Name: Wibble
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 10 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Blackberry liqueur; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Wibble
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
1 oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Giffard Crème de Mûre liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

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Review:

As Dick Bradsell once said to me, "It may make you wobble, but it won't make you fall down." Dick named this cocktail after the 1970s' Weebles children's roly-poly toys which were advertised with the catchphrase, "Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down."

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History:

Created in 1999 by Dick Bradsell at The Player, London, England for Nick Blacknell - a conspicuous lover of gin.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Wibble contains 192 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
13.92% alc./vol. (13.92° proof)
16 grams of pure alcohol

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Caspian Berggren

6th March at 18:42

A crowd pleasing cocktail that tastes like candy, with the grapefruit drying up on the finish. Lovely but not super complex.

Michael Click

6th February at 15:52

This tastes like a sweet and sour berry and citrus candy. Delicious!

Sally Morgan

9th June 2024 at 19:52

Really showcases a good homemade sloe gin well. Adjust the sugar syrup accordingly.

John CARR

25th May 2024 at 11:55

Very pleasant and fruity. Probably on the sweet side for me (no slider gizmo on this recipe page?). Also went with Florian’s suggestion of raspberry syrup, plus a dash of a Finnish blueberry/raspberry liqueur that was lurking in the cupboard.
Might try Sean’s bloody Shiraz version next time!

Sean Baron

29th February 2024 at 22:45

Used Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz gin for this, and it blends in perfectly. Gives it a really full bodied kick.

Felicia Stratton

15th July 2022 at 00:41

I love it - the WEEBLES commercial!!! In the US most people have no clue about Weebles, only those of us of a certain (ahem…) age. Thank you for this! On to the drink, first time I’ve had sloe gin (Hayman’s), I like it!. I used raspberry syrup as suggested. I’ll certainly make it again.

Florian Ruf

29th September 2021 at 13:47

Also tasty with raspberry syrup as replacement of Creme de Mure.

Ian T

29th December 2023 at 19:59

No crème de mure so used Chambord instead which worked well.

G. M. Genovese

9th May 2021 at 18:57

Immediately, not my ideal brands of choice (used what was on hand), but the result was quite tasty enough to warrant revisiting... Gordon's, Hofland Sloe Gin, and Mathilde Cassis were the subs... I continue to be impressed by Dick's cocktails.

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