Name: What The Hell
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Apricot (brandy) liqueur; 20 ml Vermouth - Dry; 5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lime wedge

How to make:

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

1 1/2 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Giffard Abricot du Roussillon liqueur
2/3 fl oz	Dry vermouth
1/6 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
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Review:

Gin and dry apricot. On the 4th of September 2022, I reduced the volume of my previous recipe by 25% and while doing so I omitted sugar syrup from the recipe to be more in keeping with classic versions of this cocktail which call for lemon juice. (I prefer lime.) My previous recipe: 60ml (2oz) gin, 30 (1oz) apricot brandy, 22.5ml (¾oz) dry vermouth, 7.5ml (¼oz) lime juice, 5ml (1 spoon) sugar syrup.

Variant:

Webster Cocktail

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

WHAT THE HELL
Cocktail Glass
Stir
3/4 oz gin
3/4 oz dry vermouth
3/4 oz apricot flavoured brandy
1/4 oz lemon juice
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of What The Hell contains 167 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
24.39% alc./vol. (48.78° proof)
22.6 grams of pure alcohol

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