Name: Black Widow's Bite
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 22.5 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 30 ml Orange juice; 2 dash Orange bitters

Black Widow's Bite
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
³⁄₄ oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
1 oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange juice and black salt rim .
RIM glass with black salt (moisten outside edge with orange juice and dip into salt).
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN strain into chilled and rimmed glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Essentially a Screwdriver blued (not quite blackened) by blue curaçao and served straight-up.

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History:

Named after the character played by Scarlett Johansson in eight Marvel movies, including two which also starred Jeremy Renner. In 2023, Renner featured a Black Widow's Bite cocktail in a promotional video for delivery firm Drizly. His version of this cocktail was made with orange rather than blue curaçao and based on Sweet Grass Vodka, a brand he co-owns.

Nutrition:

One serving of Black Widow's Bite contains 128 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
17.16% alc./vol. (17.16° proof)
16.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Ross McGill

9th March at 19:09

The black salt definitely gives the drink a sharp start! Great for parties for a dramatic look; add an orange slice

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Helge Syversen

31st January at 16:09

I used Tanquerey gin 46% , followed the recipe as best as I could.
Sorry to say i had runned out of Icelandic black salt,so my Nick&Nora glasses had sugar rims.
Must say this cocktail deserves 4 stars

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Ryan Harrold

11th July 2024 at 11:24

I made this cocktail exactly as the recipe states and then afterwards followed up by making the same cocktail again, but with 15ml of blue curacao instead of 22.5ml and found it to be less sweet but for the better personally, which also for garnish I think it’s just meant to say a black salt rim and not orange juice and black salt rim

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