Name: Lemon Drop Crusta
Total time: 8 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 15 ml Limoncello liqueur; 20 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Lemon bitters

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Pallini Limoncello liqueur

²⁄₃ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

2 dash

Fee Brothers Lemon Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.

Select a small wine or flute glass with a rim diameter that will snugly accommodate a small lemon tightly enough to act as a watertight extension to the glass. Cut off both ends of the fruit and carefully remove the pulp to leave a barrel-shaped shell of skin. Place in the top of the glass. Wet the edge of the glass and exposed fruit shell with sugar syrup and dip in caster sugar to frost the edge of both peel and glass. Leave for a couple of hours to form a hard crust.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass with pre-crusted rim.

Garnish

Due to attractive pre-crusted rim, no further garnish is required.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Lemon Drop Crusta contains 133 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.51% alc./vol. (37.02° proof)
17.5 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Rob de Santos Premium Member 2w

A classic and still good. I just did a sugared rim and dropped a lemon slice into the drink to slowly add some tart to balance the sweet.

Charlie Forbes Premium Member 2y

For those who might find a little more tartness preferable (such as She Who Must Be Obeyed), add another half ounce of lemon juice.

Lugless Booth 3y

Eschewed the labor intensive garnish to make a fantastic drink for those who crave sweet. My wife loves it! Used Boston Bitters de Bittermens instead of bonafide lemon bitters. I also trimmed the syrup (brown sugared) a tad, since the limoncello is already dulcet.

Charlie Forbes Premium Member 2y

Agreed re: garnish. You can get most of the way home w/ a long twist, carefully curled around a straw and then draped languidly across the rim of the glass.