Name: Fresh Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 inch Cucumber (fresh); 20 ml Gin; 40 ml Mastiha liqueur; 10 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Fresh Cocktail
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe Engraved 7.75oz

Ingredients:
2 inch	Cucumber (fresh) cored, skinned and chopped
²⁄₃ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Kleos Mastiha liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters optional

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare thin cucumber slice for garnish.
MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients.
SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Float cucumber slice.

Review:

The distinctive fresh flavour of mastiha paired with cucumber, gin and lemon juice.

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Niccolò Murtas

13th March at 08:39

If you want to try a variation which i think is both tasty and incredibly good looking, I would suggest to cut half of a cucumber in small pieces, leave them in the shaker, shake them along with all the other ingredients and ice ( i usually add 10ml of gin) and pour them in the glass. You'll notice the "seeds" of the cucumber that look almost as ice crystals into a well-made white lady. The resulting colour is green, and, I'd suppose, more cucumber-forward. I found it excellent.

Frederic D.

17th February at 23:43

A very solid drink. Definitely cucumber and mastiha forward. The lemon juice isn't really detectable, but brings underlying freshness. The gin here is, somewhat unusually, playing more of a supporting role. I used Plymouth and its rounder, softer character worked really well with the other ingredients. Not an everyday sipper for me, but it went really well with my chicken/tzatziki/pita bread dinner.

Jacques Gaudin

24th November 2023 at 00:36

Fresh indeed, the combination and balance of flavours is remarkable. As symbiotic as it gets. Tried it with Hendricks.

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