Name: Lazy Lover
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Cucumber (fresh); 1 pinch Salt; 30 ml Mezcal; 22.5 ml Gentian liqueur; 7.5 ml Brown sugar syrup; 7.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice

Lazy Lover
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
3 slice	Cucumber (fresh)
1 pinch	Salt (sea salt)
1 oz	Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal
³⁄₄ oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
¹⁄₄ oz	Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)
¹⁄₄ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

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Garnish: Cucumber slice & dust with cinnamon

How to make:

MUDDLE cucumber slices and salt in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and strain into ice-filled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Boozy

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Savoury and lightly bittersweet. An interesting apéritif cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2015 by Tess Anne Sawyer at The Up & Up, New York City, USA, which came to us courtesy of gazregan.com.

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G. M. Genovese

15th November 2024 at 17:29

Some sort of nice flavors going on but, between the Ceylon cinnamon, Siete Misterios, and Salers, there's just a strange inflection to its bitterness and mouth feel. I'm not sure the demerara is appropriate either. Why not use agave? And I'm feeling like a proper half sour pickle is preferable over straight cukes.

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G. M. Genovese

15th November 2024 at 17:37

Yes! Two Ba-Tampte half sour slices (some garlic and dill infusion) and one English cuke slice worked out lovely and the agave sub (5 ml) was what this needed. Now I could drink a few of those.

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