A slightly sour bittersweet riff on the Pegu Club. The original is just on the tart side of balanced without our addition of the optional spoon of sugar...
I modified this a little with orange curacao and lime instead of Cointreau and lemon juice, and three dashes of grapefruit bitters, and it very much changes the character of the drink but it is extremely nice.
It's very nice, made it one day for a few people, the ladies like it much more then me or the other men... For me it's missing in complexity.
I would say it's very close to Grapefruit juice in it's flavor.
Liked this one. I used Meyer Lemons which aren’t as tart as Lisbon or other lemons. Cointreau and Campari are an interesting combo. I’m enjoying this only about 10 miles from Emeryville in the SF Bay Area, so it’s a home town cocktail !