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

Beverly Hills Hotel Cocktail
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

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	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters optional
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s optional

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare rosemary sprig for garnish.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Rosemary sprig.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Zingy grapefruit sourness balances rich elderflower in this gin-laced cocktail which you might consider enjoying with your breakfast. That's how they rock in Beverly Hills!

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Variations/similar cocktails:

Crowbar Hotel Cocktail

History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2007 by Philip Spee at The Beverly Hills Hotel, California, USA.

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

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John Hinojos

26th May 2023 at 00:42

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

3rd August at 10:00

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

Antony Hawkins

13th January 2022 at 18:42

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”.

Anonymous

9th January 2022 at 18:44

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.

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Anders Larsson

7th December 2021 at 21:29

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

Anonymous

2nd January 2021 at 03:25

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

29th June 2020 at 16:21

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.

Simon Difford

1st July 2020 at 18:59

I've cut the gin back by 10ml and realised that it's best served with my breakfast toast.

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