Name: Fairbanks No.1
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Apricot liqueur; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 10 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Grenadine syrup; 10 ml Chilled water

Fairbanks No.1
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Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1 oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
¹⁄₃ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered cherry.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Apricot liqueur dominates this cocktail but dry vermouth, dry gin, lemon juice, and dilution save it from excessive sweetness.

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Variant:

Fairbanks No. 2

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

FAIRBANKS COCKTAIL. (No.1)
1 Dash Lemon Juice.
1 Dash Grenadine.
1/3 Apricot Brandy.
1/3 French Vermouth.
1/3 Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass, with a cherry.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Fairbanks No.1 contains 184 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
17.11% alc./vol. (17.11° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Rob

6th April at 22:52

Yummy and interesting! It's pretty cool how the dry vermouth does something different at the end of the sip than bitters would have. It's a new sensation and really neat.

Caspian Berggren

27th February at 17:38

Not at all as sweet as I thought it would be. I came in with prejudice but no, it's actually quite lovely. It's like a floral apricot candy with body from the gin and vermouth. I thought the lemon wouldn't be able to control the sweetness but it actually does. Solid 4.5/5 for me.

Jake S

5th September 2024 at 13:41

Lovely. Marie Françoise Apricot Liqueur, Beefeater, Dolin, tempered ice. I am happy with the lemon part as indicated, adding more would be a detriment I think. The way it is, the apricot shines through robustly. It's a fine lingering sipper, not a guzzler.

Calvin Grant

1st April 2024 at 03:20

This one's delightful! The apricot and grenadine play well together amongst balancing bitter and sour support.( I used Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot.)

Jeremy Harrold

19th April 2023 at 16:09

A nice drink where the sweet/tart flavour of the apricot liqueur blended instead of intruding (for me).

Michael Z

14th January 2023 at 02:58

Wonderfully colourful drink. I tried it with "Tempo Arandano" blueberry gin, and it is divine.

Miguel Perales

25th August 2022 at 23:33

Made it as posted and interestingly, it pushed my sweetness tolerance limits. Second time I doubled the lemon juice (1/3 oz or 10 ml) and it was definitely more balanced. The Apricot does shine well in this cocktail.

Simon Difford

26th August 2022 at 18:38

Agreed. Thanks, Miguel (and Florian). I've upped the lemon juice accordingly.

Willem Klopper

23rd February 2022 at 16:57

The subtleness of the apricot makes the drink, perfect hot summer sun downer

John Hinojos

9th December 2021 at 00:23

This was great. Love the hint of apricot. Would do this one again.

Florian Ruf

27th November 2021 at 16:22

Very good cocktail, we love it. I doubled the lemon juice and gave a little bit more Grenadine to balance that. This let the Apricot brandy step back a very little bit. Delicious!