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 'rich' (2:1); 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Ingredients

2 inch

Cucumber (fresh) (cored, skinned and chopped)

²⁄₃ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Mastiha liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

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

1 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters (optional)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare thin cucumber slice for garnish.

Method

MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker. (Ideally, cut skin from the cucumber log before chopping).

Add other ingredients.

SHAKE with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Float cucumber slice for garnish.

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:

16.1 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 47w

I honestly think you can use 3.5-4cm of cucumber instead and leave the core in. I've tried them both side by side and it didn't make much difference except less waste.

Overall it's a very "Fresh Cocktail". The subtle mint and pine from the Mastiha plays well with the cucumber. I don't get a ton of gin but it doesn't taste thin so it's obviously doing some work. It's a bit sweet for my taste so I lowered it to 5cl simple syrup and it still was pretty sweet. I actually think this could be served with 3cl soda water over ice as a long drink with Greek food and it would be amazing.

Niccolò Murtas 1y

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. Premium Member 1y

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.