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Thousand-year Highball

Add a touch of umami and extra depth to the classic gin fizz with an in-house sour plum syrup.

Thousand-year Highball
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Serves:

1

Ingredients

40ml Gordon’s London Dry Gin

4  dashes of Yuzu oil

20ml Sour plum syrup*

10ml Citric acid

50ml Soda to top up

4 Drops of umami bitters (garnish)

Equipment

1 Highball Glass

method

  1. Add the sour plum syrup, yuzu oil, citric acid and gin to the glass.

  2. Top up with a splash of soda.

  3. Garnish with 4 drops of umami bitters.

*Sour plum syrup (1:1) (Creates 5 servings of syrup)

  1. Add 50g of sugar to 50ml of filtered water and cook until it boils.

  2. Bring pan off the stove and add 12.5g sour plums in the liquid.

  3. Stir for 4 minutes and strain.