Name: Cantilever
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Amaro (e.g. Lucano); 15 ml Gin; 15 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1 oz	Lucano amaro
¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina

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Prepare:

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

How to make:

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

Garnish:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rye whiskey underwrites this delicious digestivo/late-night sipper with waves of delicately bittersweet herbal favours.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2020 by Craig Eliason, a Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a keen cocktail aficionado. Craig created this cocktail for the Society of Architectural Historians' 80th Anniversary Celebration. Fittingly, Craig used Amaro Lucano Anniversario edition.

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
27.85% alc./vol. (27.85° proof)
25.1 grams of pure alcohol

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