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Cherry Bomb No. 2

Name: Cherry Bomb No. 2
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 55ml Blanco tequila; 5 ml Amaro (e.g. Montenegro); 5 ml Acqua Bianca liqueur; 5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 5 ml Cherry brandy; 2 dash Spiced choc. bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Blanco tequila
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Amaro Montenegro
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Acqua Bianca liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Cherry (brandy) liqueur
2 dash	Spiced chocolate bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry and green olive.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry and green olive.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cherry Bomb No. 2 contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
27.32% alc./vol. (54.64° proof)
20.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Amaro (e.g. Montenegro) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2022 by Kat "The Queen of Tequila" Stanley Whyte of the The American Bar at The Savoy in London, England.

Review

A wonderfully complex Cherry Old Fashioned. Kat's original recipe calls for an Acerola cherry juice sugar syrup (1:1) which arguably has more of an apricot than cherry taste. Ideally, you'd make this syrup to make the cocktail but I found cherry brandy (or even equal parts cherry and apricot brandy liqueurs) work well as an alternative, and produce a more radiant cocktail (as photographed).

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Nikolaus Linder Premium Member 22w

One of my favorites, for the reasons mentioned by Herbert below. Tonight, I smoked the ingredients with cherry wood in the mixing glass before stirring. Try it!

Herbert Brant 2y

Rich, flavourful and strong. [Just the kind of cocktail I enjoy!] The tequila, amaro, cherry, mint, and chocolate make quite an impression. This cocktail offers a lot to mull over and savour.

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