Name: Cherry Springer
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Sour cherry gin; 10 ml White crème de menthe; 10 ml Cherry brandy; 20 ml Lemon juice; 2 dash Chocolate bitters

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Luxardo Sour Cherry Gin

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Giffard Menthe Pastille white crème de menthe

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Cherry (brandy) liqueur

²⁄₃ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

2 dash

Chocolate bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with mint sprigs bouquet and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cherry Springer contains 168 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
18.06% alc./vol. (36.11° proof)
15.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

We're indebted to Gareth "G" Franklin of Luxardo fame for bringing this brilliantly named recipe, adapted from a drink originally created in 2018 by Filip Palkiewicz at Mercy Brown, Kraków, Poland, to our attention. Naturally, G uses Luxardo's excellent Sangue Morlacco cherry liqueur when he makes this drink.

Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 1y

Retired with more exact ingredients, including Giffard Creme de menthe and Sangue Morlacco. Surprisingly subtle and very well balanced. Mint cherry chocolate - yum! I can easily see this being a dinner party crowd pleaser.

Thomas Crichton 1y

In my rush to try this I used a clear triple sec instead of creme de menthe in error. Actually it worked very nicely and readers who are not too keen on mint may wish to try this as a variant.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

After dinner mints on acid. I’m not sure minttu works with this, but it’s what I had. Pretty much as described. Sangue Morlacco definitely worked better than cherry Heering, which I guess shouldn’t be surprising. Had to cut the lemon by half due to current crop. Overall very tasty, tangy and richly dessert-like.