Name: Beverly Hills Hotel Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 52.5 ml Gin; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 22.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 4 drop Grapefruit bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 ³⁄₄ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Elderflower liqueur

³⁄₄ fl oz

Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

4 drop

Grapefruit bitters (optional)

2 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s (optional)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare rosemary sprig for garnish.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Rosemary sprig.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Beverly Hills Hotel Cocktail contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
20.11% alc./vol. (40.23° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

Gallery

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Waldmeier 23h

The best at this drink was the sprig of rosemary, it smelled delicious. It sparked memories of my mum's Sunday pork roast. So I feel kind of sorry that I only smelled at it and then had to throw it away. Otherwise the drink was OK; if you like grapefruit juice to your breakfast, but would prefer something more boozy, this may be the choice for you.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 2w

Nicely balanced

Peter Pendergest Premium Member 2w

Very refreshing for a late summer afternoon. I can alternate between this and a Brown Derby when I'm overloaded with Grapefruit.

Jake Lovell 3w

I’ve had this topped with a few oz of IPA as an “Elvis” cocktail — delicious.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Since our grapefruit are tree ripened, they tend to be a little sweeter. Reduced the Elderflower by 1/4. The resulting cocktail was outstanding. Definitely going on our cocktail rotation.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 7w

Thanks, John. I've reduced the elderflower by 1/2 and the grapefruit by 1/4 to rebalance the recipe.

Pascal Leroy Premium Member 3w

This site needs a way to find the previous recipe before the latest round of "improvements". It's not the first time that one of my favorite cocktails is tampered with, and it annoys me greatly.

I'd suggest to have a "Beverly Hills pre-2026" for people like me who are change-averse.

And with this, I am off to archive.org to find the original recipe...

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Antony Hawkins 4y

This can be improved by using Sir Robin of Locksley gin (which has elderflower in its botanicals and goes very well with a pink grapefruit garnish in a G&T).

Brings all the flavours together in a slightly smoother manner.

We call this “The Sir Robin of Beverly Hills”.

fred88 4y

Elderfower dominates too much in my opinion, and taste is really basic. Grapefuit juice and elderflower should marry well, but I would choose another recipe.

Anders Larsson 4y

Super! Used blood-graprfruit which turned out very well. Will be one of our ”house cocktails”. Proportions seem ok to us.

Arthur Howe 5y

Great bright holiday cocktail. Looks like it might trace its distant origins to the "Flower power," a "bucolic English nickname for a mixed drink from elderflower cordial and gin or vodka." (Ned Halley, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink: An A-Z of Alcoholic Beverages, 2005, p. 230). Adding grapefruit juice is genius. For variations check out Wild Blossom, Old Friend and Old Mexican Friend.

simon kitchen 6y

Gin and elderflower, what's not to like. Had to buy grapefruits for our GnT garnish during Covid lockdown, due to lack of lemons and limes, so we tried a few grapefruit based cocktails.