Name: Clan MacLeod
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Peated malt whisky; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 7.5 ml Ginger syrup; 50 ml Lemonade

Clan MacLeod
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Torabhaig Peated Single Malt Whisky
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Ginger Syrup
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Lemonade

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Garnish: Lemon slice wheel

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with lemonade.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A peaty Whisky Collins with orange and ginger.

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History:

Created in May 2023 by yours truly. I named this riff on the Auld Alliance after the MacDonalds, the clan whose stronghold was Knock Castle, better known as Caisteal Chamuis (Castle Camus), now the name of the peaty whisky I based this cocktail on.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Clan MacLeod contains 180 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
14% alc./vol. (14° proof)
19.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Chris Dimal

12th June 2023 at 11:14

I don't know what to make of this. I just used Chivas Regal 12 Year Old, and it was... something. Extremely tangy and intense, yet quite sweet. The tiniest hint of smoke and barley was there, but it sort of clashed with the rest of the stuff at the same time. Also, it seems like you made it with a peated blended malt, whereas your preferred blended malt Scotch is Monkey Shoulder, so that's a bit odd. No doubt a proper a Blended Malt may be way better, whatever it may be.

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Simon Difford

12th June 2023 at 16:00

Thanks, Chris. Well spotted - I'd selected the wrong malt on my ingredients drop menu. Now corrected - as you say should be Caisteal Chamuis heavily peated malt.

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