Bramble (cocktail)

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Bramble with a high fruit content
"Float" of the blackberry liqueur on the cocktail over crushed ice

The Bramble ( English for blackberry ) is a cocktail made from gin , lemon juice, sugar syrup and the blackberry liqueur that gives it its name. He is shaken on ice cubes and then in a Fashioned Glass Old- on crushed ice (crushed ice) served, decorated with a slice of lemon and a fresh blackberry. The cocktail belongs to the sours , whereby the components typical for this drink group ( spirits , citrus juice, sugar) are expanded here to include the liqueur .

history

In addition to the Espresso Martini , the Bramble is probably the most famous drink of the British bartender Dick Bradsell (1959–2016) and was created in 1984 at Fred's Club in the London borough of Soho . In an interview in 2011, Bradsell stated that he had assumed that he had a Singapore Sling and that his version of gin, lemon, sugar and soda water  - served in a tall glass and then floated with crème de mûre (blackberry liqueur ) and Bénédictine - was simply simplified in one prepared a smaller glass and turned the bramble into a "British drink" with British ingredients (except for the lemon).

The drink started its triumphant advance in England, where it was soon no longer missing on any menu, quickly continued in the USA and, thanks to the ongoing gin boom, can also be found on more and more German bar menus.

In 2011, the International Bartenders Association (IBA) added the Bramble to its list of official IBA cocktails and listed it as an "all day cocktail" (cocktail for every time of day) in the New Era Drinks category (for example, drinks of the new age).

preparation

There are different recipes, but the preparation is the same for all of them: Gin , freshly squeezed lemon juice and sugar syrup are shaken with a few ice cubes in a cocktail shaker and served over fresh crushed ice in an old-fashioned glass , topped with crème de mûre (blackberry liqueur ) given ("floated") and decorated with a lemon wedge and a fresh blackberry. The International Bartenders Association specifies the quantities as 4  cl gin, 1 cl sugar syrup and 1.5 cl lemon juice and blackberry liqueur each. Dick Bradsell mixed the drink in his interview with 2 shots (about 6 cl) of gin, 25 ml of lemon juice, 2 bar spoons of sugar syrup and an unspecified amount of blackberry liqueur  . Based on this, the Mixology magazine names the recipe “5 cl dry gin, 3 cl fresh lemon juice, 1.5 cl sugar syrup and 1 cl crème de mûre (blackberry liqueur, alternatively Chambord )”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dick Bradsell obituary. In: The Guardian . Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Marco Beier: Facts: The top 6 modern gin drinks. In: Mixology magazine for bar culture. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b YouTube: Dick Bradsell and his Bramble. In: Interview from 2011. Retrieved on August 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ Gary Regan: The Cocktailian: Treacle. In: imbibe magazine. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Jeffrey Morgenthaler: Mixology Monday: The Bramble. In: blog. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Fröhlich: Gin boom: How German distillers make England look old. In: Stern (weekly magazine). March 28, 2014, accessed August 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c IBA Official Cocktails. In: International Bartenders Association Official Cocktails. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .