Name: Moravian Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Slivovitz plum brandy; 22.5 ml Becherovka liqueur; 45 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth

Moravian Cocktail
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Glass:

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ fl oz	Slivovitz plum brandy
³⁄₄ fl oz	Becherovka liqueur
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered orange slice wheel and cherry (sail).

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry sail.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Review:

The hardcore, Czech answer to the Italian Negroni. A cocktail for those who have acquired a taste for Becherovka.

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History:

Discovered in 2005 at Be Bop Bar in Prague, Czech Republic.

Nutrition:

One serving of Moravian Cocktail contains 180 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
21.65% alc./vol. (43.31° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Vaclav Alex Kyslik

22nd February at 23:28

Pretty decent cocktail, I found that a dash of orange bitters really helps round out the sharp edges of the Slivovitz and Becherovka. I also like finishing it with an expressed orange peel, or even just a dropped slice to brighten the aromatics.

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RCs

8th December 2025 at 19:23

I was introcuded to this cocktail in the Be-Bop bar in 2001 by its head barman, Alex. He told me that he was (or had been - I forger) head of the Czech bartenders association and that the drink was his own invention. However I'm pretty sure he called it the Moravian Cockerel. He wrote down the recipe for me - exactly the same as the one given here.

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Kjell Eriksson

3rd February 2022 at 16:54

I totally agree with Mr Charnock, five star.

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Doug Charnock

3rd November 2020 at 00:55

Complex flavors that don’t just rely on bitterness as much as a Negroni. Great change of pace from the usual flavor profiles. More secret herbs and spices than KFC, with cloves and cinnamon at the fore.

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