Name: The Vervet
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Gin - Monkey 47; 10 ml Crème de cacao liqueur (white); 15 ml Lillet Blanc (or other aromatized wine); 7.5 ml Crème de banane liqueur; 5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 2.5 ml Coffee liqueur

Serve in a

Nick & Nora glass

Garnish:

Float single coffee bean

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass. Carefully POUR coffee liqueur into centre of the cocktail (it should sink to create a dark layer at the bottom of the cocktail).

5/6 fl oz	Monkey 47 gin
1/3 fl oz	Dutch Cacao white crème de cacao
1/2 fl oz	Lillet Blanc (or other aromatized wine)
1/4 fl oz	Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur
1/6 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/12 fl oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
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Monkey 47 gin, 50cl

£ 40.75 £ 2.04 per cocktail, makes 20 Monkey 47 gin, 50cl

£ 9.96 £ 0.50 per cocktail, makes 20 Lillet Blanc, 75cl

£ 18.25 £ 0.37 per cocktail, makes 50 Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur, 70cl

£ 19.95 £ 0.21 per cocktail, makes 93 Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur, 50cl

£ 24.75 £ 0.12 per cocktail, makes 200.5

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History:

The Vervet is a species of monkey with a white body and a black head and this served as an inspiration for this layered, faintly coffee and banana influenced riff on a 20th Century cocktail. Fittingly, this cocktail finishes with enlivening coffee.

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Nutrition:

One serving of The Vervet contains 80 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
24.07% alc./vol. (48.14° proof)
15.6 grams of pure alcohol

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