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Easy Street
Two different gin cocktails published under one name.
Go to the recipe ↓Easy Street is the name of two different gin drinks. Chad Larson's, from Williams & Graham in Denver and published by Punch, is a cobbler riff with Byrrh and muddled berries. It is served over pebble or cracked ice and finished with Peychaud's bitters and a port top. Anthony Schmidt's, from the book A Spot at the Bar and posted by Frederic Yarm on Cocktail Virgin, is an elderflower drink lengthened with soda water in a Collins glass and garnished with cucumber. Beyond gin, lemon and syrup, the two need different bottles and glassware, so choose by what you have.
Punch: Chad Larson's cobbler riff
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
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Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Muddle the blackberry and half strawberry in a mixing tin.
- Add the gin, Byrrh, lemon juice and simple syrup.
- Add ice and shake until the drink is cold and diluted.
- Strain into a double Old-Fashioned glass, then add pebble or cracked ice.
- Dash the Peychaud's bitters over the ice, then top with the port.
Garnish Mint sprig, a skewered blackberry and half strawberry, and a short straw.
- The berries on the ingredient list go into the tin. The garnish skewer needs a second blackberry and half strawberry, so buy both sets.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Cocktail Virgin: Anthony Schmidt's elderflower Collins
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Shake the gin, lemon juice, St-Germain and simple syrup with ice.
- Double strain into a Collins glass with 2 oz soda water.
- Top with ice.
Garnish Two cucumber slices.
- The two cucumber slices on the ingredient list go on as the garnish. No step shakes or muddles them.
- Have soda water on hand. It goes into the glass and is not shaken.
- Yarm made the drink with St. Elder as the elderflower liqueur in place of St-Germain.
Recipe source: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com ↗
Same gin, lemon and syrup base
Both versions start from the same measures of gin, lemon juice and simple syrup. Larson's puts Byrrh and berries in the shaker. The bitters and port go into the glass after straining, so neither is shaken. Schmidt's shakes in elderflower liqueur instead, and its only liquid addition in the glass is soda water.