Trying to find a lemon juice heavy cocktail and came across this. I switched to all lemon juice and omitted the egg white and grapefruit bitters. It’s quite sour with the same ratio used as per this recipe, some experimenting might find a better overall balance.
My Word
Chartreuse Yellow, Maraschino liqueur, Lemon juice, Gin
The salt detracts in this cocktail, sorry, still prefer a classic negroni
Floral 47
Gin, Red grapefruit juice, Elderflower liqueur, Pamplemousse liqueur
Monkey Juice
Gin, Pamplemousse liqueur, Red grapefruit juice, Grapefruit bitters
Monkey Scent
Gin, Elderflower liqueur, Lemon juice
German 47
Gin, Red grapefruit juice, Powdered sugar, Brut sparkling wine
I didn’t know lavender was used in the distillation step, I re tasted this neat and diluted with water and, it maybe psychological, but I now taste the subtle lavender. I don’t get lime, I get more of a grapefruit citrus. Indeed I use grapefruit as a garnish in my GnT. This is my favourite gin, but the price means I use it on only selected occasions !
45ml each of gin and pink port with 30ml of lime juice has a better balance.
Had some left over Limoncello from a summer dinner party, when we were allowed to mix indoors with 6 ! Had the ingredients for this so thought why not give it a go. Lemoney, nice, but a tad on the sweet side for me. Would be good on a bar cocktail menu.
Spotted this when you did a feature on grand marnier and thought the absinthe would be an interesting mix. I don’t have all the bartender gear so judging three dashes is difficult to balance the cocktail. We enjoyed it, but it’s not going to be in our top favourites. It’s very pleasant, balanced not sweet or dry, can just about make out the grand marnier behind the absinthe. Gin and vermouth seem to play a “dilution” role primarily for the absinthe.
For me this is better than a Porn Star martini, more balanced and interesting.
Both my daughters like a Porn Star Martini and during lockdown we couldn't get lemons and limes, but could get grapefruit so we decided to try this cocktail. My daughters enjoy this more than me and would probably score this a bit higher. I found it a fraction too sweet for my taste and we did try without the sugar syrup, but, as we found out, the sugar syrup is needed to balance the "bitterness" of the grapefruit, not the sourness.
I found the alcoholic hit a bit too much, but the elderflower tasted good with the fizz.
We love this cocktail in our house. The only issue is our ice dispenser makes crushed ice, but nothing like what you get in a cocktail bar so the "effect" of the creme de mure is not quite as effective, but still tastes great. I did consider using the food processor to blitz down the ice, but it wasn't entirely successful!
This is a great twist on an Aviation, we enjoyed this.
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.
This recipe is still great without the creme de violette and a firm favourite in our house; plus I don't have any creme de violette !
Having tried this a couple of times, I have tweaked this recipe a bit and go 1 measure of lime juice and try not to let the ice dilute the cocktail too much. I found the Roses made it a fraction too sweet for me, but I didn't want to lose the lime "hit".
The plethora of ingredients leads, surprisingly, to a good refreshing, if alcoholic, cocktail.
Having found The French 75 I went looking for an orange "equivalent" on Simon Difford's excellent website and found this; I even bought the orange bitters especially or it. It's a good cocktail and tastes nicely orangey, not particularly of apricots. Maybe a fraction too sweet for me so I've scored down a bit. I prefer the French 75 over this when I fancy a "fizz-based" cocktail.