Name: Cloysters
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 4 drop Grapefruit bitters; 7.5 ml Chilled water

Cloysters
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
4 drop	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters optional
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water omit if using wet ice

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

How to make:

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

Garnish:

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

There's a suitable subtle monastic influence to this complex, gin-based, most learned of cocktails.

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Variations/similar cocktails:

Cloister cocktail

History:

Believed to have originated circa 2007 in New York City. Perhaps named after the Pokémon "Cloyster", this is a gin-heavy riff on the earlier (circa 1970) Cloister cocktail.

Nutrition:

One serving of Cloysters contains 208 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
20.84% alc./vol. (41.68° proof)
24.6 grams of pure alcohol

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