# Wibble

Dry gin and sloe gin share the base of a brisk grapefruit sour, while tiny measures of blackberry liqueur and sugar deepen the hedgerow fruit without turning it jammy.

Strength: 18% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 25 ml [Dry gin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/dry-gin.md) — Use a rounded Plymouth-style gin.
- 25 ml [Sloe gin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/sloe-gin.md)
- 25 ml [Fresh grapefruit juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-grapefruit-juice.md) — Use fresh pink grapefruit juice.
- 10 ml [Fresh lemon juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lemon-juice.md)
- 10 ml [Crème de mûre](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/creme-de-mure.md)
- 5 ml [Simple syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/simple-syrup.md)

## Glassware

Cocktail glass

## Garnish

- Lemon twist — Express the peel oils over the drink and insert the twist.

## Method

1. Shake all the ingredients hard with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled.
2. Fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

## Related drinks

- [Bramble](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bramble.md): Dick Bradsell's London gin sour, lengthened over crushed ice and streaked with dark blackberry liqueur.
- [Sloe Gin Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sloe-gin-fizz.md): A luminous ruby fizz that sharpens sweet-tart British sloe gin with fresh lemon and cold soda, leaving its fruit, kernel, and juniper character clear.
- [Red Lion](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-lion.md): Arthur Tarling’s competition-winning London sour surrounds dry gin and Cognac-based orange liqueur with equal flashes of lemon and orange.
- [Too Soon?](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/too-soon.md): A regal shake with thin orange slices gives this gin-and-Cynar sour fragrant peel oils and soft fruit depth without muddling bitterness into the drink.
- [White Lady](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/white-lady.md): A gin sour pairing fresh lemon with the orange sweetness of triple sec.
- [Blackthorn (English)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blackthorn-english.md): London dry gin and sloe gin turn a split-vermouth Martini into a dark-fruited, bitters-seasoned counterpart to the Irish Blackthorn.
- [Ideal Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ideal-cocktail.md): Fresh grapefruit and dry maraschino brighten a shaken gin-and-sweet-vermouth cocktail poised between the Martinez and the Bronx.
- [Gin Basil Smash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-basil-smash.md): Fresh basil is muddled through Jörg Meyer's bright 2008 gin sour, making vivid green aroma a structural ingredient.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/wibble
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/wibble-11b85893.webp
- Recipe source: https://sites.google.com/site/bourbongeorge/dick-bradsell?pli=1