French 75 Cocktail (IBA)

French 75 (IBA)

Method :

Shake all ingredients except champagne with ice , strain into glass and top with champagne . Garnish is an immersed Opies cherry ..

Ingredients :

30 mls : Gin
60 mls : Champagne
2.0 dsh : Rich sugar syrup (2 parts sugar : 1 part water)
15 mls : Freshly squeezed lemon juice

Instructions :

To make a French 75 cocktail :

1. Pour all the ingredients, except champagne, into a shaker.
2. Shake.
3. Strain into a champagne flute.
4. Top up with champagne.
5. Stir gently.

Enjoy your French 75 !

The champagne portion is considerable, so it has to be something you would enjoy drinking on its own. Sweetness would not be a good thing in this drink, so a brut is a good choice. (Alternatives like proseccos would likely be too bright, and too sweet for the French 75.) The idea is to put a little sparkle into the underlying gin sour; don’t stint on the gin and lemon, or the drink will seem lifeless, stuck between a watered-down gin sour and sullied champagne.