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Ocean Shore

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (33)
Ocean Shore image
Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
1 fl oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur
1⁄2 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄4 fl oz Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup
6 drop Vanilla bitters (optional)
1⁄2 fl oz Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

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How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Prepare

  1. Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

  1. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. STRAIN back into shaker.
  3. DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
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Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Ocean Shore contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.1 standard drinks
  • 15.2% alc./vol. (30.41° proof)
  • 15.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

  • Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) — Nuts
  • Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

The Ocean Shore cocktail first appears in the "Some new up-to-now seductive American cocktails" annexe of William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's 1908 book The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them with a choice of "one-third raspberry or Orgeat syrup".

OCEAN SHORE COCKTAIL.
One-half Sloe gin, one-third Coates Plymouth gin, one-third raspberry or Orgeat syrup, juice of lime or lemon to overcome the sweetness of the syrup, and the white of half an egg. Shake well with cracked ice, and serve in small claret glass.

William Boothby, The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, 1908


By the time the cocktail makes it into the main section of Boothby's 1934 edition , only orgeat syrup appears and this repeated in Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco's 1937 The How and When.

OCEAN SHORE
Sloe Gin...... ½ jigger
Orgeat......... 1 spoon
Gin.............. ⅓ jigger
Lemon......... 5 drops
Egg.............. ½ of white
Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass and serve.

William Boothby, The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them, 1934


Ocean Shore Cocktail
1 pony Sloe Gin
⅓ jigger Dry Gin
1 spoon Orgeat
5 drops Lemon Juice
½ White of 1 Egg
Shake well
Strain into Cocktail glass

Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco, The How and When, 1937

Review

A sloe gin sour with a touch of almond. If you opt not to follow my addition of vanilla bitters, then consider dropping the orgeat to 5ml (1 bar spoon).

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Comments & Discussion

Calvin Grant Premium Member
Love Sloe gin, loved this. First time using Giffard Orgeat, definitely a step up from BG Reynolds imo (I can taste the almond). Went with the full amount and a lemon/lime split. Sadly no Bob's Vanilla Bitters, after tasting added a few drops of Amargo Chuncho Bitters to the eggwhite foam and swirled it in. Fabulous! ♡♡♡♡♡
score: 1
Paul Holdsworth Premium Member
Ooh, this is a great Xmas drink - all berries and marzipan flavours. I've just decanted off this year's sloe gin especially to make it (we had an incredible crop of blackthorn fruit in Cumbria, UK, this year).
score: 2
James Pratt Premium Member
This appears earlier than the 1934 edition. The 1908 ‘Latest Edition’ version (there are two 1908 editions on EUVS) has a section after the end of the previous edition named ‘Some new-up-to-now seductive American cocktails’; the Ocean Shore Cocktail appears there. That recipe has raspberry syrup as an alternative sweetener to orgeat.
score: 1
Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member
Many thanks, James. I've referenced above and added the 1908 recipe.
score: 1
Lynn Garvie
I didn't have the vanilla bitters, but I kept the orgeat at 7.5ml and really enjoyed this one. It's a great sour. (Ocean Shore)
score: 2

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