The Vervet

Name: The Vervet
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Gin; 10 ml White crème de cacao; 15 ml Aromatized wine; 7.5 ml Banana liqueur; 5 ml Lemon juice; 2.5 ml Coffee liqueur

Difford’s Guide

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Ingredients
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
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

Garnish: Float single coffee bean

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Method:

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).

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of The Vervet contains 136 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
20.34% alc./vol. (40.68° proof)
14.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

The Vervet is a species of monkey with a white body and a black head and is the inspiration for this layered, faintly coffee and banana-influenced riff on a 20th Century cocktail. Fittingly, this cocktail finishes with enlivening coffee. Originally based on Monkey 47 Gin.

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