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Raspberry Collins

Name: Raspberry Collins
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 10 fresh Raspberries; 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Raspberry liqueur; 45 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 dash Orange bitters; 22.5 ml Soda water

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Ingredients
10 fresh	Raspberries
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Giffard Crème de Framboise
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
3 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura (optional)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered raspberry and lemon slice wheel.

Method

MUDDLE raspberries in base of shaker.
Add next 5 ingredients (all but soda) and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda and briefly stir.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered lemon slice wheel and raspberry (sail).

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
12.71% alc./vol. (25.42° proof)
21.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 1999 by Cairbry Hill, London, England.

Review

A popular modern-day adaptation of the classic Collins with a whopping 45ml (1½oz) of lemon juice, yet is far from being overly sour. (I've tried reducing the lemon and rebalancing with less sugar but the result is a lesser cocktail.)

Variations/similar cocktails

Raspberry Debonnaire

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.72 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Giffard Creme de Framboise 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$31.09 $0.62 per cocktail Giffard Creme de Framboise image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$14.99 $0.30 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 128 cocktails
$13.99 $0.11 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Ryan Harrold Premium Member 2y

I tried making this cocktail with and without fine straining and I personally preferred making this by fine straining, since you don’t get little bits of raspberry getting sucked up through the straw, since I can be picky with fruit sometimes, but both ways work fine and overall this cocktail is pretty good

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Agreed. Thanks, Ryan. I've amended to say fine strain.

Kurt Worden 4y

Very good, Could use a stronger gin.

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