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Hearst Martini

Name: Hearst Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Orange bitters; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin (from freezer)
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Martini glass

Prepare

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

Method

STIR 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 Hearst Martini contains 168 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
22.56% alc./vol. (45.12° proof)
20.6 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Jacques Straub's 1913 Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks. Supposedly a favourite of hacks who worked for the American newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, and believed to have been created at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. It is nicknamed "The Disgruntled Journalist", perhaps in reference to the Journalist cocktail.

HEARST COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
2 Dashes Orange Bitters.
½ Jigger High and Dry Gin.
½ Jigger Italian Vermouth.
Serve.
Jacques Straub, Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks, 1913

Review

A Fifty-Fifty Sweet Martini with orange and aromatic bitters.

AKA: The Disgruntled Journalist, Hearst Cocktail

Variations/similar cocktails

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Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

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Comments & Discussion

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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 24w

Very pleasant, made more enjoyable by how easy it is to remember, and to recite to uneducated barmen.

John CARR Premium Member 17w

Have a banana

Bruno Foisy 34w

Empress 1908 gin, cocchi vermouth, Fee bros's orange bitter and cranberry bitter, blood orange zest!😋

Werd Bmocsil 1y

Bombay Sapphire, Carpano Antica, and Fee Bros Oranbe Bitters. Good, but I might try an Old Tom gin next time.

Morten Carlsbaek Premium Member 3y

A fine, easy to make cocktail. Gin in disguise.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 27w

Yes, and we are tempted to say a Martini in disguise.

Martin Schwartz 4y

Very nice cocktail. It’s almost too easy to drink. The bitters add to the depth of flavor while countering the sweetness of the vermouth.

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