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King's Cross Cosmo

Name: King's Cross Cosmo
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Gin; 15 ml Pink grapefruit syrup; 7.5 ml Triple sec; 30 ml Cranberry juice; 15 ml Lime juice; 2.5 ml Honey and water syrup; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (3)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Pink grapefruit (pamplemousse rose) syrup
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
1 fl oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or pinch of salt

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Calabrese ZigZag Coupe 23cl

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 King's Cross Cosmo contains 168 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
12.61% alc./vol. (25.23° proof)
14.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in May 2024 by yours truly to showcase Monin Pink Grapefruit syrup.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

A gin-based, grapefruit-influenced Cosmopolitan.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 20 cocktails
$33.99 $1.70 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Cointreau L'Unique 375ml - makes 50 cocktails
$21.99 $0.44 per cocktail Cointreau L'Unique image

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Makes a minimum of 20 cocktails.
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Charlotte Carlson Waitner 2y

Some Cosmos can be cloying, but this had a nice bitterness to balance the sweet. A great drink to sip in the pool on a very hot Florida afternoon.

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