Name: Golden Glow
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Scotch whisky; 20 ml Galliano liqueur; 20 ml Honey herbal liqueur; 20 ml Chilled water

Golden Glow
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Blended Scotch whisky
²⁄₃ oz	Galliano L'Autentico liqueur
²⁄₃ oz	Honey herbal liqueur (e.g. Drambuie)
²⁄₃ oz	Chilled water reduce if wet ice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

The original may have been equal parts gin, 30 Galliano and 30 Drambuie but Scotch whisky sits more harmoniously as the base spirit, so harmoniously that I've added a splash more of it.

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Variant:

Golden Glow No.2

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

GOLDEN GLOW
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1oz Galliano
1oz Drambuie
1oz Gin

Variation

¼ oz grenadine in bottom of glass
½ tsp sugar
1-½ oz Bourbon
½ oz rum
1 oz orange juice
½ oz Lemon juice
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Golden Glow contains 198 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
24.9% alc./vol. (24.9° proof)
22.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Yorey C

6th February 2024 at 09:06

Kirkland Blended Scotch ... interesting combo of flavors and galliano always stands out. didnt care for it though. cloying. not much character other than the usual flavor bomb from galliano. might try with laphroiag or some scotch with more backbone

Angela Knox

24th September 2023 at 01:57

I enjoyed this, but it is very sweet even for my taste and I love sweet cocktails. It needs lots of ice to tone it down. I’d be tempted to lower the amounts of Drambuie and Galliano

Amber Morgan

17th March 2023 at 22:53

This was really flat to me. The flavor is nice but very one-note, not something you feel compelled to go back to.

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