Mountain Sipper

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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Bourbon whiskey
1⁄2 oz Cointreau triple sec liqueur
1⁄2 oz Cranberry juice (sweetened)
1⁄2 oz Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄12 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
  5. EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

Fruity citrus flavours balance the richness of the whiskey.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Mountain Sipper contains 169 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 20.87% alc./vol. (20.87° proof)
  • 19.3 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
12th October 2022 at 00:18
We found this outstanding. We did cut the sugar syrup by half and used a small batch California Bourbon at 90 proof. Our cranberry juice was organic and not as sweet as others. Found it nicely refreshing while the Bourbon flavour is still in for foreground.
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Jeremy Berg’s Avatar Jeremy Berg
7th April 2021 at 03:24
I made a version of this replacing the simple syrup with ~1/3 oz of Yes Cocktail's passionfruit syrup: https://yescocktailco.com/product/passionfruit-syrup/

Very drinkable!
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Kjell Eriksson’s Avatar Kjell Eriksson
18th October 2020 at 18:44
Slightly too sweet. I’ll cut out the sugar cane syrup next time, it might help.
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