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 (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters

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Glass:

Serve in a Rum barrel mug or pint glass

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

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Prepare:

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

How to make:

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.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Pilsner lager - Cereals containing gluten

Cocktail of the day:

24th January 2026 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:

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.

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Alcohol content:

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

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Dietmar

18th June at 19:06

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

19th June at 08:37

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

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.