Name: Black Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 7 fresh Blackberries; 15 ml Aniseed liqueur; 45 ml Vodka; 15 ml Blackberry liqueur; 30 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Vanilla sugar syrup; 22.5 ml Chilled water

Black Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
7 fresh	Blackberries
¹⁄₂ oz	Aniseed (anise) liqueur
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₂ oz	Giffard Crème de Mûre liqueur
1 oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Vanilla Syrup
³⁄₄ oz	Chilled water reduce if wet ice

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Garnish: Blackberries on stick

How to make:

MUDDLE berries in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Review:

The Pernod & Black of the 1980s revisited. Anis liqueur enhances the rich, tart flavours of blackberry.

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History:

Created in 2003 by yours truly, London, England.

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Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
14.65% alc./vol. (14.65° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

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jason keane

24th October 2024 at 04:57

This also works just as well with white rum…

jason keane

19th October 2024 at 06:52

This is very good- better than 3.5 stars! I’ve made it a few times now and it’s better if berries muddled first; and if you are one of those people who doesn’t like too strong an aniseed flavour- don’t worry. It’s quite subtle; and you can always add a bit more vanilla syrup.

Simon Difford

19th October 2024 at 07:39

Agreed. Better is berries are muddled first. This is now stipulated above. Many thanks.

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Stephen Murray

30th August 2023 at 21:33

Forgot to add made this with my own Creme de Mure.

Stephen Murray

30th August 2023 at 21:31

This gave me a Proustian rush to scruffier days drinking Pernod and black in cheep bars then dancing off the sugar rush in the local night club. The same flavor profile but more sophisticated and luscious.

Herbert Brant

18th December 2022 at 21:00

Amazing cocktail! I questioned the wisdom of the Pernod in a berry-flavoured cocktail, but I should not have second-guessed you. It adds such an unexpected -—and exquisite!— flavor. Added to favorites.

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