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Damn It Jimmy
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Damn It Jimmy
Photographed in an Urban Bar Verdot Small Martini Glass 12.5cl
| 1 1⁄2 oz | Akashi-Tai Daiginjo Genshu sake chilled |
| 1 1⁄2 oz | Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old) |
| 1⁄4 oz | Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry chilled |
| 1⁄4 oz | Strucchi Dry Vermouth chilled |
| 1⁄6 oz | Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) |
How to make:
- Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
- Prepare garnish of skewered blue cheese stuffed Fragata Green Olive.
- STIR all ingredients with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
- Garnish with a skewered blue cheese stuffed olive.
Allergens:
Recipe contains the following allergens:
- Fino sherry, Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Strength & taste guide:
No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Review:
When made with Bacardi Carta Blanca (as it originally was), this delicate and so very slightly sweet cocktail has complex notes of blue cheese with faintly salty sherry and herbal dry vermouth complexity. It's perhaps the best cocktail I've created.
History:
Created in August 2008 by yours truly. While pondering what to call it, the track I was listening to ended and one of the artists exclaimed, "Damn it, Jimmy", to his fellow band members, expressing how good the track was. My cocktail was named! Stupidly, I didn't record the name of that artist or, indeed, the album.
Until December 2024, the paragraph above finished, "Do you know it? That was when fellow Discerning Drinker Toby James commented, "Found it..." with a link to Another Day (Revised) on The Album Leaf. The studio chatter:
"Damnit Jimmy, that was some
Something you did really smart
Yeah
So funny. Try one more time, just one, after this, just one"
Many thanks, James. Now I have an explanation for the name.
Nutrition:
One serving of Damn It Jimmy contains 175 calories
Alcohol content:
- 1.6 standard drinks
- 20.14% alc./vol. (20.14° proof)
- 22.1 grams of pure alcohol
- More Aperitivo/aperitif cocktails
- More Savoury (e.g. Bloody Mary) cocktails
- More Short & stirred cocktails
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The Album Leaf—Another Day (Revised).
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https://open.spotify.com/track/0VkskxmBFPFSevPNOg9HgX
It may not be for everyone (apparently some strange people don’t like sherry, dry vermouth, or sake) but to my taste it may be the most perfect cocktail. THANK YOU for this epic invention.
I don’t often have fino sherry so I usually resort to Dry Sack. But strangely I now prefer the nuttiness to the fino. Plus this makes for a great excuse to try more aged rum. But I keep coming back to the Bacardi Superior.
Replace the syrup with Maraschino (or up it a bit) and you have a damned good Sakura, Jimmy. Add Cherry for garnish and consider to stir in a bit of the syrup from the cherry jar for a cherry blossom pinkish hue.