Clover Club Shot
Gin, raspberry, and lemon in a shooter — the pre-Prohibition Clover Club (documented 1909) revived by Julie Reiner's Brooklyn bar of the same name in 2007.
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The original Clover Club is one of America's great pre-Prohibition cocktails, named after a prestigious men's literary and social club that met at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia from the 1880s through the early 20th century. The drink — gin, lemon juice, raspberry syrup, and egg white — appeared in print as early as 1909 and was documented by Hugo Ensslin in his 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks. It faded after Prohibition decimated American cocktail culture but was revived by the modern craft cocktail movement, most notably through Julie Reiner's bar of the same name in Brooklyn, which opened in 2007. The Clover Club Shot compresses this classic into shooter format, delivering gin's botanical character alongside bright raspberry and citrus in a single pour — a respectful nod to a cocktail that predates Prohibition by decades.
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