Bramble
Gin, lemon and blackberries.
A gin sour served over crushed ice, with a ribbon of blackberry liqueur slowly bleeding down through the glass. Fresh and fruity, it shifts sip by sip as the mûre blends in.
- IBA · New Era
- Aperitif
- Shaken
- Glass
- Rocks glass
- Method
- Shaken
- Strength
- Medium
- Time
- 3 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Ice
- Crushed
Ingredients
Measures for 1 serving
-
Gin
50 ml
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Lemon juice
25 ml
-
Simple syrup
12.5 ml
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Crème de mûre
15 ml
Garnish
- Lemon slice (optional)
- Blackberries (optional)
Proportions
How to make
- Chill an old fashioned glass.
- Fill the glass with crushed ice.
- Pour the gin into the shaker.
- Add the lemon juice.
- Add the sugar syrup.
- Fill the shaker with ice.
- Shake.
- Strain over the crushed ice.
- Drizzle the crème de mûre over the top in a circular motion.
- Optionally garnish with a lemon slice and blackberries.
The story
Origins
ProbableA plausible account, without definitive proof.
The Bramble is the work of Dick Bradsell, a key figure in London's cocktail revival. By his own account he created it in the mid-1980s while bar manager at Fred's Club in Soho; other sources give 1984. He wanted a British drink and drew on childhood memories of blackberry picking on the Isle of Wight, starting from a French crème de mûre offered by an importer. His first attempt, served like a fruit martini, did not satisfy him; the final version went over crushed ice, simply because that was what the machine next door produced. In essence it is a gin sour with blackberry liqueur.
Taste profile
- Fruity
- 4 out of 5
- Sweet
- 3 out of 5
- Citrus
- 3 out of 5
- Sour
- 3 out of 5
