Bright, tart and bracing, it sets London dry gin, lemon and sugar over a mound of crushed ice, then crowns it with a circling drizzle of crème de mûre that bleeds down through the ice like jam through snow. The blackberry liqueur sweetens and stains the glass as you sip, carrying it from sharp citrus to deep, jammy fruit.
Garnish: Blackberry, Lemon Wheel
Shaken · Rocks · Crushed
add
Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker — everything except the crème de mûre.
shake
Shake well with ice until cold.
strain
Strain into a chilled old fashioned glass packed with crushed ice.
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Pour the crème de mûre over the top of the drink in a circular motion so it bleeds down through the crushed ice.
garnish
Garnish with a blackberry and a lemon wheel.
The Bramble is the work of British barman Dick Bradsell, who devised it in 1984 at Fred's Club in Soho, London. He was after a drink that tasted like the blackberry picking of his boyhood on the Isle of Wight. It has since been adopted by the International Bartenders Association as one of its official New Era Drinks, and it stands with the Espresso Martini and Russian Spring Punch among the modern creations credited to Bradsell, who died in 2016.