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Barnum Was Right

Name: Barnum Was Right
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Chilled water; 3 dash Aromatic bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (21)

Measurements in:

Serves:

Keep screen awake

Ingredients
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s (optional)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Barnum Was Right contains 200 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
22.11% alc./vol. (44.23° proof)
26.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

Named for Barnum Was Right, a 1929 American comedy film released with sounds and also as a silent version for theatres not wired for sound. Only the silent version serves.

Adapted from a recipe in Crosby Gaige's 1941 Crosby Gaige's Cocktail Guide & Ladies' Companion.

Barnum Was Right
⅔ jigger Dry Gin
⅓ jiger Apricot Brandy
Dash Lime Juice or Lemon
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Shake well with cracked ice and strain into cocktail glass.
Crosby Gaige, Crosby Gaige's Cocktail Guide & Ladies' Companion, 1941

Review

A gin apricot sour balanced and favoured with generous dashes of aromatic bitters.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.72 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$29.99 $1.20 per cocktail

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 128 cocktails
$13.99 $0.11 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$4.03 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Egg McKenzie 1y

it's ok

Gillian Williams 2y

Just a touch on the sweet side but very smooth and quite classic

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