Name: What The Hell
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Apricot liqueur; 20 ml Dry vermouth; 5 ml Lime juice

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur

²⁄₃ fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of What The Hell contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
22.97% alc./vol. (45.94° proof)
22.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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.

Comments & Discussion

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Peter M Premium Member 2y

I'm curious about the reason behind the name of this one.

Paul Holdsworth Premium Member 4y

Like a superstrength Webster Cocktail. Wallop!
But I'm gonna try a Webster and see if the bigger citrus component improves things - I'm finding this just a bit too toothsome.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

Thanks, Paul. I've just revisited and re-jigged this recipe to reduce its volume by 25% and while doing so I have removed the sugar syrup to make it drier. I've also added a link to the Webster Cocktail.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

What The Hell. Thought I’d give it a re-try after all these years. It’s an old-school recipe so is generous in its proportions. Dust of those large Martini glasses and fill them with What The Hell.

Kjell Eriksson Premium Member 6y

I bought my first cocktail recipe book in the early nineties, and this drink was in it. I think the book was called something like 1001 Cocktails. A coffee-table kind of tome. The What the Hell in the book differed in proportions, as I recall, but it was so long ago that, having had the Difford variant for pre-dinner cocktail today I am not able to perform a comparative analysis. But then again, what the hell...