Name: Ancestor
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Scotch whisky; 10 ml Pear liqueur; 15 ml Ginger wine; 15 ml Maple syrup; 5 ml Lemon juice; 75 ml Soda water

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Glass:

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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Giffard Poire William liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Ginger wine
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Maple syrup
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda.

Garnish:

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Looking at the recipe, with pear liqueur and a whopping 15ml (½oz) of maple syrup, I thought it would be overly sweet. However, as you'd expect from a Satan's Whiskers cocktail, it's beautifully balanced and refreshing and harnesses Scotch whisky's affinity for pear, ginger, and lemon.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Ollie Sagerström Blom at Satan's Whiskers in Bethnal Green, London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Ancestor contains 185 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
9.5% alc./vol. (19° proof)
16.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Pj Vesey

19th July at 15:58

A beautiful, delicate, light cocktail for whiskey lovers and those still waiting to succumb to whiskeys charms. This cocktail was the reason I went to the bar where it was first made, Satan's whiskers.

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