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Maverick

Name: Maverick
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 7 fresh Mint leaves; 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Homemade ginger syrup

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Ingredients
7 fresh	Mint leaves
3/4 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Ginger syrup (equal parts ginger juice to caster sugar by weight

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar 1920 Alto Coupe 18cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered crystallised ginger.

Method

Gently MUDDLE mint in base of shaker (just to bruise).
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

9.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created by Mike McCollum at Attaboy in Nashville, Tennessee.

Review

A minty gin-fresh riff on Sam Ross' Mosquito, and perhaps a little more approachable.

Variations/similar cocktails

Lantern Fly
Mosquito (by Sam Ross)
Praying Mantis

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Comments & Discussion

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Chris Dimal Commenter Appreciated Commenter 4 months ago

Quite sour and spicy actually. I did use Select instead of Aperol though.

Matheus Martins Appreciated Commenter Commenter 1 year ago

Masterpiece

Florian Ruf Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

Excellent cocktail, although I made a little variation using The King's Ginger instead of ginger syrup. In this case I suggest to use a bit less ginger and replace the rest by rich syrup.