Name: Bitter and Twisted Nail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 15 ml Honey herbal liqueur; 15 ml Red bitter liqueur

Bitter and Twisted Nail
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Blended Scotch whisky
¹⁄₂ oz	Honey herbal liqueur (e.g. Drambuie)
¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A Rusty Nail riff to appeal to Negroni lovers.

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History:

Created in 2010 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room in London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Bitter and Twisted Nail contains 182 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
29.13% alc./vol. (29.13° proof)
21.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Anonymous

14th January 2022 at 01:47

For me, this cocktail have the heat of the scotch whiskey with subtile notes of some very sweet caramel cashews nuts mixe with a little bitterness like the pith of a grapefruit skin. The taste is harmonious but a bit subtil for my taste. It still is a great but sweet cocktail.

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