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Gin Sour

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

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1/2 fl oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer (optional)
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s (optional)

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Prepare

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.)

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice).
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered lemon slice wheel and maraschino cherry (sail).

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gin Sour contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
15.35% alc./vol. (30.69° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

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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Comments & Discussion

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Andre Derailleur Premium Member 2y

Made with my quince syrup.

[removed] 5y

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Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Whoops! now fixe. Thanks for bringing to my attention.

Sam Hankins 6y

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 Verified User Premium Member 6y

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.