Name: Bill Chandler
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 10 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 10 ml Orange Curaçao; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Bill Chandler
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Photographed in an UB Retro Coupe 1920 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
¹⁄₃ oz	Jamaican aged blended rum with funk
¹⁄₃ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
0.08 oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Rum character shines in this punchy and fruity Daiquiri variation.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in G. F. Steele's 1934 My New Cocktail Book. Despite his warning, in pursuit of deliciousness, I've strayed a little away from the exact percentages and even ingredients stipulated Steele's recipe.

'BILL' CHANDLER COCKTAIL
42% Bacardi Rum
30% Lemon juice
12% Jamaica Rum
10% Cointreau
6% Grenadine
This is one of the best recipes for cocktails included in this book if carefully made, but great care must be taken to follow the recipe exactly, or it will not turn out well.
G. F. Steele, My New Cocktail Book, 1934

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Nutrition:

One serving of Bill Chandler contains 174 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
20.11% alc./vol. (20.11° proof)
19.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Nathalie O'Flynn

15th March at 17:43

This was tonight's aperitif cocktail. Initially I thought it was a bit tart and needed a couple of ml of sugar syrup but as I was drinking it it was getting better and better. Had to use Appleton instead of Myers and then found out I can get Myer's rum again. It disappeared for a few years whilst the owner sold the brand to Sazerac. I wondered why I could not get it anymore and kept searching and searching and tonight I was lucky, my normal supplier also stocks it.

Miguel Perales

8th November 2023 at 21:36

Very citrus forward, and as John said, not overly sweet. Very enjoyable if you like more citrus sour than sweet cocktails.

John Hinojos

16th September 2023 at 00:07

Unlike many other rum cocktails, this is not sweet. Nicely balanced and very refreshing. Being big rum drinkers, not sure why we have not had this cocktail before, but it will not be the last time.

Steve Erwood-Heijselaar

15th September 2023 at 18:51

Exquisite. If that's the last cocktail we get the chance to enjoy sat outside in the sun at the end of the working week this year, then it was a good way to end. (Of course, I'm nevertheless hoping for another sunny Friday evening next week, and another drink on my terrace, but I'm not going to push my luck!).

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