Name: Juliet & Romeo
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 Cucumber (fresh); 8 Mint leaves; 1 Salt; 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 2 Saline solution

Serve in a

Coupe glass

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Michelangelo Coppa 225ml

Garnish:

Float 3 drops rose water, 3 drops Angostura bitters & mint leaf

How to make:

MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

3 slice	Cucumber (fresh)
8 fresh	Mint leaves
1 pinch	Salt
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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Review:

You smell rose water but taste gin, lime, cucumber and mint. A refreshing, summery cocktail.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2007 by Toby Maloney at The Violet Hour in Chicago and featured in his 2022 book The Bartender's Manifesto.

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Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
20.44% alc./vol. (40.88° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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