Name: Berlin Sour
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Kummel liqueur; 15 ml Maraschino liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Berlin Sour
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Serve in a Sour or Martini/Coupette glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Kummel liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Sour or Martini/Coupette 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.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered lemon slice wheel and maraschino cherry (sail).

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Review:

The sweet powerful flavours of kummel and maraschino liqueurs are tamed and harnessed in this sour.

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History:

Created in 2009 by Thorsten Pannek at Hilton, Frankfurt, Germany.

Nutrition:

One serving of Berlin Sour contains 234 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
18.04% alc./vol. (18.04° proof)
20.3 grams of pure alcohol

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