Name: Billionaire
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Whisk(e)y - Rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.); 20 ml Whisk(e)y - Bourbon whiskey; 30 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 10 ml Grenadine/pomegranate syrup; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 5 ml Absinthe verte (green); 2 Peychaud's / Creole bitters; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters; 2 Mint leaves

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in an

UB Retro Coupe Gold 7.75oz

Garnish:

Float dehydrated lemon slice wheel

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.)
2/3 fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Grenadine/pomegranate syrup (2:1)
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1/6 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
2 fresh	Mint leaves
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£ 26.95 £ 0.78 per cocktail, makes 34.5 Giffard Grenadine syrup, 70cl

£ 7.95 £ 0.11 per cocktail, makes 70 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 51.50 £ 0.37 per cocktail, makes 140.5 Peychaud's Aromatic Bitters, 8cl

£ 9.95 £ 0.50 per cocktail, makes 20

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Review:

Why have a Millionaire when you can stretch to a Billionaire? A suitably luxuriant whiskey sour with absinthe, aromatic bitters and mint.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2011 by Dushan Zarić and Jason Kosmas at Employees Only in Manhattan, New York City, USA. The original was quite different and was based on Wild Turkey Rare Breed Bourbon without the rye and (in place of absinthe, bitters and mint) called for Employee Only's housemade 'Absinthe Bitters', a blend of absinthe, Green Chartreuse, Peychaud's bitters, Angostura bitters and Fee Brothers Mint bitters.

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Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
20.89% alc./vol. (41.78° proof)
21.6 grams of pure alcohol

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