Name: King Street Negroni
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Island single malt; 30 ml Red bitter liqueur; 10 ml Vermouth alla vaniglia; 10 ml Ginger liqueur

King Street Negroni
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Island single malt Scotch whisky
1 oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
¹⁄₃ oz	Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth
¹⁄₃ oz	Ginger liqueur

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Garnish: Skewered thick cube of fresh orange flesh

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over a ice ball or large cube).

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Vermouth rosso alla vaniglia (e.g. Antica Formula) - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

A Scotch single malt whisky-based Boulevardier with a touch of ginger spice. Or, perhaps consider this a Negroni for a winter's eve by the fireside. Either way, it's tasty!

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2016 by Günter Windhorst at his Windhorst Bar in Berlin, Germany. Günter says this was his 36th riff of the Negroni , and his original recipe uses 40ml Talisker 10-year-old, 30ml Campari, 10ml Antica Formula, and 10ml Giffard Ginger of the Indies liqueur.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
25.96% alc./vol. (25.96° proof)
23.4 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

1st August 2024 at 12:01

Reading the comments wasn’t sure about this, but I think it works! Had to do a bit of subbing: no carpano so mixed Cocchi Storico, punt e mes and Dolin rouge roughly equally. Fresh ginger syrup (fresh ginger juice 50/50 with rich syrup). Penicillin meets Blood and sand? Just need an open fire!

G. M. Genovese

13th June 2024 at 21:57

An off-putting Boulevardier. Made the above recipe, then a transitional take, 45-20-10-15 the specs, and I spit that out. The one that pushed it in the right direction was a 40-10-15-20 stir. Still not there... St George Baller, Campari, Carpano Antica, Barrow's.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson

2nd February 2024 at 23:09

Peated whisky kills this. Will try again with a different whisky to let the other ingredients join in.

Steve Beedle

24th January 2024 at 19:29

I made mine with a Glenkinchie, a Johnnie Walker style whisky which I think did the trick nicely. Maybe needs a bit more Ginger, but has all the elements of a Negroni.

Yury Demidov

21st January 2024 at 17:28

I agree that Laphroaig overwhelms everything else (just a bitter aftertaste, but no hints of ginger). Perhaps I should give it another try with a less smokey whiskey or play with proportions.

Yorey C

16th January 2024 at 03:22

made it with laphroiag. that may have been a mistake cuz the ginger didnt show up at all

Frederic D.

16th January 2024 at 02:59

Based on ingredients alone, this drink should be near the top of my favorite list. As it stands though, I might need to play a little bit with the proportions, as all I really got was bitter Talisker, with nary a trace of ginger or vermouth. TBC.

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