Name: Difford's Fruit Cup No.1 (gin based and Pimm's Cup-like)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Orange Curaçao; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 60 ml Ginger ale; 60 ml Cola

Ingredients

³⁄₄ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur

³⁄₄ fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)

2 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

2 fl oz

Thomas Henry Ginger Ale (chilled)

2 fl oz

Cola (chilled)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon and orange slice wheels, strawberry slices and mint sprigs (and borage flowers when in season).

Method

POUR all ingredients into glass.

Half fill glass with ice.

Add a citrus slice and a couple of mint leaves from garnish

Fill to brim with ice.

Garnish

Finish with rest of garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Difford's Fruit Cup No.1 (gin based & Pimm's Cup-like) contains 205 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
10.7% alc./vol. (21.41° proof)
17.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Gallery

Difford's Fruit Cup No.1 (gin based & Pimm's Cup-like) lifestyle image

Comments & Discussion

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Guy Daniels Premium Member 10w

Hello fellow discerning drinkers. I’m going to be prepping a batch of this to serve to half a dozen guests, saving me time and effort. But I’m thinking that I would need to hold back on the ginger ale and cola, adding them at the serve to preserve the fizz. What is best practice for this? Thanks

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 10w

Yes, mix the first 4 ingredients together and then measure 67.5ml (2.25oz) of the mix into each ice-filled glass. Then top each glass with equal parts ginger ale and cola.

Guy Daniels Premium Member 10w

Thanks Simon!

Guy Daniels Premium Member 8w

Update: The fruit cup (batch method) was a roaring success! I heartily recommend this instead of buying bottles of that other stuff…. Maybe some more batch-friendly recipes in a future email?

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David Holland 23w

Used 25ml Gordon's, 25ml Martini Rosso and in the absence of Dry Curacao split 12.5ml Orange Curacao and 12.5ml Calvados topped up with the Ginger Ale and Cola. A delightfully boozy and refined Pimm's cup.

Chris Dimal 24w

Great summer drink with a bit of a backbone. For me the best fruit cup by far. I also would suggest having a gin that is stronger than 43% to really make it alive.

Monkey Beng 47w

Perfect but I really wonder how the picture can be so clear with cola, rosso and ginger ale inside. Mine is dark...!?

Annabelle Egginton 1y

I prefer this to Pimms now

Richard Forbes Premium Member 2y

There is something unusual about this recipe, in my "You Can Make" list I can see all of the other fruit cups except this one, and of course I have gin which is the only different ingredient

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Hi Richard. If you haven't seen a reason for this issue, please email me so our IT team can look into it. simon.difford@diffordsguide.com

Avery Garnett 2y

as there doesn't seem to be a way to comment on the fruit cup article as a whole: having tried the gin (1), brandy (3), and tequila (7) cups I also wondered about what this mythical 16 could be. Having 1 serving of the mix (everything except spirit) left, I figured I would try to work out a missing option...and I tried aquavit. I don't think I'd recommend that one... :)

Avery Garnett 2y

It's nice. It tastes an awful lot like Pimms despite the ingredient list making me think "this is nothing like Pimms". I do think it needs a little less cola though, as it seems to take over a little.

Peter M Premium Member 1y

FWIW, I just tried this using Fever-Tree Distillers Cola and the cola didn't seem to take over.

Mel McGregor 2y

Lovely! I only had ginger beer which made this quite sweet, I can imagine the ginger ale would make it more dry, which would be perfect! As mentioned below, mine is much darker too.

Eva S. 3y

Tried this for the first time today and loved it! Easy to build snd easy to drink. Tried it with the celery bitters someone suggested and I will say they added something nice to this already lovely cocktail.