Name: Ink No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Vodka; 15 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 40 ml Cranberry juice

Ink No. 2
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Photographed in an UB Retro Coupe Gold 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₂ oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Muscle shell blue in colour. Vodka charged cranberry and orange in flavour.

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History:

Discovered in 2005 at Halo in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Nutrition:

One serving of Ink No. 2 contains 140 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
17.36% alc./vol. (17.36° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Annabelle Egginton

24th January at 18:42

Simple, smooth and sophisticated

David Hoyle

26th June 2022 at 18:52

I've made this following the recipe in the 15th Edition, so it's with the darker blue of the de Kuyper Curaçao. Part of the fun of experimenting with different cocktails and brands is the delight of the resultant colour. "Mussel purple" captures it well. The orange-cranberry flavour is very agreeable. If using unsweetened cranberry juice (as I did), add 5-10 mls sugar syrup to taste.

John Hinojos

14th July 2021 at 00:33

This is great. It is the colour I always imagined Elizabeth Taylor's eyes. Great balance, but you must use a good Blue Curacao, none of the nasty, cheap ones. Will do again.