Name: Entwistle's Error
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 75 ml Tonic water

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Thomas Henry Tonic Water

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Entwistle's Error contains 234 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
11.03% alc./vol. (22.06° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Avery Garnett 2y

Do you want an aged rum & tonic? Then look no further. It tastes exactly like you'd expect ED8 and tonic to taste. Unfortunately it's not particularly special. It lacks a bite as the caramel notes of the rum and the quinine bitterness pull in different directions.

Jeffrey Kroosz 4y

Wife and I like it. Appleton Signature. Stock tonic water. C'mon summer.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Very good. We decided to amp up the rum and used some pot-stilled black Jamaican and overproof Navy Rum. It was great.
Curious, was this named after the actress Peg Entwistle from the 1930s who was also known as the Hollywood Sign Girl. Does anyone know the genesis of the name for this coctail?

Tristan Entwistle 4y

I made this tonight, and I'm curious where the "error" came into it - delicious!

J W-S Premium Member 5y

This is lovely, used Schweppes I'm afraid but delicious none the less. Very quaffable!

Sandip Gohil 6y

I ended up making this with Havana Club 7 and Fever Tree Mediterranean tonic and it came out very, very nice.

As ever, this site is great because if you have leftover lemon juice, you can just use the advanced search and see what else you can make with fresh ingredients.

Great way to discover new drinks

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Many thanks for your kind words. The site is an ongoing work-in-progress / labour-of-love.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 6y

Fever Tree 'Refreshingly Light' Premium Indian Tonic Water did not cut it in this recipe. Had to add approx 1/2 tsp 2:1 sugar syrup. Lovely with the El Dorado 8, though. Always looking for ways to use it.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Agreed. Although I found it needed 7.5ml top 10ml sugar syrup and I worry that I left this out when I originally uploaded this cocktail. Many thanks for bringing to my attention.

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Entwistle's Error

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