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Green Fizz

Name: Green Fizz
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 15 ml Green crème de menthe; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 60 ml Soda water

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Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Giffard Peppermint Pastille crème de menthe
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water (chilled)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Fizz or Highball (8oz to 10oz)

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a FIZZ OR HIGHBALL (8OZ TO 10OZ) GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel and mint leaf.

Method

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass. (No ice in glass.)
TOP with soda.

Garnish

Garnish with mint leaf and lemon slice on rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Green Fizz contains 178 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
11.26% alc./vol. (22.53° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

A mid-19th-century classic first published in R. de Fleury's 1934 book 1700 Cocktails For The Man Behind The Bar with a recipe missing the soda water.

GREEN FIZZ
1/2 Coates' Plymouth Gin
1/6 Creme de Menthe
1/3 Lemon Juice
1 Dash Syrup
R. de Fleury, 1700 Cocktails For The Man Behind The Bar, 1934

Review

A minty freshening after dinner fizz.

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Dietmar 45w

Green crème de menthe should be correct.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 45w

Thanks for bringing to my attention. Now corrected.

Tom W 5y

The proportion of creme de menthe in this cocktail is spot on for my taste - pleasantly minty without becoming overly toothpaste-flavoured. Also, the sourness of the lemons is balanced by the sugar syrup.

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