Name: Easy Street
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Cucumber (fresh); 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 50 ml Soda water

Ingredients

3 slice

Cucumber (fresh)

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Elderflower liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

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

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of cucumber slice speared with mint sprigs bouquet.

Method

MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker. (Ideally, cut skin from the cucumber log before chopping).

Add next 4 ingredients and SHAKE with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda.

Garnish

Garnish with cucumber slice speared with mint sprigs bouquet.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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:

17 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Ryan Harrold Premium Member 11w

Between the Easy Street and the White Linen, I prefer the Easy Street, as it’s less Cucumber forward and the lemon juice works a little better with these ingredients, then the lime juice does in a White Linen, however if I was to make this drink again, I might ditch the simple syrup and add about 7.5ml or 1/4 fl oz elderflower liqueur and a few drops of saline solution to this drink, however overall both these drinks are pretty good and would definitely make them again

Bocman 34w

In my case, the cocktail was too watery, likely due to the excessive amount of cucumber juice 🥒
Nevertheless, it was a genuinely enjoyable and refreshing drink. 👍

Rolo Diaz 1y

This drink is very dangerous, it's almost like the blend cancel each other and it goes down like there no alcohol in it, smooth and refreshing, definitely a good drink for anyone that likes a cucumber forward drink.

Asher Günther 3y

Quite satisfying. Don't be afraid to overshoot the cucumber

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Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

Thanks. Please email me simon.difford@diffordsguide.com

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Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

I've found much conflicting evidence so I have credited both bartenders. I'll update as more info comes to light.

Fernando Yu 4y

Very light and refreshing! Some mint added would be great!

Bob Cook 5y

I was looking for a drink that uses gin, cucumber and elderflower liqueur and came across this one. I used blue peaberry-infused gin, because it was for my wife, and she doesn't really like regular gin. The result was very enjoyable. I was trying to match elderflower liqueur with the blue peaberry-infused gin, because I've seen some stuff promoting elderflower tonic with blue gin. And we had a fresh cucumber. The Easy Street is a good way to use the blue gin. A salad in a glass.