Name: East 8 Hold-up cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 15 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 20 ml Pineapple juice; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 5 ml Passion fruit syrup

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

1/2 fl oz

Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo

2/3 fl oz

Pineapple juice

1/2 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1/4 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

1/6 fl oz

Monin Passion Fruit Syrup

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of East 8 Hold-up cocktail contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
13.44% alc./vol. (26.89° proof)
15.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in 2010 by Kevin Armstrong at Milk & Honey, London. The name comes from the part of London where Kevin lived, E8, an area where muggings were commonplace.

One night Kevin had just dropped Sam Jeveons off during their taxi ride home and Sam stopped to take a leak. While pissing against a wall with his trousers dropped around his feet, a guy came up behind him, stepped on his trousers and told him to hand over his wallet. Sam ended up chasing the guy with trousers around his ankles. The episode became known as the East 8 Hold Up.

Comments & Discussion

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Adam G. Manning 2y

My Spec is slightly tweaked:

45ml 50% Vodka
40ml Pineapple
15ml Lime
15ml Aperol
15ml Passionfruit Syrup (Teisseire)
2 Dashes Peychaud's Bitters

Yes, the Pineapple is a litter richer, but the higher Vodka helps cut through that and clean it up. I like this Teisseire syrup a lot. It has the most passionfruit juice in it..

Michelle Bell 2y

I suppose Vodka would make taste cleaner?! I do not have one, so used Pisco instead. Really fruity and love the passion fruit finish….I will try with Vodka next time.

Antoine Cathelain 2y

Went with vanilla vodka and 1cl of passionfruit syrup (and no sugar syrup obviously), it was great !

Mark Catone 2y

Liked this very much. Just right on sweet vs sour for us. May try Aperol next time as I used Campari on this go.

Timothy Frost 2y

Used 1/4oz passion fruit and omitted the sugar syrup. I’m not normally a fan of vodka cocktails, but this was spot on.

Sandip Gohil 3y

I've just made this now with lime Stoli vodka. It's interesting, you get a lot more lime notes without the acidity. Might try making this with orange vodka next as well