Appease the Cheese

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Photographed in an Italesse Presidente Wormwood

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Akashi-Tai Daiginjo Genshu sake
1 oz Oude genever
1⁄2 oz Italicus liqueur
1⁄6 oz Mexican corn whisky
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of blue cheese stuffed pitted Fragata Green Olive.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 5/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Cocktail of the day:

20th January 2025 is National Cheese Lovers Day

Review:

Delicately savoury with corn and bergamot, a relatively low alcohol, aromatic, aperitivo.

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History:

Created in June 2022 by yours truly at the Clocktower in Rye, England. The name, from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide, references this cocktail's delicate style and cheese-stuffed garnish.

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Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 20.55% alc./vol. (20.55° proof)
  • 19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Pekka Savolainen’s Avatar Pekka Savolainen
17th May 2023 at 16:42
I really couldn’t taste sake or italicus. Just abasolo & genever.
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Richard Haylock’s Avatar Richard Haylock
25th June 2022 at 18:55
Having explored the price of the ingredients of !Appease the Cheese" I am forced to conclude that your site is only for people with much fatter wallets than mine.

A single bottle of each component would cost me £112 in total from thewhiskyexchange.com and that's excluding shipping.

Appease the Cheese sounds wonderful, but please unsubscribe me from your online shop. I'm going green with jealousy as I write!

Best wishes
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Paloma Difford’s Avatar Paloma Difford
25th June 2022 at 19:52
Hello Richard, no problem, that's been done. Best wishes, Paloma
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Richard Haylock’s Avatar Richard Haylock
24th June 2022 at 17:45
I do recognise one of the ingredients - never heard of the others. And where in Portugal could I possibly buy them?
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
25th June 2022 at 15:25
I believe the thewhiskyexchange.com ship to Portugal.
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