Name: Northern Glow
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Triple sec; 30 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 10 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 3 dash Rhubarb bitters

Northern Glow
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
1 oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 dash	Rhubarb bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of pink grapefruit zest.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Review:

A White Lady with grapefruit juice and so an extra dash of sugar to balance. Tasty.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in November 2012 by Tim McCall, then Assistant Bar Manager at the Great Northern Hotel in London. Tim originally christened his new creation Northern Sour but by the time we discovered it at the hotel's Plum + Spilt Milk bar, in July 2013, it had been renamed Northern Glow, and even Tim says "the name change is a little better."

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Nutrition:

One serving of Northern Glow contains 181 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.29% alc./vol. (16.29° proof)
18.1 grams of pure alcohol

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james McMakin

20th March at 22:04

I was curious as to why the photograph seems to contain ice and the description doesn’t so I made one of each and preferred the one with ice. Probably something to do with being an American.

Simon Difford

21st March at 07:22

Thanks for binging to my attention, James. An error in the instructions, which I've now corrected.

David Hoyle

11th June 2024 at 18:05

Triple Sec and grapefruit seem often to be a winning combination and this cocktail is a case in point. The flavours are all well-integrated to produce a fruity, zesty drink with a kick. Rhubarb Bitters being pretty subtle in my opinion, folks may wish to add more...

K&J in Calgary

6th August 2020 at 04:31

Freah and citrusy on the nose but surprisingly complex and almost spiky on the palate. Well balanced and nice finish (dry). More than the sum of its parts; rhubarb bitters do a lot to help make this drink stand out.

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