Name: Double Barrel Winchester
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Old Tom gin; 10 ml Navy strength gin; 10 ml Elderflower liqueur; 15 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 7.5 ml Ginger syrup; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Double Barrel Winchester
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₃ oz	Hayman's Navy Strength Royal Dock Gin
¹⁄₃ oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Ginger Syrup
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Double old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of Union Jack skewered parasol, half grapefruit slice wheel and 2 slices of ginger.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.
Garnish with parasol skewered grapefruit slice and ginger slices.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Ginger spice and citrus freshness shine in this quadruple gin-based, contemporary classic Tiki cocktail.

You may want to split the first ingredient into 22.5ml (¾oz) of two different gins if available.)

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History:

Brian Miller created the Winchester cocktail while working at Death & Co. in 2009 and named it for Angus Winchester, then Tanqueray brand ambassador. The Winchester was based on a trio of gins: Hayman's Old Tom Gin, Martin Miller's Westbourne Strength Gin and Tanqueray Gin. Then, a decade later, Brian put his Double Barrel Winchester on the menu at The Polynesian in New York City with four gins: 15ml (½oz) Greenhook Ginsmith Old Tom Gin, 15ml (½oz) Perry's Tot Gin, 30ml (1oz) Millar's Westbourne Strength Gin, and 30ml (1oz) Monkey 47 Gin.

For reasons of sobriety and cost, my adaptation uses measures around a third smaller than the original recipe. If you'd prefer larger measures, reach for a Tiki mug and try:
30 London dry gin
30 Citrus-forward 47% alc./vol. gin
20 Old Tom gin
15 Navy strength gin 57% alc./vol.
15 Elderflower liqueur
22.5 Lime juice
22.5 Grapefruit juice
10 Grenadine
10 Ginger syrup

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Nutrition:

One serving of Double Barrel Winchester contains 235 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
19.12% alc./vol. (19.12° proof)
24 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Peter Barth

26th April at 23:35

Heavy on the ginger - packs a punch, twenty-something with the gin. Will also try the original tiki-sized once sober

John CARR

22nd March at 13:07

Whoa - givin’ it both barrels. I say this is worth the faff, including the four-way split gins. And yes I did go through balancing all the ingredients individually and, yes, it does pay off..! As a gin fan, this works better for me than most of the rum-based tikis, good as they are. Very easy drinking indeed, dangerously so!

Arild Bjørgo

10th November 2023 at 19:09

I used different Gin's from the recipe above (Bareksten Dry, Old Tom and Navy, and even the elderflower was from Bareksten), but I followed through with Monkey 47 (the complexity is superb). And as of lately, I have started using a "Grenadine" liqueur instead of the syrup, with good results; more depth and body. I find this Cocktail to be one of the better Gin Cocktails out there. A must- try if you are a Gin lover!

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