Name: Lachlan's Antiscorbutic
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Celery gin; 7.5 ml Raspberry liqueur; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2.5 ml Pickle juice

Lachlan's Antiscorbutic
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Rutte Celery Dry Gin
¹⁄₄ oz	Giffard Crème de Framboise
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₁₂ oz	Pickle juice/brine/vinegar from pickled cucumber/gherkin

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of fresh raspberry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

With its delicate shade of pink from a splash of raspberry liqueur, this cocktail is feistier than it appears with salty gherkin flavours combining brilliantly with celery gin.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2016 by Keli Rivers at Whitechapel Bar, San Francisco, USA. Keli presented this very tasty cocktail at a seminar on gin and genever at Tales of the Cocktail in July 2016, which is where we were lucky enough to first try it. Originally made with Rutte Celery Gin, the flavour of this gin contributes greatly to that of the finished cocktail.

Nutrition:

One serving of Lachlan's Antiscorbutic contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
19.5% alc./vol. (19.5° proof)
15.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Beth Schneider

23rd May at 19:58

Certainly worth a try. I learned that pickle brine in a cocktail is not really my thing.

Stephen Buckland

28th November 2022 at 15:56

As I didn't have celery gin I used homemade bay leaf gin instead. The savoury notes make this a wonderful pre-dinner cocktail.

Matts Häggblom

18th February 2022 at 16:47

Great and well rounded cocktail! Replaced the celery gin with normal gin + celery bitters. Worked like a charm!

Michael Westbrook

19th December 2021 at 21:49

I didn't have pickle brine so I used 2 dashes of apple cider vinegar, but still: holy crap this drink is amazing. Delecate light flavour, but weirdly also very round and hearty. An absolute joy.