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Aristotle cocktail

Name: Aristotle cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 fresh Mint leaves; 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Mastiha liqueur; 45 ml Birch water; 4 drop Mint bitters

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Serves:

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Ingredients
3 fresh	Mint leaves
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Mastiha liqueur
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Birch water
4 drop	Mint bitters

Garnish: Mint leaf

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method:

Lightly MUDDLE mint in base of stirring glass. Add other ingredients, STIR with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

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:

21.8 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in August 2015 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

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Review

The thinking man's mixed drink, this is based on gin with the distinctive flavour of Greek mastiha and lengthened with birch water.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Skinos Mastiha 700ml - makes 23 cocktails
$36.99 $1.61 per cocktail Skinos Mastiha image

$3.67 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Martin Sowter 4y

Just drinking some Mastiha on ice in Greece right now… very interesting. File under fernet and amaro. V interesting cocktail ingredient.

Olivier Pernet 5y

What is birch water and how can it be made/purchased?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Birch water is literally tapped from the tree: http://www.tappedtrees.com/