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Yellow Bicycle Recipe

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Yellow Bicycle
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: Under 5 mins | Active Time: | Makes: 1 drink

Deep in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin is the creative bar Rye. On a trip there, our art team fell in love with this cocktail—perhaps because they’re bike people. But no matter the reason, they were on to something when they told us to get the recipe.

INGREDIENTS
  • Ice
  • 1/2 ounce St-Germain elderflower liqueur
  • 1/2 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
  • 4 ounces Prosecco or cava
  • Lemon zest, for garnish (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice, then add St-Germain and Chartreuse and stir until well chilled.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass and top with Prosecco or cava. Garnish with lemon zest, if using.
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COMMENT

  • I'm with Olav23, St. Germain's way played out.

  • I want to meet the marketing guys behind this St-Germain stuff! It's showing up in everything. Can I be the first to declare Elderflower cocktails as the "sundried tomatoes" of the 2000s?

    Besides, go to chinatown and get a $5 bottle of Lychee liqueur, has the same effect.

  • The Beehive here in Boston makes a similar drink (subbing in lemon juice for the zest) called the Yellow Jacket:
    http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2009/01/yellow-jacket.html

    The bicycle part probably refers to the legend and lore of St. Germain about how the elder flowers are carted down the mountain on bicycles, and has been worked into the names of other St. Germain cocktails such as La...+READ

    The Beehive here in Boston makes a similar drink (subbing in lemon juice for the zest) called the Yellow Jacket:
    http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2009/01/yellow-jacket.html

    The bicycle part probably refers to the legend and lore of St. Germain about how the elder flowers are carted down the mountain on bicycles, and has been worked into the names of other St. Germain cocktails such as La Bicyclette.-COLLAPSE

  • I'm gonna have to sub le Vert, aussi, but I know this is going to be splendid!

  • May have to make a Green Bicycle tonight... don't have the yellow Chartreuse, but this looks sublime.