Name: Chicago
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Cognac (brandy); 2.5 ml Orange Curaçao; 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 90 ml Brut sparkling wine

Chicago
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Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
²⁄₃ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
0.08 oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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Garnish: Orange juice and caster sugar rim

How to make:

STIR first 3 ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. TOP with sparkling wine.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A sugar-crusted rim replaces the sugar cube in the classic Champagne Cocktail with extra interest thanks to a splash of orange liqueur.

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Variant:

Brandy Crusta

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

CHICAGO COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Dash Curaçao.
2/3 Brandy.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Frost edge of glass with castor sugar and fill with Champagne.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Chicago contains 111 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
13.92% alc./vol. (13.92° proof)
15.7 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

8th July 2023 at 00:28

Very nice small cocktail. Perfect for an afternoon or early evening. The flavour of the cognac comes through, but there was just something that seem to give it a slight off flavour toward the end. Thinking it is the dry curacao. It is a bitter flavour, but more bitter orange than a spice bitter.

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