Name: Sweet Science
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Whisk(e)y - Scotch whisky (blended); 15 ml Drambuie liqueur; 45 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 1 Orange bitters; 2 Saline solution 4:1

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

Retro Coupe

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

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

1 1/2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1/2 fl oz	Drambuie liqueur
1 1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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Herbal Scotch and orange.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 1981 by Charles Schumann in Munich, Germany.

SWEET SCIENCE (1981)
1½ oz orange juice
¼–¾ oz Drambuie
1½ oz Scotch
Shake well over ice cubes in a shaker, strain into a cocktail glass.
Charles Schumann, American Bar, 1995

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Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.81% alc./vol. (33.62° proof)
17.7 grams of pure alcohol

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