Bellevue Hotel, Philadelphia, ~1890s.
| 1½ oz · 45 ml | GIN | 40 % |
| ½ oz · 15 ml | LEMON JUICE | |
| ½ oz · 15 ml | RASPBERRY SYRUP | |
| 1 splash | EGG WHITE |
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
| Pre-batch | 2.75 oz mixed with ice, 0.6 oz of it pure alcohol |
|---|---|
| Melt | Shaken: +20 % of the pre-batch, +0.55 oz of water |
| Served | 2.75 + 0.55 = 3.3 oz in the glass |
| Strength | 0.6 ÷ 3.3 = 18.2 % ABV as served |
| Ethanol | 0.6 oz × 29.57 ml × 0.789 g/ml = 14 g · about 98 kcal from the alcohol alone |
FROM GIN
The pine note in juniper berries, and the reason gin tastes like a forest. Co-distilled with the spirit during production. Found in actual pine trees, rosemary, basil, and a good London Dry. The "Christmas tree" smell of gin and the smell of a forest floor share a single molecule.
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FROM LEMON · the lemon aroma
Lemon's defining note: technically a mix of two geometric isomers (geranial and neral) that read as the same aroma to the nose. Lemon peel, lemongrass, lemon verbena, and Indian chai all carry it. In cocktails it's what a lemon twist contributes that lemon juice can't: the volatile expressed from the oil glands, not the acid from the pulp.
ALSO IN Margarita · Mojito · Daiquiri · Whiskey Sour · Gimlet · Moscow Mule · Paper Plane · Aviation
Gin, lemon, raspberry and egg white. Raspberry ketone and alpha-ionone from the raspberry syrup combine with gin's alpha-pinene for a floral-fruit nose. The egg white foam traps the volatiles at the surface, so the first sip is intensely aromatic.
Born at the Clover Club, a Philadelphia men's club of journalists, lawyers and writers that met at the Bellevue Hotel, predecessor of the Bellevue-Stratford. Pre-Prohibition, the Clover Club was sufficiently popular that the drink got a permanent cultural foothold; it faded after Prohibition, dismissed by mid-century drinkers as dated. Revived by Julie Reiner at her Brooklyn bar, also named Clover Club, in 2008.
