Name: Juliet and Romeo
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 slice Cucumber (fresh); 1 pinch Salt; 8 fresh Mint leaves; 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Juliet & Romeo
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Photographed in a Michelangelo Coppa 225ml

Ingredients:
3 slice	Cucumber (fresh)
1 pinch	Salt (sea salt)
8 fresh	Mint leaves
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of rose water, aromatic bitters and mint leaf.
MUDDLE cucumber with salt in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Float 3 drops rose water and 3 drops of aromatic bitters, and peg mint leaf to rim.

Review:

You smell rose water but taste gin, lime, cucumber and mint. A refreshing, summery cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2007 by Toby Maloney at The Violet Hour in Chicago and featured in his 2022 book The Bartender's Manifesto.

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Howard Griffin

25th May at 17:23

I must be missing something in the specification of this cocktail. The ingredients list calls for 8 mint leaves while the instructions call for a garnish involving a single mint leaf. Are the other 7 mint leaves part of the "other ingredients" specified in step 4? Also, step 2 says to prepare a garnish of "3 rose water, aromatic bitters and mint leaf." What does "3 rose water" mean? Three drops? Are the 3 ingredients specified in step 2 the same 3 ingredients referenced in step 6? Sorry for being obtuse.

Simon Difford

25th May at 19:38

As with all our recipes, the items specified for the garnish (mint leaf, rose water and bitters) are in addition to the items listed as ingredients.

Caspian Berggren

30th March at 18:13

With the amount of ingredients you'd expect it to be a lot more flavorful than it actually is. From what I understand the cocktail was made for those who don't like gin and I can see why. It's mostly refreshing cucumber, some gin, some mint and salinity on the back end. I don't get much of the rose water at all.

Luca Brillante

8th March 2024 at 04:55

Why is the salt twice in the recipe (once as a pinch, another as solution)?

Angela Knox

5th February 2023 at 01:36

It's a good enough drink but it lacks a certain something. I was tempted to add a dash of green chartreuse as it reminded me of a Last Word sans the maraschino

andy nicholson

25th September 2022 at 11:42

Definition of a “pinch” of salt might be handy: first time I made these the salt overpowered the other flavours…

John Hinojos

9th August 2022 at 23:58

What a wonderful summer cocktail. Refreshing and perfect on a warm afternoon when you want to relax and decompress. Cucumber and mint work great together with the herbal of the gin.

Nick Bull

3rd July 2022 at 16:48

Really like this one. I used Brockman's gin. The slight salty edge is a nice touch. This is a perfect cocktail for an early summer's evening before dinner. Or breakfast, maybe ?