Beverly Hills Hotel Cocktail

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (46 ratings)

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 23 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz Elderflower liqueur
1 oz Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare rosemary sprig for garnish.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with rosemary sprig.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10

Review:

Zingy grapefruit sourness balances rich elderflower in this gin-laced cocktail which you might consider enjoying with your breakfast. That's how they rock in Beverly Hills!

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History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2007 by Philip Spee at The Beverly Hills Hotel, California, USA.

Nutrition:

One serving of Beverly Hills Hotel Cocktail contains 197 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 17.78% alc./vol. (17.78° proof)
  • 19.6 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
26th May 2023 at 00:42
Since our grapefruit are tree ripened, they tend to be a little sweeter. Reduced the Elderflower by 1/4. The resulting cocktail was outstanding. Definitely going on our cocktail rotation.
13th January 2022 at 18:42
This can be improved by using Sir Robin of Locksley gin (which has elderflower in its botanicals and goes very well with a pink grapefruit garnish in a G&T).

Brings all the flavours together in a slightly smoother manner.

We call this “The Sir Robin of Beverly Hills”.
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Anonymous

9th January 2022 at 18:44
Elderfower dominates too much in my opinion, and taste is really basic. Grapefuit juice and elderflower should marry well, but I would choose another recipe.
7th December 2021 at 21:29
Super! Used blood-graprfruit which turned out very well. Will be one of our ”house cocktails”. Proportions seem ok to us.
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Anonymous

2nd January 2021 at 03:25
Great bright holiday cocktail. Looks like it might trace its distant origins to the "Flower power," a "bucolic English nickname for a mixed drink from elderflower cordial and gin or vodka." (Ned Halley, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink: An A-Z of Alcoholic Beverages, 2005, p. 230). Adding grapefruit juice is genius. For variations check out Wild Blossom, Old Friend and Old Mexican Friend.
simon kitchen’s Avatar simon kitchen
29th June 2020 at 16:21
Gin and elderflower, what's not to like. Had to buy grapefruits for our GnT garnish during Covid lockdown, due to lack of lemons and limes, so we tried a few grapefruit based cocktails.
Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
1st July 2020 at 18:59
I've cut the gin back by 10ml and realised that it's best served with my breakfast toast.