Name: Golden Boy
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 35 ml Gin; 15 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Americano bianco; 6 drop Grapefruit bitters

Golden Boy
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Glass:

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₆ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Americano bianco
6 drop	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish:

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Americano bianco - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Gin-forward, this pale golden cocktail is delicious as either an aperitivo or digestive. If you don't have a circa 47% alc./vol. citrus-forward gin to hand, perhaps try with 30ml London Dry Gin and 10ml citrus gin.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe create in 2023 by bartender Michele Di Firmo and his colleague Walter Boero at Dal Medico bar in the centre of Verona, Italy. Their original recipe calls for 35ml Tanqueray No. Ten Gin.

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
25.91% alc./vol. (25.91° proof)
16.9 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

16th October at 14:41

The choice of gin is the deal make or break here, especially of it’s (relatively) higher proof. I only had Four Pillars navy strength available (as one does) and it slightly overpowered but definitely cut through the richness of the apricot and Cocchi and showed the native finger lime to very good effect. Appealing bitter sweet goodness.

Mookie

7th October at 00:28

I was expecting this to be a little too sweet for my liking, so I used 2 dashes of grapefruit bitters and a fat 1.25oz of gin (St George Valley gin) - I loved it, definitely sweet but really well balanced. Full disclosure though, I used pear liqueur instead of apricot.

John CARR

16th October at 14:43

Using this as a chaser to the Poire des Benedictine I can definitely see that.

John CARR

26th March at 13:42

Very nice tho didn’t quite work me, perhaps due to the gin? Ended with 35 Le Tribute (fairly citrusy) and 10 botanist. Added half a dozen drops of lemon juice to sharpen it up. Summer very nice, delicate and fragrant notes at play. Might need to retry with some actual Tanq 10 next I have some.

John CARR

4th May at 14:10

With Roku gin knocked the apricot back to 10ml and 8 drops Bitter Truth grapefruit bitters hit the sweet balance spot for me.

G. M. Genovese

24th December 2024 at 20:41

Holy frijole is this good. With the specific specs I, of course, made this as prescribed. Brands used: Drumshanbo gin, Giffard Abricot du Roussillon, Cocchi Americano, Bitter Truth grapefruit bitters... It all just clicked. Superb. (24 Dec 2024, 3:41p)

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