July 14-Clover Club

The Clover Club is not just a brilliant drink like all we have spoken about this summer, it is also the name of a brilliant bar by Julie Reiner. The Clover Club cocktail actually came way before Reiner’s bar as it is a cocktail from the 1880s that was created for a gentlemen’s club that met in Philly from 1880-1920. The reason this cocktail has raspberry is because of the power colour of the time. The power colour now is red but back in the 1880s it was considered pink. The raspberry was the perfect fruit to give this cocktail a pink colour for power.

While most Clover CLubs nowadays are just sours with raspberry muddled in or raspberry syrup, The original included dry vermouth in it. That’s the way I am showing you now. Admittedly this is an adapted recipe for myself since I love raspberry ever since I was a kid so I muddled in raspberry and used raspberry syrup. In my opinion the results speak for themselves and I urge you to try it despite it not being traditional.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H3kS7fzkeJE0b8eqfNlNTm5Vn__CJErFCpUy2o7T33k/edit?tab=t.0