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Original Recipe No. 134 —

The Fencer

Gin Cocktails

The Lucien Gaudin is a clas­sic but obscure cock­tail that cel­e­brates the well dec­o­rat­ed French ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry fencer of the same name. You may notice it shares sim­i­lar­i­ties with the Negroni. Both fea­ture gin and Cam­pari. The Lucien Gaudin how­ev­er has the dis­tinct pres­ence of orange, both from the fla­vor with the Coin­treau and in aro­ma of the orange peel gar­nish. The Lucien Gaudin is a dry, crisp clas­sic that is light on its feet.

Lucian Gaudin

  • 1 oz gin
  • 1/2 oz Coin­treau
  • 1/2 oz Cam­pari 
  • 1/2 oz dry ver­mouth
  • Gar­nish with an orange twist

I’ve cre­at­ed a mod­ern twist on the clas­sic above that shifts the ori­en­ta­tion from orange to grape­fruit. With the craft brew scene gain­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty in the Unit­ed States I decid­ed to fea­ture a famil­iar fla­vor pro­file, the pair­ing of hops and grape­fruit. I made a grape­fruit hop syrup that gives this recipe a mag­nif­i­cent cit­rus and hop aro­ma. And I paired that with the cit­rusy qui­nine bite of Coc­chi Amer­i­cano.  I also like how the sub­tle Artemisia flower notes pair with the hops. Blue­coat Gin is my choice of gin here. Feel free to devi­ate. I chose it because its aro­ma and palette includes a lot of cit­rus.

The Fencer

  • 1 1/2 oz Blue­coat Gin
  • 3/4 oz Coc­chi Amer­i­cano 
  • 1/2 oz Cam­pari 
  • 1/2 oz grape­fruit hop syrup
  • 2 dash­es of Post Pro­hi­bi­tion Pick Me Up Bit­ters
  • Gar­nish with a grape­fruit twist

Stir all ingre­di­ents except the gar­nish with ice. Strain into chilled cock­tail glass. Gar­nish with the grape­fruit twist.

5 Notes on The Fencer

  1. The Post Pro­hi­bi­tion Pick Me Up Bit­ters recipe please 🙂

    Con­sid­er­ing how great your cit­rous bit­ters were, and how well the post about the was writ­ten, it would cer­tain­ly make for a great next blog entry.

    Best,

    Paul

  2. Hi,

    LOVE your site. Great recipes and inspir­ing fla­vors. I too have been dab­bling in home­brew­ing and left want­i­ng to do some­thing with the hops in cock­tails. Your grape­fruit hop syrup lit a fire and I came up with a vari­a­tion based on your vari­a­tion and mixed it up on TV for our local news sta­tion (http://buff.ly/ZhJqwy ). Thanks again for such inspi­ra­tional posts. Keep it up!

    Best,
    Greg
    @craftcocktails

  3. Not sure about the fla­vors in your Pick Me Up Bit­ters, but if mak­ing this with Bit­ter­mens ‘Ele­makule is wrong (I threw cau­tion to the wind, sue me), I don’t want to be right. Amaz­ing cock­tail.

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