Blueberry Clover Club co*cktail Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What can I use instead of raspberry syrup in Clover Club? ›

We love the fresh raspberry flavor in homemade syrup, but for a simpler preparation, you can substitute grenadine or pre-bottled raspberry syrup which can be purchased at most liquor and grocery stores.

The drink rapidly declined in popularity. In The Gun Club Drink Book, by Charles Browne, published in 1939, he panned the once popular drink. "A clover club co*cktail is a Philadelphia concoction, maybe one of the jokes indulged in at the Clover Club. It's an awful mixture.

This drink is a sublime mixture of gin, lemon, raspberry syrup and egg whites that makes for a sweet and creamy raspberry flavoured co*cktail. If you're planning a bar hire and want to feature great classic co*cktails or gin drinks, the Clover Club could be a fantastic addition to your menu.

An abridged, inebriated history:

The Clover Club pre-dates Prohibition and takes its name from the Philadelphia men's club with which it shares a name. It was something of an old boys club, established by lawyers and bankers in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the 1880s.

Under a section marked “inventory updates,” the memo details that “raspberry syrup will be discontinued by the end of March to make room for new innovations, like developing new syrup flavors.” We reached out to Starbucks for comment on the menu change and a spokesperson confirmed the news.

Notes: Grenadine and raspberry syrup can often be used as substitutes for one another in co*cktails, but there are classic recipes that call for raspberry syrup preferentially (most famously the Clover Club). As with the grenadine recipe, you can also use this one to make syrups out of other fruits.

CLOVER CLUB co*ckTAIL WITH CHAMBORD

If raspberries aren't in season where you live or you simply don't want to go through the trouble of making raspberry syrup, you can use Chambord in place of raspberry syrup.

Since cowhands just needed something to dull their nerves, “whiskey” was the drink of choice. Why was whiskey the preferred drink of the Wild West?

Just combine your favorite dry vermouth with fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, and some muddled orange. Think of it as a nice change from your standard mimosa.

Julie Reiner is the co-owner of world-renowned co*cktail bars, Clover Club and Leyenda in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and the author of The Craft co*cktail Party: Delicious Drinks for Every Occasion.

Does a Clover Club have vermouth? ›

But I think it is the addition of dry vermouth which it's soft wine notes, is what bestows the Clover Club with its particular brand of magic, elevating it from very goodness, to true greatness.

The city claims to have invented two, maybe three classic co*cktails — the Clover Club, the Fish House Punch, and (arguably) the Brandy Alexander.

If you're looking for a simple syrup substitute, there are three favorites you probably have right in your home: honey, maple syrup and agave. For honey or agave, add warm water to them, to help turn the mix to syrup.

Grenadine is often used interchangeably with raspberry, cherry, and strawberry syrups — you'll even see this in many co*cktail recipes — but each of those is very much its own thing, with a distinctive flavor profile and uses.

Substitute an equal amount of raspberry brandy, raspberry syrup (such as the Torani brand) or any other brand of raspberry or black-raspberry liqueur (such as Chambord).