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Cumbersome

Name: Cumbersome
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 4 inch Cucumber (fresh); 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Red bitter liqueur; 30 ml Orange juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

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Ingredients
4 inch	Cucumber (fresh)
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1/2 fl oz	Italian red bitter liqueur
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of thin cucumber slice.

Method

MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker. (Ideally, cut skin from the cucumber log before chopping).
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Float cucumber slice for garnish.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

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

22.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in 2002 by Shelim Islam at the GE Club in London, England.

More cocktails by Shelim Islam

Review

Interesting and fresh as you like with a pleasant bitterness.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
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Campari Bitter 375ml - makes 25 cocktails
$19.99 $0.80 per cocktail Campari Bitter image

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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Matthew Parshchikov 22w

Love this combination of sweet cucumber and bitter. 10 cm of cucumber seemed a bit much and it was. My small shaker tin was half full after shaking. The flavor was perfect though! I will half everything for a single serving next time

Prithvi Vallabh 1y

7.5/10 if Aperol instead of Campari and I used a grapefruit-cucumber gin to mirror the citrus and cucumber and added a dash of lemon for more acidity.

Michael Z 2y

A bitter drink trying to be sweet. If making again, would reduce sugar.

Myxo Gastrid 3y

Sweetened campari and cucumber. It works, but it's very strange to me somehow. Interesting but not something I'd make again.

dan huff 4y

Light and summery. My spouse very much enjoyed it. I found the Campari aftertaste conflicted with the cucumber. Not my fav.