2023 at 08:22
I made it with cubed ice like the original. Was extremely unremarkable with a very bitter finish.
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Brett Nelson’s Avatar Brett Nelson
18th February 2023 at 02:25
Excellent! Just the right amounts of lemon, Campari, and simple to balance it out
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Jaylin Meyer’s Avatar Jaylin Meyer
21st January 2023 at 01:44
Beautiful color, and it actually makes Campari somewhat palatable!
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