CLASSIC · LONDON DRY GIN

Cloister

Name: Cloister
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 drink
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml London Dry Gin; 15 ml Yellow Chartreuse; 15 ml Fresh Grapefruit Juice; 10 ml Fresh Lemon Juice; 5 ml Simple Syrup; Grapefruit Twist

Yellow Chartreuse and grapefruit, held together with gin — herbal, honeyed and a little monastic, exactly as the name promises.

Ingredients

London Dry Gin45 ml

Yellow Chartreuse15 ml

Fresh Grapefruit Juice15 ml

Fresh Lemon Juice10 ml

Simple Syrup5 ml

Grapefruit Twist

Glassware

Coupe glass

Chilled.

Coupe glasses, set of 4Ad

Flavor

Cardamom · Grapefruit · Honey · Juniper · Orange peel

Estimated profile

A cigar alongside More like this

Method

1
Chill a coupe glass.
2
Combine the gin, yellow Chartreuse, grapefruit juice, lemon juice and simple syrup in a shaker.
3
Add ice and shake hard for 10–12 seconds.
4
Fine-strain into the chilled coupe.
5
Garnish with a grapefruit twist.

The kit for this drink

Glassware Shake and strain Prep and serve

From the Bartender

A mid-century American classic that survives largely because bartenders needed something to do with the yellow Chartreuse bottle. Gentler and sweeter than its green-Chartreuse cousins like the Last Word or the Final Ward.

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