Name: Colony
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Maraschino liqueur; 22.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 4 drop Grapefruit bitters

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

³⁄₄ fl oz

Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₁₂ fl oz

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

4 drop

Grapefruit bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Colony contains 153 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
20.19% alc./vol. (40.39° proof)
18.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created during the Prohibition period at New York's Colony speakeasy, possibly by bartender Marco Hattem. The Colony attracted an upmarket clientele, including the Vanderbilts and Windsors. The liquor was kept in an elevator which would be sent to either the attic or the basement if federal agents raided.

Comments & Discussion

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Florian Ruf Premium Member 1y

I know, it has nothing to do with it, but it remembers a little kind of dirty Martini. Very good, although I am no outspoken friend of Marschino.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

This is outstanding. Going in my favourites. You must like the flavour of grapefruit for this cocktail. You must have the grapefruit bitters. We use locally grown grapefruit which are very sweet and flavourful. While the glass in the picture is hard to find, did find one which is similar with a round bottom and bubbles in the base of glass from Crate and Barrel here in the U.S.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Hi John. The glass pictured is an old glass from Urban Bar which I don't tink they've made for some years now.

Sally Morgan Premium Member 4y

I think you can often mix and match bitters in cocktails but good grapefruit bitters really make this one

Jonathan Schwartz 4y

good, but very floral. halved the simple syrup. still sweet.

Debbie Lahaise 5y

This is very very dry - I added more grapefruit juice and maraschino liquer - for my taste much better - but made from the book not online (no sugar syrup in book recipe )

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Unless your citrus is very ripe, this cocktail is better with a splash of sugar. I'm continually retrying and updating recipes and this cocktail in our soon-to-be-released Sixteenth Edition has sugar syrup as per the recipe above.

Widmann Alcântara 5y

Well, I have just tried this drink and I know for sure that the syrup definitely isn't necessary. I liked it very much (without syrup). But I think I'll try the version sugested in previous post by Steve with orange bitters. Sorry, but I'm from Brazil and my english is not very good.

Steve Anderson 5y

Too sweet for my taste. My alternative:
60 ml gin
20 ml Maraschino liqueur
40 ml grapefruit juice
2 dashes bitters. I didn't have grapefruit bitters, so I used orange bitters.
Great for a summer day! I'm still looking for that mix that makes it really good instead of just easy to drink.