Name: Smoke and Mirrors No.2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Peated malt whisky; 20 ml Apricot liqueur; 5 ml Amaro (e.g. Averna); 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Peated single malt whisky

2/3 fl oz

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur

1/6 fl oz

Amaro (e.g. Averna)

2 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Smoke and Mirrors No.2 contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
31.7% alc./vol. (63.4° proof)
22.4 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Mookie Premium Member 27w

I was requested to make a drink with peated bourbon (Kings County Distillery) and landed on this - also had to use peach liqueur instead of apricot. very tasty!

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 32w

A relatively subtly-peaty Islay (Laproaig Oak Select) seems to fall short in this. Cynar might not be sweet enough either to cut through enough. I'm mostly tasting the Giffard Abricot du Roussillon, with a smoky top note. I initially made this forgetting the Ango, then dropped two dashes in the glass and swirled it with my finger. Big difference! The Ango is key.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

That smell reminds me of Hot Tamales and I love it!

Jakub Piechowicz 2y

Drinking this while watching "The brotherhood of the bell", excellent crime/mystery/drama made for tv with Glenn Ford. Definitely good cocktail for that kind of the movie and good movie for that kind of cocktail. No amaro at the moment, but really good, dry black walnut liqueur with plenty of herbs as a substitute.

Hunter Newsome 3y

It's impressive how the other ingredients balance the Islay scotch so well, however it ends up tasting more like stomach acid than anything else.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 4y

Apricot liqueur is something I prefer more in theory than in practice. However this recipe balances it beautifully.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 4y

Had to try this having just aquired a bottle of Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot Liqueur. Alas, I was out of Ramazzotti. Dare say, I was able to pull this off with a bit of Meletti and some Tempus Fugit Gran Classico. Strongly recommend if you like Islay Scotch. Ramazzotti's on the shopping list.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Happy to report that image now displaying is correct.

SERGI RUIBAL 6y

Check the photo- it’s not correct for this cocktail

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Embarrassingly your right. This is the image that belongs to another cocktail, Smoke and Mirrors by the Bon Vivants. We'll search out the correct image. Thanks for pointing out.