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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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
4 drop	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters optional
¹⁄₄ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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How to make:

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

Strength & taste guide:

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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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Variant:

Cloister cocktail

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.

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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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