Bitter Elder

Name: Bitter Elder
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Lemon Juice; 23 ml St-Germain; 15 ml Campari

A gin sour that sets the sweetness of St-Germain against the bitterness of Campari, sharpened with lemon juice. Shaken and served in a coupe.

The Bitter Elder dates to 2008, when a commenter using the name amateurhour posted a variation of an unnamed Aperol drink on Cocktail Chronicles. About a month later, another commenter confirmed the recipe on ohgo.sh.

Method

Shaken

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Medium

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal

Strong