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Blue Bird

Name: Blue Bird
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 25 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 20 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Orgeat syrup

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (36)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
²⁄₃ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

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

Method

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

Garnish

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Blue Bird contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
18.1% alc./vol. (36.2° proof)
20.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) — Nuts

History

Thought to have been created in the late 1950s in Montmartre, Paris, France.

Review

A blue-rinsed, orange washed, gin-based cocktail that benefits from being sweetened with almond rather than plain syrup.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 15 cocktails
$33.99 $2.27 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Bols Blue Curaçao 750ml - makes 30 cocktails
$14.99 $0.50 per cocktail Bols Blue Curaçao image

Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$14.99 $0.20 per cocktail

$2.97 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 15 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Lynn Garvie 2y

I wasn't expecting much from this cocktail, but it over-delivered.
The Orgeat adds a richness to what might otherwise be a basic sour.

Jeff Miller 5y

Tasty, perhaps a little sweet for drinking multiples (my wife and I split one and it was a good amount). I'd probably increase the lemon juice a touch and similarly decrease the orgeat if I make it again.

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