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Silver Bullet

Name: Silver Bullet
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 20 ml Kummel liqueur; 10 ml Lemon juice

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ fl oz	Kummel liqueur
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glass

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Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA 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.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Silver Bullet contains 157 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
25.63% alc./vol. (51.25° proof)
20.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

Thought to have been created in the 1920s.

Review

If you like Aviations then this caraway-influenced sour may appeal. It's powerfully flavoured, so also consider serving over ice to allow dilution to tame the flavours.

Variations/similar cocktails

A modern variation is to substitute sambuca for kümmel.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Cassandra Adams Premium Member 1y

I enjoyed the kummel at the level specified, and the after-taste of caraway and gin herbals. My partner thought about increasing the lemon next time, but not at the expense of the kummel.

Cassandra Adams Premium Member 41w

Tried this again with 20 ml lemon and enjoyed it even more. Helped to balance the Kummel sweetness in our opinion.

Benjamin McCabe 5y

After experimenting I liked this drink much better after swapping the proportions of the lemon juice and kummel, plus added 1/3 oz simple syrup. May depend on your brands of gin and kummel; I was using Tanqueray Gin and Doppelt Kummel Extra, and found the kummel overpowering before my modifications.

Erik Lindgren 2y

Agree. I found the kümmel to be overly dominant otherwise. Was using homemade kümmel and beefeater. Quite nice with the modifications.

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