Name: Zima Sour
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Bison grass vodka; 20 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Passion fruit syrup; 15 ml Apple juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 3 dash Absinthe

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Bison grass vodka

²⁄₃ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Monin Passion Fruit Syrup

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer

3 dash

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of smouldering star anise.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN back into shaker.

DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Zima Sour contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
11.11% alc./vol. (22.22° proof)
13.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

History

Adapted from a recipe created by Robb Collins, Group Head Bartender at London Cocktail Club in London, England.

I created this in 2013 for the Monin 'Twist Your Classics' Competition, which I won. To this day I think it's the best drink I have ever created, so light and silky, yet amazing depth of flavour and definitely a drink you can have a few of.

Robb Collins, 2017

Comments & Discussion

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Zach Schwartz 35w

Not given much to go on with preparing the smoldering star anise, I held a star anise pod with a pair of metal tongs in the flame of my gas stove for a few seconds until it was flaming nicely. Turning off the stove, it remained smoldering and gave off a lovely aroma. Dropped it with a satisfying hiss into the foam of the cocktail. Side effect of making this cocktail is that it now smells like I just burnt incense in my kitchen, but I can’t complain!