Name: Prophet in Plain Clothes
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Whisk(e)y - Peated whisk(e)y; 30 ml Fernet liqueur; 30 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino); 15 ml Amaro (e.g. Montenegro); 3 Saline solution 4:1

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

Modern America Coupe

Garnish:

Skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Caisteal Chamuis peated scotch whisky
1 fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1/2 fl oz	Amaro (e.g. Montenegro)
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Amaro (e.g. Montenegro) – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2021 by Kraig Rovensky, general manager at Life on Mars in Seattle, Washington, USA. The original recipe calls for Laphroaig 10-year single malt and Amaro Cinpatrazzo.

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
25.29% alc./vol. (50.58° proof)
26.6 grams of pure alcohol

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