Closed-Loop Gimlet Recipe

The closed-loop gimlet is a tasty sour recipe from bartender riley dexter brown, who named it in honor of the closed loop trend that encourages less waste and creative re-use of ingredients in this case, reflecting the peels used in oleo saccharum that would have otherwise gone to waste. Its not really a gimlet, but we can ignore that artistic liberty; the candy-orange flavor is so divine, wed drink it by any name. Brown calls for orange-peel oleo saccharum specifically, but we made it with our usual house lemon-orange syrup, and it was divine. The original recipe called for the drink to be served up, in a coupe glass, but we found that it was a bit too large for most glasses of that type. Its also fairly sweet, and benefits from ice in the glass so it was a no-brainer to serve it in an ice-filled short glass instead.