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Reality Check

Name: Reality Check
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 fresh Raspberries; 20 ml Vodka; 20 ml Becherovka liqueur; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 82.5 ml Pilsner lager; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (13)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
5 fresh	Raspberries
2/3 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
2/3 fl oz	Becherovka liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 3/4 fl oz	Pilsner lager
1/3 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Rum barrel mug or pint glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a RUM BARREL MUG OR PINT GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.

Method

MUDDLE raspberries in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients and THROW with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
10.41% alc./vol. (20.82° proof)
15.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Pilsner lager — Cereals containing gluten

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2013 by Simone Caporale at the Artesian Bar, Langham Hotel, London, England. One of five finalists in the Difford's Guide Beer-tail Competition held 9th August 2013 in London.

More cocktails by Simone Caporale

Review

Raspberry fruit, herbal complexity and dry hoppy beer with a splash of zesty lime. Fabulously refreshing.

Cocktail of the day:

24th January 2026 is Beer Can Appreciation Day

Comments & Discussion

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Dietmar 10w

Add ice and other ingredients then THROW (strain from a height into a second shaker).

I think correct is "second shaker" not "second strainer".

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 10w

Thanks for bringing to my attention. I have switched to our newer style, "How to make", which links to instructions on how to throw.

Hunter Newsome 4y

One of those "the whole is better than the sum of its parts" drinks. Bravo Simone. It's even great with the poor unripe raspberries I could find, can't wait to try it in the summer with quality ones.

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