Name: Fernandito
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Fernet liqueur; 105 ml Cola

Fernandito
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Photographed in a Modern America Double Old Fashioned

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
3 ¹⁄₂ oz	Cola (e.g. Coca-Cola or Pepsi)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Double old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
POUR all ingredients into ice-filled glass.
Briefly STIR.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

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AKA: Fernet con coca, Fernuco, Fernacho, Ferloncho, Fercola, Fefi, Fernando

Variant:

Fernet con Coca

History:

Very popular in Argentina where the combination of fernet & Coke is as much a staple as the G&T is in England. The drink is most identified with the Argentinian province of Córdoba, where legend has it that a bartender by the name of Oscar "el Negro" Becerra mixed and served the Fernandito in the 1970s, although others say it dates from the 1950s.

Realising the Fernandito's growing popularity, in the 1990s, Fratelli Branca and the Coca-Cola Company launched a joint national advertising campaign in Argentina to help drive the drink's popularity.

Nutrition:

One serving of Fernandito contains 141 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
9.21% alc./vol. (9.21° proof)
13.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Max Langer

3rd October 2024 at 16:54

Are the proportions enough to merit a separate recipe, or is this a double of Fernet con Coca? Surprisingly delicious by the way.

Simon Difford

3rd October 2024 at 18:00

So good we named it twice! I've added links between the two.

Matt

1st September 2024 at 00:01

I really like this - I generally like the impact that Fernet brings to a cocktail. In this case, the Fernet still dominates (even though I use a 4:1 ratio) - but I really like how the cola dilutes the Fernet enabling you to taste some of the flavor notes a bit better. The strength of the Fernet still encourages you to sip slowly and gradually savor the cocktail - a nice drink to nurse.

Asher Günther

9th December 2023 at 04:38

With how much I've heard this drink raved about I was pretty disappointed. Eyeballed the coke but ended up adding a bunch more, maybe 4 or 5 parts to 1 part Fernet. Ended up adding some Angostura and a healthy squirt of saline which improved it a little but still... bleh

Boris Jümmers

21st October 2023 at 16:49

I was really pleasantly suprised by this. Think of it as a herbal, minty, not too sweet coke with a little oomph. Liked it a lot.

More than any other Cola + X drinks.