Name: Gin Sour
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Old Tom gin; 30 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 3 dash Aromatic bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Gin Sour
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba or Egg white replacement (vegan) optional
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water) optional

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered lemon slice wheel and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry sail. (Skewer through either side of lemon with cherry skewered in the centre.)
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice).
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with skewered lemon slice wheel and maraschino cherry (sail).

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This 8:4:2 formula is a tad sourer than the classic sour proportions of 8:3:4 – two parts of the strong ingredient (gin), three-quarter parts of sour (lemon juice), one part of the sweet ingredient (sugar syrup). However, depending on your lemons, this should be perfectly balanced, especially if using old tom gin, as recommended. Hit the right balance, and this is a delicious cocktail.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Gin Sour contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
15.35% alc./vol. (15.35° proof)
18.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Andre Derailleur

1st April 2024 at 09:32

Made with my quince syrup.

Sam Hankins

15th August 2020 at 22:56

There's a bit of a kerfuffle on that "other" site about the necessity of an egg white to make a sour a sour. Some arguing that it's optional. Any thoughts?

Simon Difford

16th August 2020 at 09:40

Worth also seeing this page: https://www.diffordsguide.com/g/1133/sour-cocktails/ingredients

Simon Difford

16th August 2020 at 09:39

I personally wouldn't make a sour without egg unless pushed into it by circumstance or at the request of the person I'm making it for, but yes, it is optional, so I have marked accordingly above.