The Reindeer
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Gin and vodka with a little lemon and a spiced syrup, sharpened by muddled ginger and topped with champagne. The garnish is a holly sprig and a cherry.
Similar names: (the) Reindeer, Drunk Reindeer
Method
Shaken
Glass
flute
Difficulty
Medium
Flavor Profile
Ingredients
Servings:
1
Your bar: 0/5
🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free🍷 Contains sulphites
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AdInstructions
- Spicy sugar syrup
- Stir ½ cup sugar into ½ cup hot water in a pan until it dissolves.
- Drop in 1 cracked cinnamon stick, 1 tsp cracked Szechuan pepper and half a vanilla pod, split lengthwise.
- Cover and leave for 15 minutes.
- Strain and let the syrup cool.
- Cocktail
- Chill a flute.
- Muddle ginger in the bottom of a shaker.
- Add the gin, vodka, chili pepper sugar syrup and lemon juice, then shake with ice.
- Fine strain into the chilled flute.
- Top with champagne.
- Garnish with a holly sprig for the antlers and a Luxardo Maraschino cherry for the red nose.