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Appease the Cheese

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (7)
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Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
1 1⁄2 fl oz Akashi-Tai Daiginjo Genshu sake
1 fl oz Oude genever
1⁄2 fl oz Italicus liqueur
1⁄6 fl oz Mexican corn whisky

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How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Italesse Presidente Wormwood

Method

  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.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
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Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 21.05% alc./vol. (42.1° proof)
  • 20 grams of pure alcohol

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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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Review

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

Cocktail of the day:

20th January 2026 is National Cheese Lovers Day

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Comments & Discussion

Pekka Savolainen
I really couldn’t taste sake or italicus. Just abasolo & genever.
score: 0
Richard Haylock
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
score: 1
Paloma Difford Verified User Premium Member
Hello Richard, no problem, that's been done. Best wishes, Paloma
score: 0
Richard Haylock
I do recognise one of the ingredients - never heard of the others. And where in Portugal could I possibly buy them?
score: 1
Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member
I believe the thewhiskyexchange.com ship to Portugal.
score: 0

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Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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