Name: Blinker
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 60 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 15 ml Grenadine syrup; 6 drop Grapefruit bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Blinker
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
2 oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
6 drop	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Back in the 1940s, in his book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Embury said of this cocktail, "One of a few cocktails using grapefruit juice. Not particularly good but not too bad." Depending on your ingredients: choice of rye whiskey, freshness of grapefruit juice, and particularly use of homemade pomegranate juice grenadine, Embury may have underestimated this cocktail's potential.

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Variant:

Hawksmoor's Blinker

History:

First published in Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 The Official Mixer's Manual.

Blinker
1 Jigger Rye Whiskey
1-1/2 Jiggers Grapefruit Juice
1/2 Jigger Grenadine
Shake well with ice and strain into glass.
Patrick Gavin Duffy, 1934

Nutrition:

One serving of Blinker contains 169 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
13.82% alc./vol. (13.82° proof)
16.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Avery Garnett

6th March 2024 at 17:43

Embury got this spot on. It's /fine/, but it's also...well, it's rye and grapefruit and that's it.

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John Hinojos

13th November 2022 at 01:30

I agree with David Embury. Found the rye gets a bit lost and it was much sweeter than I was expecting. Being that we use tree ripened pink grapefruit, our fruit can be a bit sweeter than those picked a little on the less ripe side. Would maybe reduce the grenadine or increase the rye. Still enjoyed the cocktail.

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