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Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec)

Name: Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Between The Sheets No.2 (brandy + gin + triple sec) contains 162 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
25.86% alc./vol. (51.72° proof)
21.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

In his 1939 The Gentleman's Companion (Volume II), the globetrotting drinks writer, Charles H. Baker, recounts an afternoon escaping "Arab-Jewish riots... in Christianity's own heart city." Baker found respite in the "almost Egyptian-looking sanctum" of the luxurious King David Hotel where he enjoyed a Between the Sheets made by a bartender named Weber and copied the recipe from his bar book.

Weber's Between the Sheets recipe calls for equal parts "cognac, Cointreau, dry gin and lemon juice," and Baker says, "Like the American Side Car, and other truly worthwhile cocktails this invention is totally sound, and is already quite famous throughout the Near East." Tellingly, at the back of his book, where he talks about ingredients, for Cointreau, he says, "it is one of the six favourite liqueurs of the world, but is indicated in several very important cocktails like between the sheets."

Review

It may be the Between the Sheets No.3 (with brandy and light rum) that's most identified with this suggestive cocktail's name but as with The Godfather films, it's the first and second Between the Sheets that are perhaps worthy most acclaim.

Variations/similar cocktails

The modern-day Between The Sheets is light rum and cognac-based, but three versions span this cocktail's history:
No. 1 - dry gin + light white rum + triple sec + lemon juice
No. 2 - brandy + dry gin + triple sec + lemon juice
No. 3 - brandy + light white rum + Triple sec + Lemon juice

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$33.99 $1.03 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Cointreau L'Unique 375ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$21.99 $1.33 per cocktail Cointreau L'Unique image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 301 cocktails
$14.99 $0.05 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 7w

For us, of the three, this is the one. Lovely balance. Rum, a star elsewhere, is a strange interloper here.

Matt Thompson 7w

First impression is of a very mature version of a Long Island Iced Tea. Good combination of sweet and tart; quite enjoyable.

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 1y

Excellent with terrific balance of sweet and sour. The mix of gin and brandy (I used Armagnac de Montal VSOP) blended nicely without either overly predominating. My only comment would be that as much as I am a fan of saline, I only used one drop. I would say that for me that was a good decision as there wasn't really an abundance of sour or bitterness that needed taming and I believe one drop is all that wasI needed to act as a general flavour enhancer.

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