Bicycle Thief Cocktail Recipe

Modern New-York cocktail created in the late 2000s by bartenders Zachary Gelnaw-Rubin and Abraham Hawkins at Dutch Kills, inspired by the 1948 Italian film Bicycle Thieves. It’s a bright, bittersweet, citrus-forward aperitif-style cocktail.

Ingredients

  • 1 oz Gin
  • 1 oz Campari
  • 0.5 oz Lemon Juice
  • 0.5 oz Simple Syrup
  • 1.5 oz Grapefruit Juice
  • 3 oz Soda Water

Method for creating a Bicycle Thief cocktail

Shake ingredients and strain into a highball glass with ice

Garnish

Grapefruit slice

Glassware

Highball

Ice

Regular Ice

Nutrition Information for Bicycle Thief

  • Calories: There are 175 kcal in Bicycle Thief
  • ABV: Bicycle Thief has an ABV of 9%

Calorie Breakdown for Bicycle Thief

IngredientDoseCal/ozCalories
Gin1 oz70 cal/oz70 kcal
Campari1 oz60 cal/oz60 kcal
Lemon Juice0.5 oz6 cal/oz3 kcal
Simple Syrup0.5 oz60 cal/oz30 kcal
Grapefruit Juice1.5 oz8 cal/oz12 kcal
Total175 kcal

ABV Breakdown for Bicycle Thief

Cocktail booziness measures the amount of alcohol in a drink, expressed both as total alcohol volume (ml) and as a percentage of Alcohol By Volume (ABV) of the overall drink size.

IngredientDoseABV%Alcohol (ml)
Gin1 oz40%12.0 ml
Campari1 oz24%7.2 ml
Total alcohol19.0 ml
Cocktail size222 ml
ABV = 19 / 222 × 1009%

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