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Devil's Cocktail

Name: Devil's Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Tawny port; 45 ml Dry vermouth; 7.5 ml Lemon juice

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (14)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Cockburn's Tawny Eyes Tawny Port
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Devil's Cocktail contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
12.75% alc./vol. (25.49° proof)
15.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Tawny port, Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Hugo R. Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for Mixed Drinks (2nd Edition).

DEVIL'S COCKTAIL
½ Port Wine
½ French Vermouth
2 dashes Lemon Juice
Stir well in a mixing glass with cracked ice, strain and serve.
Hugo R. Ensslin, Recipes for Mixed Drinks, 1917

Review

Lemon predominates with the richness of port fighting to be heard.

Variations/similar cocktails

Robert Vermeire's 1922 Devil's Cocktail

Cockburn's Tawny Eyes Port 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$31.99 $2.56 per cocktail Cockburn's Tawny Eyes Port image

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Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Philip Cook Premium Member 6d

It's good, but honestly I don't think it's better than drinking port neat

Michael Z 2y

Appears to be exact same drink as "Devil",
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/638/devil

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Many thanks for bringing this to my attention, Michael. I’ve repurposed the other page to Robert Vermeire’s 1922 Devil’s Cocktail and added links between the two pages.