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Red Thorn

Name: Red Thorn
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 fresh Raspberries; 45 ml Irish whiskey; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 12.5 ml Raspberry syrup; 5 ml Lemon juice; 1.25 ml Chartreuse Green; 1 dash Absinthe

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Ingredients
5 fresh	Raspberries
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Irish whiskey
1 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
⁵⁄₁₂ fl oz	Monin Raspberry Syrup
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂₄ fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered raspberry.

Method

MUDDLE raspberries in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients.
SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered raspberry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19% alc./vol. (38° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created by bartender Takumi Watanabe. Takumi's original recipe doesn't use fresh raspberries, instead, he uses 15ml homemade raspberry syrup (made with 200ml fresh raspberry juice and 150ml sugar).

More cocktails by Takumi Watanabe

Review

A raspberry charged variation on the Blackthorn with faint Chartreuse herbal notes.

Jameson Irish Whiskey 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Monin Raspberry Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 59.5 cocktails
$14.99 $0.25 per cocktail Monin Raspberry Syrup (US) image

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 640 cocktails
$17.99 $0.03 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Florian Ruf Premium Member 51w

Made it with Rittenhouse Rye as suggested by the website. Definitely a very interesting cocktail. I suggest to use more lemon juice to balance it.

Bill Lennox 1y

I made the Takumi Watanabe version with fresh raspberry syrup. It is superb: light and fruity, but with lots of complexity. The whiskey and vermouth integrate well with the fruit juices to give a really interesting fresh drink.

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