Cocktail recipes

Mr. Pimm’s Saturday Afternoon Affair

Ingredients:

• 1 oz vodka
• 0.5 oz Pimm’s Cup No. 1
• 0.5 oz Cointreau
• 1 lemon
• 4 shakes Angostura Bitters
• 3 shakes Fee Brothers West Indies Orange Bitters
• Ginger Beer (Bundaberg, Reed’s, or Cock & Bull)
• (optional) Tea bag (black, chai, or Bengal Spice)

(1 oz = 30 ml)

Directions:

1. Juice lemon into ice-filled shaker.
2. Add Cointreau, Pimm’s, and vodka.
3. Add both bitters, plus tea bag (if desired).
4. Shake and strain into highball glass with 3 or 4 ice cubes.
5. Top with ginger beer.

You can adjust the strength of the drink by varying the amount of vodka (0x - 2x works). You can adjust sweetness by varying the ratio of Pimm’s to Cointreau, as long as the total volume of the two is 1 oz (personally, I prefer 0.33 Cointreau and 0.66 Pimm’s). Also, be careful about the amount of ginger beer you top with, it’s easy to get too sweet.

If you don’t have bitters, you can get away with just using tea and steeping in the shaker for an extra minute. The Bengal Spice is especially good in this case. However, DO NOT try to make this drink without either tea or bitters, it’s nasty! (Cathy calls it Mr. Pimm’s Breakup when I forget the bitters.)

/Brian Karlak (July 2014)

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