Name: Between The Sheets No.1 (gin + rum + triple sec)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Light white rum; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Between The Sheets No.1 (gin + rum + triple sec)
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Nick & Nora 1910 17cl

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
³⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora 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.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Light rum and gin freshened and invigorated with citrus. This is the bright, youthful warm-up act of the Between the Sheets trilogy.

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Variant:

The modern-day Between The Sheets is light rum and cognac-based, but three versions span this cocktail's history:
No. 1 - dry gin + light white rum + triple sec + lemon juice
No. 2 - brandy + dry gin + triple sec + lemon juice
No. 3 - brandy + light white rum + triple sec + lemon juice

History:

The first known recipe for Between The Sheets cocktail appeared in Frank Shay's 1929 Drawn From Wood and this calls for equal parts gin, rum and triple sec. (Whereas the Between the Sheets No. 3, the version that has become the modern-day standard is with brandy in place of gin.)

BETWEEN THE SHEETS
(Make one for the lady too)
One part Gin
One part Bacardi
One part Cointreau
Ice, shake and strain
Frank Shay, 1929

Nutrition:

One serving of Between The Sheets No.1 (gin + rum + triple sec) contains 166 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.05% alc./vol. (25.05° proof)
20.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Ian Fenton

24th June 2024 at 12:05

Made with Luxardo Triplum, was mediocre. Maybe better with Cointreau, but there’s a thousand other similar sours out there to try so I’ll probably never get around to it.

David Parnell

6th January 2024 at 19:10

Loved it, but can't see the benefit of the salt. Is it me?

Florian Ruf

10th December 2023 at 18:59

Check it before shaking. Half of us liked the version without syrup.

Calvin Grant

29th October 2023 at 02:57

Combier, Bacardi Carta Blanca, and Tanqueray Export strength sing superb together! And I might reduce the rich syrup by half next time as John's onto something here. Five stars and a heart.

John Hinojos

18th September 2023 at 00:35

Very good cocktail. Found the ingredients worked well together. Did find it a bit sweet for our tastes, so next time we will omit the sugar syrup. Increasing the lemon juice would ruin the balance of the other flavours.

John Hinojos

26th September 2023 at 23:43

rich simple. If I remembered correctly, we even shorted that amount. Felt the Cointreau would be sweet enough. We tend to like our cocktails more on the sour/dry side, and usually adjust the sugar syrup down.

Jon Rodgers

26th September 2023 at 18:52

Did you use the Rich simple or regular simple?

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