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Crowbar Hotel

Name: Crowbar Hotel
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Habenero bourbon; 25 ml Elderflower liqueur; 25 ml Pink grapefruit juice

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Habenero-infused bourbon whiskey
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Elderflower liqueur
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare rosemary sprig for garnish.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Rosemary sprig.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Crowbar Hotel contains 171 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
17.8% alc./vol. (35.6° proof)
18.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in September 2021 by yours truly at the Clocktower in Rye, England.

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Review

A riff on Philip Spee's 2007 Beverly Hills Hotel Cocktail. Apparently, in cowboy lingo, a "crowbar hotel" is a jail, so when presented with a renegade whiskey I went in search of a suitably hospitable cocktail.

St Germain Elderflower Liqueur 200ml - makes 8 cocktails
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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 5w

Very tasty. And it awakened the tinkerer that always lurks in our souls. So we went slightly spicier. Having no chilli infused Bourbon, we went with 45ml Elijah Craig Small Batch and 5ml Giffard Pimente d'Espellete. We kept the Elderflower as specified, added 10ml Giffard Ginger of the Indies and split the juice 15ml grapefruit and 10ml lime. We would have liked to incorporate pineapple juice, perhaps just 2.5ml, but had none to hand...maybe next time. We floated a dehydrated lime wheel as the garnish.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 5w

Forgot to say, we also threw into the shaker two whole cloves.

Matthew Fowler Premium Member 6w

Added 5ml of Ancho Reyes to straight bourbon try and get the same effect as the chilli bourbon. Seemed to do the trick, definitely got some heat from the drink but in no way overpowering. Could still taste all of the individual elements.