Color-Changing Butterfly Pea Gin Sour
Butterfly pea flower–infused gin starts deep indigo and shifts to violet-pink as lemon juice hits it — the Instagram-breaking color-shift cocktail of 2021–2023.
Served in a Coupe glass · Garnish: Lemon wheel · Difficulty: medium
Ingredients
- 2 oz Butterfly Pea Flower–Infused Gin
- 0.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
- 0.75 oz Simple Syrup
- 1 piece Egg White
Instructions
- To infuse: steep 1 tbsp dried butterfly pea flowers in gin for 1 hour, strain. Gin will be deep blue.
- Dry shake all ingredients without ice for 15 seconds — watch the color start to shift.
- Add ice and shake hard for 15 seconds.
- Double strain into a chilled coupe.
- The cocktail will be vivid purple-violet. Garnish with a lemon wheel.