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Serve in a Rum barrel mug or pint glass

Ingredients:
5 fresh Raspberries
2⁄3 oz Ketel One Vodka
2⁄3 oz Becherovka liqueur
1⁄4 oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 3⁄4 oz Pilsner lager
1⁄3 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Lime zest twist

How to make:

MUDDLE raspberries in base of large shaker tin. Add ice and other ingredients then THROW (strain from a height into a second strainer). Repeat four times and then strain into ice-filled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Cocktail of the day:

24th January 2025 is Beer Can Appreciation Day

Review:

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

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History:

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 at Simon Difford's Cabinet Room in London.

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Alcohol content:

  • 1 standard drinks
  • 10.41% alc./vol. (10.41° proof)
  • 14.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Hunter Newsome’s Avatar Hunter Newsome
6th May 2022 at 19:08
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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