Reality Check

While we love a cold craft brew in our Hybrid Pint Glass, we also love the opportunity to shake up a delicious beer cocktail.

Created in 2013 by Simone Caporale at The Langham Hotel's Artesian Bar in London, the Reality Check is a refreshing summer beverage featuring fresh muddled raspberries and a combination of ingredients that give it a unique herbal complexity.

If you don't have a bottle of Becherovka on hand – a Czech liqueur made with 20+ secret botanicals – you can sub in a similar bitter and herbaceous liqueur like Peychaud's, Bénédictine or Green Chartreuse.

Maybe Reality Czech would be a more fitting name. Either way, it's tasty.

(Originally published 8/2/24)

Author

The Elevated Craft Team

Category

Cocktails

Ingredients

• ¾ oz. Vodka
• ¾ oz. Becherovka Liqueur
• ¼ oz. Lime Juice
• 2 ¾ oz. Pilsner
• 2 tsp. Rich Simple Syrup
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters
• 5 Fresh Raspberries

Directions

1. Muddle raspberries in the base of the Hybrid Cocktail Shaker.
2. Add ice and all other ingredients except beer and shake vigorously for 15 seconds.
3. Pour contents into a Hybrid Pint Glass through a fine-mesh strainer.
4. Top with pilsner and garnish with lime and raspberries.