Name: Creole Gimlet
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Gin; 15 ml Falernum liqueur; 7.5 ml Lime cordial; 1 dash Creole bitters

Creole Gimlet
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime cordial (sweetened lime juice)
1 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Review:

Falernum adds a touch of Caribbean spice to this Gimlet.

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History:

Created in 2009 by Gonçalo de Sousa Monteiro, Berlin, Germany.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Creole Gimlet contains 216 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
27.14% alc./vol. (27.14° proof)
26.5 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Florian Ruf

11th September 2024 at 14:26

Excellent cocktail but in my opinion more kind of Dirty Martini than Gimlet. To give the cocktail more the Gimlet direction it is possible to add one ore two bar spoons of lime juice without changing the other ingredients.