Byzantine

Name: Byzantine
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 6 fresh Basil leaves; 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Passion fruit syrup; 15 ml Lemongrass cordial; 60 ml Pineapple juice; Top up with Tonic water

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Ingredients
6 fresh	Basil leaves
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Monin Passion Fruit Syrup
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime & lemongrass cordial
2 fl oz	Pineapple juice
Top up with	Thomas Henry Tonic Water

Garnish: Basil leaf

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Method:

MUDDLE basil in base of shaker. Add other ingredients apart from tonic water, SHAKE with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with tonic water.

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:

14.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in 2001 by Douglas Ankrah for Akbar, Soho, London, England.

More cocktails by Douglas Ankrah

Review

This fruity, herbal drink is even better made the way Douglas originally intended, with basil infused gin instead of muddled leaves.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Monin Passion Fruit Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$14.99 $0.30 per cocktail

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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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