Bought some cucumber syrup. It's full of artificial coloring and tartrazine and crap, and it tastes better and more crisp than homemade stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Eleven bucks a bottle if you know where to get it. Cocktail is a typical sour, 1 part lemon, 1 part cuke/St G, 2 parts gin (reserve your judgement, it's the only gin I had laying around)
3/5 pleasant, but too sweet. I ought to add more gin and a splash of soda water, but I will not.
Had me sold at gin & St. Germaine. Plus cucumber syrup? Sign me right up!
Only thing I'd change is look for a less piney gin (Boodles is awesome though!). I love that today we can get a whole variety of gins with vastly different flavor profiles.
Leopold Brothers has one that's citrusy, may work well here.
Now I'm off to find that cucumber syrup, what a summery drink that must be!
Hendricks has cucumber as one of its botanicals, and if you use 1/2 oz lime and simple syrup, a muddled cucumber and the stG with a dirty pour, you've got yourself a nice refresher... can even top with club soda or prosecco
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