Name: Diana's Bitter
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Red bitter liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Diana's Bitter
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

How to make:

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

Garnish:

Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

One for aficionados of gin-laced bittersweet cocktails.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Diana's Bitter contains 187 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
17.75% alc./vol. (17.75° proof)
17.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Daniel Askerdal

31st July at 17:51

Surprisingly good! I did not have any rich syrup so i used 3 cl simple syrup instead. Very well balanced and flavorful. Not quite as good as Love and murder but when you have to ration the USA of green chartreuse this is a good alternative.

Yossi Burg

5th May 2024 at 11:58

No Strucchi in our house -instead used Luxardo Bitter.
I wasn't sure what it would be like with lime juice, but enjoyed this immensely, the lime highlights the Italian Bitter-it's a drink to savour as it has a strong bite . Love it.
However I did knock down the volume to 45ml gin, 22.5 both Bitter and lime juice with a healthy 10ml of rich syrup and into a coupe.