Name: Muddled Mission
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 fresh Strawberries (fresh); 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Elderflower liqueur; 7.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 22.5 ml Lemon juice

Muddled Mission
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Plain Retro Coupette 15cl

Ingredients:
1 fresh	Strawberries (hulled, small & ripe)
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of fresh strawberry.

How to make:

MUDDLE strawberry in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with strawberry on rim.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

An easy-drinking, gin-laced sour with strawberry, elderflower and delicate herbal notes.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2008 by Joaquín Simó at Death & Co., Manhattan, New York City.

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Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

21.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Florian Ruf

17th May at 17:44

Normally I first try the original recipe, but today I had to start with an no-ABV version. I used 2 strawberries, 6cl o,o% Tanqueray, Mionetto 0,0%, elderflower syrup and added two drops saline solution and a grind of good black pepper. The result was really tasty, obviously not like the original.

peterme

14th May at 01:17

It's wild to me that the drinkers rate it more highly than The Guide. I rarely see that.

(Also: it's a delicious drink.)

Simon Sedgley

12th May at 11:56

We had a go at making a rum version of this. In place of the gin, we used 45ml of white overproof pot still rum and added just 2.5ml Rum Agricole (as an echo of gin's botanical notes). Also, we substituted lime for the lemon juice. And we muddled two strawberries instead of just the one. We love the original and, to our taste, this is just a slightly deeper and more serious variant.

Simon Sedgley

9th May at 12:08

Really luscious, nicely balanced and delicate complexity. As another commenter indicated, an extra strawberry in the muddle doesn't go astray. An excellent summer party cocktail.

Simon Sedgley

9th May at 12:17

One of our favourite things about cocktails is that deciphering their names can be a bit like solving a cryptic crossword. We guess that the name here is a subtle and gently humorous reference to the Carthusian monks who produce the incomparable Chartreuse. And we are sure that the good men of the book love their strawberries.

Loz Horner

3rd May at 18:01

This is, as the rating I have given it proves, exceptional. Especially if you add an extra strawberry.

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