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Liberal

Name: Liberal
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2.5 ml Amer Picon; 1 dash Orange bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Amer Picon
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

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Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Liberal contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
28.25% alc./vol. (56.49° proof)
22 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The first known recipe for a Liberal cocktail appears in George Kappeler's 1895 Modern American Drinks. Versions of the Liberal then appear in Thos. Stuart's 1904 Stuart' s Fancy Drinks And How To Mix Them; Jacques Straub's 1913 Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks; and Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days.

Liberal Cocktail.
Fill a mixing-glass half-full fine ice, add one dash syrup, half a jigger Amer Picon bitters, half a jigger whiskey. Mix, strain into cocktail glass. A small piece of lemon peel on top. Serve.
George J. Kappeler, 1930

Liberal Cocktail.
1/3 Pecon Bitters.
1/3 whiskey.
1/3 Italian vermouth.
3 0r 4 dashes absinthe.
Thos. Stuart, Nov. 1904

LIBERAL COCKTAIL.
1/3 Jigger Italian Vermouth.
2/3 Jigger Rye Whiskey.
1 Dash Amer Picon.
Stir.
Jacques Straub, 1913

LIBERAL
Dash of Orange Bitters
Three dashes Amer Picon
One-half Whiskey
One-half Italian Vermuth
Stir.
Albert Stevens Crockett, 1931

Review

Spirit-forward and best described as a Manhattan for libertarians, or indeed for anyone of any political persuasion seeking balance.

Variations/similar cocktails

Cuban Liberal

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Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 2y

A lovely drink. I think though it benefits from an orange zest twist as pictured as opposed to lemon called for in the recipe.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y