Name: Winston's Crusta
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1&frasl;2 fresh Passion fruit; 30 ml Cognac (brandy); 20 ml Calvados apple brandy; 5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 20 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Grenadine syrup; 3 dash Creole bitters

Winston's Crusta
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₂ fresh	Passion fruit (fresh)
1 oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
²⁄₃ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₆ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
²⁄₃ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
3 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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Garnish: Float half passion fruit

How to make:

Scoop half passion fruit into shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Review:

Passion fruit strongly influences this fruity cocktail with cherry, grapefruit and lemon built over a solid cognac and apple brandy base.

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History:

Created in 2015 by Giovanni Spezziga at Scarfes Bar, London, England.

For more Crusta cocktail information see our page.

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.97% alc./vol. (15.97° proof)
16.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Andrew Willis

1st October 2022 at 02:01

Use a passion fruit syrup (10 mL) as a substitute for the fresh fruit, and found it too sweet. Threw in some Bob's Vanilla Bitters as well as some Saline Solution to help offset. Works out!