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Blinker

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

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (39)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Retro Optic Coupe 21cl

Prepare

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

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Blinker contains 169 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
13.82% alc./vol. (27.64° proof)
17.8 grams of pure alcohol

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

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.

Variations/similar cocktails

Hawksmoor's Blinker

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Comments & Discussion

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Avery Garnett 2y

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

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

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.