Name: Tailor Made
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Bourbon whiskey; 7.5 ml Falernum liqueur; 25 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 25 ml Cranberry juice; 5 ml Honey and water syrup

Tailor Made
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₄ oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
⁵⁄₆ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
⁵⁄₆ oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)
¹⁄₆ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

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Review:

Bourbon-laced cranberry and grapefruit with light honeyed richness and a faint touch of clove spice.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Dale DeGroff in New York City, USA.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tailor Made contains 171 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
14.78% alc./vol. (14.78° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

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G. M. Genovese

28th September 2022 at 14:25

I didn't have cranberry on hand, so I subbed with a 3:2 blend of homemade grenadine-to-lime, and I think it came out close enough. The honey is rather prominent. My take here resulted in a sort of richer version of a Scofflaw maybe? Decent swill, nonetheless. (28 Sep 2022, 10:25a)

Sally Morgan

12th June 2022 at 19:00

Balanced and more complex than you’d expect. Don’t be put off by the honey syrup its easy to make in the microwave - 15ml of honey (1 tbsp) plus 5 ml (1 tsp) water in something like an egg cup - about 30s but keep an eye on it

Doug Charnock

14th June 2020 at 02:42

Cranberry juice is a little ambiguous. Most would interpret it as cranberry juice cocktail with water and sugar added to make it drinkable. We used pure cranberry juice and it wasn’t too sweet. Could have even used a tad more Falernum.