Cloysters

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (11 ratings)

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
12 oz Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
12 oz Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
14 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
16 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
4 drop Bob's Grapefruit Bitters optional
14 oz Chilled water omit if using wet ice
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10

Review:

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

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2007 by John Deragon at PDT bar in New York City, USA. 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:

  • 1.6 standard drinks
  • 20.84% alc./vol. (20.84° proof)
  • 22.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Egg McKenzie’s Avatar Egg McKenzie
28th January 2024 at 19:53
you're all haters this is top notch
2nd February 2023 at 22:40
I had to sub cranberry juice for GF, and a sugar cube for the syrup. Still delightfully complex
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Anonymous

15th June 2020 at 22:17
Add 1 dash grapefruit bitters
Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
17th June 2020 at 20:00
Agreed. I've added a dash of bitters to the recipe above as you suggest.