Meat Hook

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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1⁄2 oz Punt E Mes vermouth amaro
1⁄3 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1⁄6 oz Torabhaig Peated Single Malt Whisky
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry

How to make:

STIR first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass. FLOAT peated whiskey.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 9/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10
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Review:

This delicious but assertively spirit-forward late-night sipper is more approachable with the added dilution that comes with serving on-the-rock(s) in a small old-fashioned glass.

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History:

Adapted from a riff on the Red Hook with a splash of peated whiskey, created in 2014 by Shaun Layton at L'Abattoir restaurant in Vancouver, Canada.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.7 standard drinks
  • 31.96% alc./vol. (31.96° proof)
  • 24 grams of pure alcohol

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Laurie Pycroft’s Avatar Laurie Pycroft
12th July 2024 at 21:25
Pleasantly surprised to find this drink in the Diffords library, but the date is incorrect - Shaun Layton served me one of these in June 2013 while I was visiting Vancouver. As I recall he had created it quite recently at the time.
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Ian Fenton’s Avatar Ian Fenton
29th June 2024 at 08:57
Pleasant Manhattan, but surprisingly dominated by the tiny amount of Ardbeg 10 I used. Not quite sure what I think of it - I expected it to be more complex than it was.
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Tuber Magnatum’s Avatar Tuber Magnatum
19th January 2024 at 23:40
Lovely drink and agree the potency tamed by serving on the rocks.
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