Name: Fibber McGee
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 5 ml Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed); 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
1/6 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Review:

Delicately flavoured, bittersweet grapefruit and sweet vermouth fortified with gin.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in David A. Embury's 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

FIBBER McGEE
A Sweet Martini with a dash of Angostura and about 2 teaspoons of grapefruit juice to each drink.
David A. Embury, 1948

Nutrition:

One serving of Fibber McGee contains 143 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
24.09% alc./vol. (48.18° proof)
19.3 grams of pure alcohol

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