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Cosmopolitan
by MyBeverageGuide

Recipe & Ingredients

  • 40 ml: Hygge Vodka (vodka)
  • 20 ml: Cointreau (orange liqueur)
  • 20 ml: Lime Juice Fresh (citrus juice)
  • 50 ml: (cranberry juice)
  • 10 ml: Simple Syrup (sugar syrup)

Preparation

Categories:
Bittersweet Fresh Modern
Glassware: Coupette
Ice: crushed ice to chill the glassware
ice cubes for shaking

Technique

hard-shake / doublestrain

Garnish

  • 1x orange twist, Cut the orange zest into a diamond shape. Squeeze the zest a little, to release the oils of the zest over the drink. Place it onto the rim of the glass.

Drink Description

<<The Cosmopolitan just got a new city as his hometown, its called Hamburg =)>>

Mixing Instructions

  1. Juice the lime, and add both the lime juice and the squeezed lime into the shaker.
  2. Add all other remaining ingredients into the shaker.
  3. Add ice cubes.
  4. Dry shake for about 20 seconds.
  5. Double-Strain the mixed liquid into the chilled serving glass with no ice.
  6. Add your garnish.

Detailed Recipe Instructions

  1. Prepare your Mise en Place.
  2. Prepare your bottle setup.
  3. Chill the serving glass with either crushed ice or ice cubes. Or place it in a fridge or freezer.
  4. Prepare your garnish.
  5. Juice the lime, and add both the lime juice and the squeezed lime into the shaker.
  6. Add all other remaining ingredients into the shaker.
  7. Shake for about 20 seconds.
  8. Take the chilled glass out of the fridge/freezer. If you used ice to chill the serving glass, remove everything from the glass.
  9. Double-Strain the mixed liquid into the chilled serving glass with no ice inside.
  10. Add your garnish.
  11. Clean up your working station.

Mixing Tips

General

  • Start with the cheapest ingredients (the syrup) first.

Glassware

  • A chilled glass keeps your drink longer and more enjoyable. Your used ice will melt slower, and the taste will stay longer.

Technique

  • While pressing the citrus fruit, for example, lemon or lime. You could use the pressed fruit and give it into the shaker as a fragrant ingredient. It will release some of the oils while shaking the drink. After you better double-strain it.
  • If you double-strain the drink after shaking it, it will prevent those tiny particles of the herbs or spices from floating on top of the guest's glass.

Garnish

  • Be careful and confident if you want to zest a citrus fruit with a zest peeler!
  • If you cut a fruit zest into an excellent shape. You could add the slight leftover zest to your drink. It will release some more oils while shaking the drink.

Mise en Place

Ice:

crushed ice to chill the glassware
ice cubes for shaking

Bar Equipment:

Zester
Tin Tin Shaker
Jigger
Hand Press Juicer
Fine Mesh Strainer
Knife

Garnish:

1x orange twist

Editor Recipe Notes

For the Cosmopolitan, we are using fresh lime juice. We cut the lime in half and squeezed it in a hand press squeezer. To add the extra taste to the drink, we add the juice and the squeezed pericarp.
Additionally once we prepared the garnish, the orange peel, we used the leftover cut fruit and added if also into the drink.
Now you got lime and orange oils in your drink. While shaking, you can release more of them. And your drink will be even more delicious after that.

Essential Infos

Name:
Cosmopolitan

Style:
Cosmopolitan

Bar Technique:
shake
double strain
zest a fruit

Ingredients by Category:

vodka
orange liqueur
citrus juice
cranberry juice
sugar syrup

Garnish:
orange twist

Color:
intense pink

Flavour and Texture

Aroma

Blackcurrant (Cassis or Blackcurrant Bud)
orange

Flavour

apple red
orange

Texture

astrigent tannins
clean
delicate

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Updated: 27. December 2022
  • 5 min
160 ml = 1 serving