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Right Charlie

Name: Right Charlie
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Apricot liqueur; 22.5 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Chilled water

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (20)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water

How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered tinned apricot half.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Right Charlie contains 103 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
11.95% alc./vol. (23.91° proof)
9.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created thanks to a comment by Brandon John, a Discerning Drinker on our Charlie Chaplin cocktail page saying, "Some joints make this with lemon, which I prefer. The lime tends to overpower it a bit." A Charlie Chaplin should be made with lime, at least according the recipe first specified in Albert Stevens Crockett's 1935 The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. However, it could very well be the best or "right" way to make a Charlie Chaplin, so a Right Charlie.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN
One-third Lime Juice
One-third Sloe Gin
One-third Apricot Brandy
Albert Stevens Crockett, 1935

Review

Depending on how sweet or tart your sloe gin is, you may want to add 5ml (1/6oz) sugar syrup.

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$29.99 $0.91 per cocktail

Hayman's Sloe Gin 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$34.99 $1.06 per cocktail Hayman's Sloe Gin image

$1.97 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 33 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Ian T 2y

Substituted peach liqueur for the apricot one specified with great results.

Jack Reid 2y

Luxardo Albicocca & Hayman's. Made this and the Charlie Chaplin. This tasted slightly sweeter and the gin wasn't as prominent. My wife preferred the Charlie Chaplin but I prefer this version. Either way, they are both very good drinks.

Jeremy Harrold 3y

I used Mulberry gin which wasn’t particularly sweet but I left the recipe as it was and found it just the right side of sharp.

Brandon John 4y

First time I've ever been referred to as a discerning anything, I think. Cheers Simon!

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