Name: Showbiz
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 20 ml Crème de cassis; 45 ml Pink grapefruit juice

Showbiz
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
²⁄₃ oz	Joseph Cartron Double Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered blackberries.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered blackberries.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Sweet cassis soured with grapefruit and fortified with vodka.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Showbiz contains 174 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
14.57% alc./vol. (14.57° proof)
16 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

21st March at 01:03

With the remaining cocktail, we added a few small ice cubes. The cocktail does work great a bit bit more water.

John Hinojos

21st March at 00:42

Liked this, but found it a tad on the sweet side for our taste. We put in a few drops of grapefruit bitters and still on the sweet side. Sort of a cassis version of the Cosmopolitan.
Our grapefruits are picked ripe from the tree and tend to run sweet. Would consider using white grapefruit which is a bit more sour. I would rate this more of a "6" than "7" for sweetness.
Would be a great cocktail for a brunch or a warm afternoon.

Simon Difford

21st March at 06:41

Thanks, John. I've dropped sweetness back to 6.

Jeremy Harrold

15th February 2022 at 17:41

Looking at the comments, I modified it to 60 Vodka, 50 Pink Grapefruit, 20 Cassis. It was a refreshing bitter sweet cocktail. A nice balance of the ‘tang’ of the grapefruit with the fruity cassis.

Brandon John

12th February 2022 at 07:18

It's fine, but not sure I'd go out of my way to make one. If I've squeezed a fresh grapefruit, I probably want a drink that keeps things very grapefruit-forward, whereas here the cassis just detracts from it a bit I think.

Sherri Rita

16th September 2021 at 02:23

Perfectly delicious with white grapefruit. Surprisingly mellow and not sweet despite the amount of crime de cassis. Wonderfully balanced.

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