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Tip Top Cocktail

Name: Tip Top Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Dry vermouth; 22.5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
³⁄₄ fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

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 Tip Top Cocktail contains 144 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
19.02% alc./vol. (38.04° proof)
15.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Recipe adapted from Albert S. Crockett's 1935 Old Waldorf Bar Days.

TIP TOP
Four dashes Benedictine
Two dashes Angostura Bitters
One jigger French Vermouth (Stir)
Serve with Lemon Peel
Someone, Somewhere, 19??

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Review

The lemon zest twist is essential to the fine balance of this vermouth (note; no spirit) cocktail.

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Benedictine D.O.M. 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$37.99 $1.15 per cocktail Benedictine D.O.M. image

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

$1.22 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 33 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Egg McKenzie 29w

i made this with 2 1/4 oz vermouth to 1/2 oz benedictine and i did NOt regret it

Louis 1y

I like this one even more than the Poet's Dream. It's more gentle and honeyed.

Alexandre Perron 4y

As simple as effective, An unexpected discovery.

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