Name: Clover Club (Difford's recipe)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 fresh Raspberries; 50 ml Gin; 15 ml Bianco/blanco vermouth; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised)

Ingredients

5 fresh

Raspberries

1 2/3 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/2 fl oz

Strucchi Bianco Vermouth

1/2 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/3 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

1/2 fl oz

Egg white (pasteurised) or Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and raspberry.

Method

MUDDLE raspberries in base of shaker.

Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and strain back into shaker.

DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.

Garnish with raspberry floated in centre of cocktail.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

18.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Bianco/blanc/blanco vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

Review

It's a bit of a faff to make, but it's worth the clogged sink drain from the raspberry shrapnel. Using raspberry syrup and especially raspberry jam in a Clover Club introduces cooked "jammy" notes, while this can be delicious (see Julie Reiner's Clover Club), I like to retain and hero fresh berry flavours.

Gallery

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Comments & Discussion

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Carolina Star 1 week ago

This drink has everything that I want from a cocktail. It’s a sour. It has fresh raspberries. Bianco. Gin. Lemon.

Perfectly balanced and looks very impressive with a deep red colour and egg foam. I can’t wait to serve this at my next dinner party.

Be careful when using fresh raspberries though, while it tasted great, there were some bits in the cocktail so I’ll be more careful when straining it next time.

OodelallyGolly Appreciated Commenter 4 months ago

I used seven raspberries and swapped out the Bianco Vermouth for Lillet Blanc.

Tasted better than when I used Dry Vermouth as a substitute.

It’s sweeter, bolder and well worth dealing with the raspberry mash.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

Maybe our Swedish raspberries were too small, underripe or something but my cocktail looked more like a gin sour than it did a Clover Club, and that was with 6 raspberries. Next time I'll make this with 2-3x the raspberries for the flavour and the colour.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

We tried this with Blanco Tequila instead of the Gin. Warmer, brooding but more subdued. There's a reason the original is a classic...a sprightly, carefree and sunny cocktail.

Cassandra Adams Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 8 months ago

Great suggestion, we enjoyed this alternative.

Louis Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

Excellent with Monkey 47. I go with 7 or 8 raspberries.

John CARR Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

Strange that this gets 4.5 stars, while the Julie Reiner jam version gets 5+. For me the fresh fruit version is a clear winter.

Andre Derailleur Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

This is another sour with egg white that can be made as a blender drink. Just fine strain and you have a great drink without any “pfaffing” about.

Rory Heffron 2 years ago

Made this now with raspberries, blackberries and passionfruit. All excellent. I Found Roku gin to work well.

Nicola Adams Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

It’s a little on the painful side to make, but that burst of creamy, super fresh raspberry definitely makes this version of the Clover Club the one that killed the rest

Nicola Adams Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

… tho depending on your raspberries you might need to add a few more than 5 to get that punch of raspberry flavour. Sometimes the raspberries you buy can look a lot more amazing than they taste, and in this case up to ten is better - sieving this many definitely makes it more annoying to make but it’s still worth it!