Clover Club cocktail
Sour · Anytime · Summer

Clover Club

Raspberry syrup, lemon and egg white shaken hard with gin until it foams pink. Fruity, tart, and far older than its colour suggests.

Base
Gin
Glass
Coupe glass
Method
Shake
Strength
14.2% ABV

Ingredients

  • 45 mlGin1 swap
    Any London dry ginhigh

    Depends on the brand’s botanicals

  • 15 mlRaspberry Syrup
  • 15 mlFresh Lemon Juice1 swap
    Fresh lime juicemedium

    A touch sharper

  • few dropsEgg White

How to make

Technique
Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

  1. Pour all ingredients into cocktails shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Serve

Glass
Coupe glassAlso fine: Martini glass, Nick & Nora glass
Garnish
Fresh raspberries.Float two or three; more than that and they sink into the ice.

Taste & nutrition

14.2%ABV
178kcal
1.05Drinks
StrengthMedium
Sweet to dryDry

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

  • Dry-shake without ice first to build the foam, then shake again with ice.
  • Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year1900s
PlacePhiladelphia, USA
Created byThe Clover Club (Bellevue-Stratford Hotel)

This pink, frothy pre-Prohibition drink of gin, lemon, raspberry and egg white takes its name from a Philadelphia gentlemen's club that met at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Journalists, lawyers and bankers gathered there from the 1880s, and the cocktail was first noted around 1901. Long dismissed as old-fashioned, it was rediscovered during the craft cocktail revival. Its silky texture and berry note keep it a favourite.

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